Chad Walsh

Courtesy Donut O Rama Greg Slauson wanted to make donuts. He was an early Voodoo Doughnut adopter and saw that with hard work you could turn donut-making into a living. So in the late fall of 2011, he opened up a wintertime-only food cart called Donut O Rama. He considered it a trial-by-fire run where […]

Either/Or Mercury Staff This last week was a busy one, with the Mercury <a href="https://www.portlandmercury.com/last-supper/2018/07/18/21381507/eitheror-is-a-very-good-barrestaurantcoffee-shop“>reporting that Ro Tam’s new North Williams coffee shop, Either/Or, is also a great restaurant for rice bowls, breakfast tacos, and cocktails. We <a href="https://www.portlandmercury.com/lush-life/2018/07/18/21381627/small-is-beautiful-for-oregons-winemakers“>took a look at Fossil & Fawn, Stedt, and Hanson Vineyards, which are three of this state’s […]

Meg Nanna We live in an era where every day seems to last as long as a month, and where things that happened two weeks ago—even good things—seem like they went down in 2017. Well, one of those good things—Ben Bui’s Short Round, which we reviewed last fall—has, indeed, celebrated a milestone: It turned one […]

Courtesy Kure Juice Bar Instagram Today Kure’s Nate Higgins confirmed that he and business partner Nick Armour will open a new juice bar storefront in the Pearl next month, the company’s sixth overall. Higgins says the menu at the Pearl will mirror that of his and Armour’s West End Shop, but with one key twist: […]

Fish & Rice chef Jesse Sweet Christine Dong Strap on your reading hats because this was a very busy week. The Mercury <a href="https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/07/09/21185669/brown-hope-is-launching-blackstreet-bakery-on-north-mississippi-this-month“>reported that Brown Hope, the organization behind Reparations Power Hour, is launching Blackstreet Bakery at the Mississippi Street Fair this Saturday. What is Blackstreet Bakery? A black-led soon-to-be weekly vegan pop-up bakery […]

Kalé, circa 2010. Kalé, the SW Morrison Japanese comfort food spot from Makoto Yoshino, shuttered at the end of 2017. Yoshino knew he’d be saying goodbye to the space (the building is being redeveloped), but he thought he’d have secured a new location before he closed its doors. A year-and-a-half later, Kalé is finally returning […]

Fish & Rice chef Jesse Sweet. Christine Dong Sushi is often a spendy dish, but it doesn’t always have to be that way. According to Peter Hermann you should be able to drop in for lunch and eat two rolls—and a cup of soup and a side salad—and get out by paying no more than […]

Cameron Whitten Brown Hope, the recently minted organization with the goal of making justice a lived experience for Oregon’s Black, brown, and indigenous people, is launching Blackstreet Bakery, a vegan pop-up bakery with a mission of is own: to offer economic opportunity and livable wages to Black folk while honoring the historic presence of Portland’s […]

Breadbox at Prost! Marketplace Natalie Behring This week, the Mercury visited the new Prost! Marketplace food cart pod to see what its many vendors are up to. The verdict? A lotta good. Bloodbuzz is creating excellent craft cocktails, Breadbox is offering egg McMuffins, and you’ll soon get to savor tacos from a Nodoguro chef when […]

notokpdx.org To borrow a somewhat thorny and oftentimes counterproductive phase, we know that when we see something, we say something. But what if we don’t know what we’re looking for exactly, or what we should say should we find it? That’s where Not OK PDX comes in. This women-run group comprises Portland bartenders, social workers, […]

Vikesh Kapoor For a long time, Von Ebert Brewing owner Tom Cook didn’t consider himself a creative person. He was mainly a numbers guy with a long career in financing fast-casual and fast-food restaurants. He liked his job, but missed working with and mentoring people, so when a mutual friend introduced him to the folks […]