Chris Onstad

A bunch of men got together and cooked a tasty hamburger. I was having lunch with a gigantic lawyer who likes sex the other day, and we had happened to stumble in to Ate-Oh-Ate, the Hawaiian joint on East Burnside at 24th, next to where Alder used to be. I’d been aware of the place […]

Deceptively simple wording. It was too dark to take good, inobtrusive photos at the Ración pop-up I attended two weeks ago, which is a shame, because the care Anthony Cafiero puts into his food’s visual appeal is nearly without equal in the city. Nevertheless, here’s a bit of what I found on my camera the […]

The Oregon Brewers Guild Fresh Hop Fest is going down this Saturday at Oaks Park, 12-8pm. Fresh-hopped beers are brewed during the autumn harvest using hops that have never been dried, so they showcase unique flavors that can’t survive the dehydration process. It’s a great opportunity to educate your beer palate, do your last outside […]

A dish I will call “Carbonara Alfredo.” It is no fun, no pleasure to write a negative review. People put their lives, their hearts, their fortunes into these places; calling foul in a public forum is a valuable service, but there is no joy in spreading the negativity. Some places are just out of whack, […]

Bon Appetit’s Feast Portland was, by measure of crowd enthusiasm and industry participation, an unprecedented success. Thousands of food enthusiasts from here and abroad descended upon the city’s west side for three days of demos, classes, lectures, contests, parties, after-parties, and post-after-parties. The atmosphere was electric, as the energy surrounding this nationally-promoted event proved to […]

Chop Butchery & Charcuterie’s artful salumi display Wild About Game is: an annual game meats convention, mighty after-party, chef’s competition, tradition, fifty-course sampling menu, and day-long boozefeast of Roman proportions. Dozens of vendors, from local charcutiers to South Carolina quail farmers, gather to showcase their products at the largesse of Portland’s only distributor of wild […]

Applewood smoked six-hour ribs. Meet BBQ‘s delicious pork spare ribs are noteworthy for their firm but moist texture, deep, blackened bark, and clear applewood smoke flavor, but it’s their crispy tips that make them distinctly Kansas City-style. What are crispy tips? Think of the last inch of a perfectly-roasted chicken’s wing: the bit you can […]