Chad Walsh

MARLOWE DOBBE Ezra Caraeff was at an impasse. As the owner of three popular Portland bars–the Old Gold, Paydirt, and Tough Luck–he came to the realization that his businesses were creating a lot of unnecessary waste. His main culprit? Single-use plastic straws. When he crunched the numbers this past January, Caraeff estimated that he, his […]

Megan Nanna What’s up? Lots! Today kicks off the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, which means Kells is throwing down a three-day party at its downtown location and a two-day party at its NW brewery, the latter of which comes with Irish dancers, fortune tellers, and an international brewers festival. Starting Monday, the Mercury is celebrating […]

ILLUSTRATION BY MARLOWE DOBBE Ezra Caraeff was at an impasse. As the owner of three popular Portland bars–the Old Gold, Paydirt, and Tough Luck–he came to the realization that his businesses were creating a lot of unnecessary waste. His main culprit? Single-use plastic straws. When he crunched the numbers this past January, Caraeff estimated that […]

Besaw’s botched burglary Natalie Behring The first full week of March sounded like crickets—if all the crickets had died. However, there was some food and drink news of note… The Mercury reported that Kachka’s teaming up with The Nightwood Society to throw a big family style seder soiree on March 31. Our food critic sang […]

Kachka Aaron Lee We’re one week into Portland Dining Month, which gives us all the chance to visit a whole bunch of restaurants to take advantage of their monthlong three courses-for-$33 deals. But one of its participants, Kachka’s Bonnie Morales, is offering a new one-night-only seder at month’s end, and she’s teaming up with the […]

LARISSA BOARD It’s not every month that the national media parachutes into town to report on a local cookbook scandal, but last week was not a regular week. The Washington Post reported that the International Association of Culinary Professionals named Joshua McFadden’s Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables as its cookbook of the year. […]

Courtesy Travel Portland It’s March! That means Travel Portland’s once again throwing its annual Portland Dining Month, which also mean that you can swing by approximately 100 restaurants over the next 31 days and enjoy a three-course dinner for the very reasonable price of just $33. Here are five unsung winners currently serving plum deals […]

Johnny Nunn Kimberly Whipps, Barefoot Photography A little over three years ago, chef Johnny Nunn and his wife Kristina opened Verdigris, a cozy little French-inspired restaurant nestled right next door to the Cajun-inspired Acadia on NE Fremont. But now Nunn is zeroing in on a new concept—Corzetti—and, as you can probably tell by the name, […]

Nolan Cash In 2014, we were all sad when Ecotrust decided to stop publishing Edible Portland after eight years. We were all glad when Edible Seattle publisher Alex Corcoran stepped in to return it to the presses two years later. And then we were all sad again when he too decided to cease publishing the […]