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RYAN REYNOLDS The proud new owner of Portland’s Aviation Gin Twitter These are strange days. We wake up angry because we live in the dumbest timeline in history and go to bed inspired because teenagers and Robert Mueller are stepping the F up. There’s so much national and international news to process that it’s hard […]

Erica Perez Miss chef Anh Luu’s Vietnamese-Mexican phorrito mashups? Then strap on your feeding bibs, because she’s bringing them back for a pair of Wednesday night pop-ups at her Cajun-and-Creole-with-a-Vietnamese-twist of a restaurant in the Kearns neighborhood. Don’t know what a phorrito is? Read Andrea’s Damewood’s excellent description, or Just imagine every ingredient found in […]

Courtesy Garden Monsters Kyle Hulings, the owner of the Garden Monsters food cart parked on Division and 50th, says he just picked up the keys for a new brick-and-mortar in part of the old Pono Foods space in the Hollywood neighborhood at 4110 NE Sandy on the Broadway side of the building. This will be […]

Canopy restaurant and skylit subterranean “winter garden” Canopy, a boutique lifestyle hotel by Hilton, should open sometime this spring, according to general manager Mark Strelcheck, and when it does, it’ll be anchored by a restaurant, also named Canopy, which will be overseen by former Lincoln and Ray chef de cuisine Sara Woods. The 10-story 153-room […]

Big’s Chicken is on the move. Michelle Mitchell First, the good news. We got word that the owners of Piazza Italia plan to open a bar/de facto waiting room next door to its Italian restaurant sometime this summer, and that Taco Pedaler is opening its second brick-and-mortar in the old Pollo Norte space in Concordia, […]

Coming Soon: Taco Pedaler II Melanie McClure Melanie McClure got her start in the local food scene in 2011 by pedaling her Taco Pedaler-branded taco trikes to street fairs around town. By 2015, she opened her first brick-and-mortar on NE Broadway in Sullivan’s Gulch. And now, she tells the Mercury, she’s opening a second Taco […]

Piazza Italia/ Steven Hoyt When he opened Piazza Italia with the late Gino Schettini back in 1999, Kevin Gorretta says he quickly saw a service snag in his soon-to-be popular Pearl District Italian eatery: On busy nights, he and his staff often sent would-be guests to nearby bars with the hope they wouldn’t bail after […]

Roe’s delights Aaron Lee In general, food news often tends to be either “Yay, this new place is opening!” or “Boo, another beloved restaurant bites the dust!” But this week, media outlets were on top of hard food news with alleged abuses and I’ve-had-it striking workers. But there was one ray of silly hope: We […]

Help save the Laurelthirst building! Courtesy Laurelthirst This week, we reported that Beaverton’s getting a 31-cart food cart pod in the form of BG’s Food Cartel, which opens today if you’re hungry for a taste. You should also dust off that old ambrosia recipe, because we also pointed out that East Portland Eagle Lounge is […]

The city of Beaverton is getting a pretty big food cart next month, and it’s from the offspring of the family that brought us Beaverton Foods’ horseradishes and mustards. Dean Biggi, the grandson of pioneering horseradish farmer, Rose Biggi, is opening BG’s Food Cartel, a 31-cart food pod on 4250 SW Rose Biggi—the street named […]

Do you like ambrosia, aspics, or Jell-O? How about bingo, trivia, and raffled prizes? Then the Mid-Century Portland Potluck Party, which goes down at the East Portland Eagle Lounge on Hawthorne Boulevard on Sunday, February 11, has your name written all over it. Here’s how it works: You and a bunch of your friends (and […]