Facebook | Feast If you’re within spitting distance of Twitter this week, you’re well aware that the Feast food festival (officially known by its corporate handle Bon Appétit Presents Feast Portland food festival) kicks off this Thursday at 6 pm with the Sandwich Invitational over at the RoseQuarter Commons. Presently, nearly every Feast event has […]
Chad Walsh
Chad Walsh writes about Portland’s food scene and other stuff, too. He makes a mean carbonara and an even meaner chicken larb, and he’ll never muddle fruit in your Old Fashioned because he knows you deserve better.
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Feast is Bringing Out Some Ringers for the “Feast for All” Gorge Wildfire/Houston Flood Fundraiser
The four-day Feast food festival will wind down with a fundraiser for those whose lives have been upturned by Hurricane Harvey and the Columbia Gorge wildfire Facebook | Feast The Bon Appétit-sponsored Feast food festival has just added an event to its already jam-packed schedule of events, but organizers say this one’s been arranged for […]
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Drinks Enthusiast Karen Locke’s New Book is the Key to Portland’s Distilling Scene
Karen Locke So-Min Kang Photography Karen Locke is pacing herself. When I met with her to talk about her new book—High-Proof PDX: A Spirited Guide to Portland’s Craft Distilling Scene—she was careful to take only a small sip in between her answers. In fact, by the time we paid the bill, she’d barely touched her […]
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Eat Out and Help Out Harvey Victims
Bollywood Theater Chris Onstad Do you think you might feel more compassion for the communities surrounding Houston than the current President of the United States? Trick question! Of course you do! And some of your favorite restaurant owners feel the same way, which is why they’re donating proceeds to various charities that are looking out […]
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Afrodaddy’s Jazz Club is Willing Itself into Reality
The Brothers Blanchard: Kwame, Tyson and Stephen, Jr. at what they hope will soon be the site of Afrodaddy’s Jazz Club Carmen Blanchard In the age of internet fundraising, it’s no longer unheard for people to take to GoFundMe or Indiegogo to raise money to cover their food cart or restaurant startup costs. But not […]
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David Machado’s Tanner Creek Tavern Sets a September 12 Opening Date
As Eater reported earlier this week, next month restaurateur David Machado will open Tanner Creek Tavern at 875 NW Everett in the Pearl District, making it his fourth operational restaurant and his sixth over all. He owns Nel Centro downtown and Altabira and Citizen Baker in the Lloyd District. Prior to that he owned and […]
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The Waiting Game: Why Restaurants Shouldn’t Seat Your Large Party When Most of You Are Late
RUSSELL TAYSOM Recently, I noticed people taking to Twitter to offer their two cents on restaurant seating policies. Namely, is it okay for them to make your party wait until everyone else arrives? If you’ve never been a server or line cook, this policy probably seems unnecessarily punitive because it appears to punish the people […]
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Why a Restaurant Shouldn’t Have to Seat Your Large Party When Most of It is Late
Why a restaurant shouldn’t have to seat your large party when most of it is late.
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Paletaz PDX Push Cart is Selling the Mexican Desserts You Need
Paletaz PDX owners Silvia and Veronica Cuestas and Yesenia Gallardo at their August 10 open house. Chad Walsh If you recognize the name Yesenia Gallardo, it’s probably because you heard that her food company, Poda Foods, won top prize at 2016’s PitchFest with their plan for making a nutritional cricket powder to be used in […]
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Night Light Lounge is Changing Hands
Courtesy Night Light Lounge Fear not, Night Light Lounge loyalists. While owner Christopher Gutierrez confirms that he and co-owner Hope Beraka are indeed selling their southeast corner bar on Clinton after a 13-year run, the lounge will remain very much the same as it is now, from the drinks and the dishes to the staff […]
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What Portland—and the Local Media—Can Learn from the Racist Sandwich Podcast
What Portland—and the Local Media—Can Learn from the Racist Sandwich Podcast