Chad Walsh This week, the team behind the balmy tropical-themed Hey Love—Aaron Hall, Emily Mistell, Nicholas Musso, and Sophie Thomson—rolled out a brand new lunch menu, and just in time for the return of the cold, cold months. Hey Love chef Roscoe Robeson has built a midday menu comprising sides, salads, and main dishes (baby […]
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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Your Weekly Food and Drink Wrap: Positive Press Gone Wrong?
Google Maps The biggest food story of the week didn’t originate in Portland, or this week. In November of last year, Thrillist writer Kevin Alexander published his account of visiting 30 cities to devour 330 burgers to see which burger reigned supreme in all these United States. His top pick? Our very own Stanich’s. Today, […]
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Your Weekly Food and Drink Wrap: Shutterings, Relocations, and Storytelling à la Mode
Nolan Calisch This week, the Mercury’s arts section published a story about storytelling (and ice cream). The takeaway is that Jared Goodman, of the ice cream pop-up Morgan St Theater, has been awarded a RACC grant to put on six ice creamy and composed dessert-paired shows detailing what it’s like to almost lose and to […]
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Storytelling and Snacking: Jared Goodman’s Dessert Pop-Up, Morgan St. Theater, Celebrates Jewish History
Morgan St. Theater celebrates Jewish history with storytelling and delicious desserts.
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Storytelling and Snacking: Jared Goodman’s Dessert Pop-Up, Morgan St. Theater, Celebrates Jewish History
PHOTOS BY NOLAN CALISCH If you’ve been paying attention to the Portland food scene over the last several years, you’ve probably heard about Morgan St. Theater. The ice cream pop-up pairs courses of inventive ice cream desserts with storytelling, Dr. Seuss read-offs, puppeteering, and even flamenco dancing. On paper, the pop-up reads like a Portlandia […]
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Your Weekly Food and Drink Wrap: Oprah Says “Vote!” So VOTE
PBJ’s Grilled opens brick and mortar. Mercury Staff You know how most of you vote with your dollars when picking a place to eat or drink? Well, now’s the time to vote with your VOTE, and we’re especially looking at you, service industry people. We know—and you know—that the industry suffers from political apathy for […]
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PBJ’s Grilled’s Nut Butter Burgers Are Back in the Pearl
A year or so after closing her entire fleet of PBJ’s Grilled food carts, restaurateur Keena Tallman is back in the business of making crowd-pleasing nut-butter- and fruit-jam-laced sandwiches and burgers. Her shiny new brick-and-mortar opened on Saturday at 611 NW 13th, as the folks over at Eater quickly pointed out this morning. The 40-seat, […]
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Food Guides, Restaurant Closings, and Semi-Savory Cocktails: Your Weekly Food and Drink Wrap
PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON LEE | MODELLING BY PIPER KI (SLU AGENCY) | HMU BY STORMY BRADY | ART DIRECTION BY KATHLEEN MARIE Buckle up, because there’s lots of food news out here in these parts. First, though, did you know that chef Ignacio Mattos will be signing copies of his new cookbook at Tusk on […]
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Deepak Kaul’s Bhuna, and His Unlikely Path into the Restaurant World
Deepak Kaul wasn’t supposed to go into the restaurant industry. And, as a middle-class Indian American, he definitely wasn’t supposed to go into the Indian restaurant industry. “Cooking as a profession was never an option,” Kaul says. “That’s how Indians roll. We don’t do that. Not middle-class Indians.” His family, he says, had other plans […]
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Restaurant Openings, Closings, and Events: Your Weekly Food and Drink Wrap
Queue opens for business. Mercury staff What’s happening? Lots! Aviary just made its once-a-month lobster roll nights a weekly Wednesday night thing. The Willamette Valley’s Domaine Serene is throwing a “Harvest in the City” party next Saturday (October 27) to celebrate its new pinot noir release at its still newish downtown tasting room (and it’ll […]
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Clay’s Smokehouse Extinguishes Its SE Division Smokers
Minh Tran From the ICYMI Department, Clay’s Smokehouse has closed… again. If you remember, the longtime barbecue joint shuttered its longtime SE Division digs in the summer of 2016, only to reopen at the end of 2017 in a new spot that was just a block away. On Tuesday afternoon, the owners left this note […]
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Smoothie News: Greenleaf Goes Brick & Mortar in the Pearl
Five years ago, Matt Trenkle and Garrett Flynn operated a fresh juice and smoothie cart called Greenleaf Juicing Company in the southeast corner of the Plaid Pantry parking lot on NW 23rd. The cart is gone—as is the Plaid Pantry—but that’s because Trenkle and Flynn went brick-and-mortar with Greenleaf, opening a spot in the Pearl […]