Trigger is off to a solid start—but needs to cut the fat.
Chris Onstad
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A Hot Dose for Your Brass Monkey
Click to view. Click on the video above—filmed at the Rum Club—if you’d like to see a winsome barkeep pour you a virtual cocktail while you’re still in your morning shorts. Bavarians have their radlers, subjects of the Queen have their shandies, and here stateside we enjoy the occasional liter of brass monkey. No matter […]
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Hot News From The World of Snack Chips
These are the latest chips. This world is a perpetual gauntlet of opportunities, if only we can recognize them for what they are. Last Friday, malnourished and foul-tempered, I wandered the aisles of the Oak Grove Fred Meyer—cursing the walls, the air, and my fellow man—looking for the Chase Bank mini-branch within. Like a dove […]
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June’s Bugs
Ambition, Enlightenment, and… Hamburger Bread?
June swings with a big bat, but needs to up its average.
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Spanish Graft
Bar Vivant Gets the Tapas Bar Right
Bar Vivant: a tapas bar that actually works in the local landscape.
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Boozy Time Capsule from 1913 Inventory List
1. Milk pail time capsule housing, F.L. Carlsen Dairy, Oregon City 2. Wine, France. 3. Tinctures of cocaine and strychnine, popular soda fountain additives 4. Commode handle, Agamemnon’s Palace 5. Pabst Brewing “shortboy” prototype, approx 8 oz. 6. Standard packing dunnage (then and now) 7. Restroom key fob, The Lonesome Chaparral Club 8. Vanilla scraping […]
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Na Zdrowie to Bar Dobre
Polish Classics Find Footing on Hawthorne
Polish classics with practically no competition.
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The Century Club
In Which We Discover a Mercury Time Capsule from 1913—and We Bury a “Drinking” Time Capsule for Future Employees in 2113!
In which the Mercury buries a drinking time capsule for future employees to discover in 2113!
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Russian Tapas?
Zakuski! is apparently Russian for “we only serve craft vodkas of the American Northwest.” Dozens of press releases come across the Mercury‘s food desk each day, but for some reason this one from Wildwood stuck out as worth sharing. “Zakuski”—which apparently means “Russian small plates”—is the theme of an upcoming party at their digs, where […]
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Donut Week Continues: Pip’s Original
Pip’s Original, now open on NE Fremont at 47th (between Stanich’s and Smallwares), serves housemade chai, Extracto coffee, drinking chocolate, and, most distinctively, hot, fresh little Pike Place-style donuts. Sweet and airy, they’re offered in both Cinnamon Sugar and Raw Honey & Sea Salt flavors. We went through our half-dozen somewhere between signing the receipt […]
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Guy Fieri Tastes His Own Donkey Sauce
It is unlikely that Guy’s Flavor Juice is Vegan-Friendly. A lesson in defensive domain registration: Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar, a pitch perfect send-up of Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar (official), does the damage a generation of SNL writers never could. Read in awe as this talented and mysterious satirist tempts you with a deep […]
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The Magic Is in the Product
Blue Star Fills Hole in Local Doughnut Scene
Blue Star Donuts: a cut above… well, you know.