Food is food—so hire a same-sex friendly caterer.
Chris Onstad
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Portland Food Adventures Announces Two Events
[Note: upcoming event dates at bottom] Chris Angelus, the creator and tireless force behind the long-running Portland Food Adventures dinner series, recently invited me to one of their posh events. Departure, Gregory Gourdet’s slick Kubrick-wants-dinner restaurant above the Nines Hotel, was something like the twentieth dinner PFA has held, and many of the patrons were […]
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Checking in on Mr. Tasty
Gorham’s NoPo Landmark Turns Two
Tasty n Sons turns two!
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Get Your Fruity (Beer) On
PFBF The right fonts can make fruit seem tough. The Portland Fruit Beer Festival is upon us, and it is so serious this year they have even arranged a street closure (7th and East Burnside). That’s not easy, nor I imagine inexpensive, and given all the PR I’m getting from their camp, I’m predicting a […]
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Cart Profile: Burger Guild
FASCINATIONN’ Burger Guild, north-facing fortification. I had gone to get another two-dayer Italian sub at Shut Up and Eat in the A La Carts Food Pavilion but, with them closed for a week and my patience for a lunch solution not that strong, I walked two door-flaps down to Burger Guild, a Spinal Tap-esque cart […]
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Help: Patio and Outdoor Dining Roundup!
Our friends at Little Green Pickle PR sent a memo about their restaurant clients who feature patio and outdoor seating. Ever in search of a generative device or crowdsourcing trotline, I took the bait, and decided to seed what I hope will be a well-populated list of outdoor eateries in which to enjoy the precious […]
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Kitchen Keeper
Ferran Adrià’s The Family Meal Cookbook Belongs on Your Shelf
Ferran Adrià’s The Family Meal belongs on the shelf with your best cookbooks.
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Local Gyro
Finely Tuned Middle Eastern Classics at Cedo’s
Cedo’s offers finely tuned Middle Eastern classics.
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Bollywood Star
Elevating Portland’s Indian Offerings
Bollywood Theater elevates Portland’s Indian offerings.
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Cart of the Week: Shut Up And Eat
Like everyone who eats continuously for twenty-four hours a day (breaking only to go home, take the empty trash can to the curb, and get back in the car), I stop at a lot of food carts. Mediocrity abounds; cardboard doner kebabs with perma-frigerated gray baba ganoush…fries like sticks of Jell-O…dumplings from CostCo steamed for […]
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Author Slings Cart Cookbook, Bunk Bar, 5/22
The Truck Food Cookbook We Are Talking About. Five-time James Beard Award nominee John T. Edge has just released The Truck Food Cookbook, a 304-page, glossy, full-color tour of major US metropolitan food carts. Portland, naturally, features prominently among the listings, with profiles of—and dishes from—11 local carts. Household names Whiffies, Potato Champion, Grilled Cheese […]