Last week I spent a few days rounding up some truly excellent food carts, but asking the photographer to track down and shoot each one during their disparate hours was too tall an order. Fortunately, I have a few phone snaps to show you what I was talking about. (Except for La Sangucheria, whose two […]
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Don’t Forget the Little People
Six Carts Worth the Weather
Food carts to visit—during the winter months!
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Pate in Portland
Feastworks’ “Country” category pate. Truly old-school, showing an unmistakable affection for tradition and craft. The Northwest Food and Wine Festival was held on Saturday, and for the second year running they asked me to judge their pate competition. Thirteen entrants provided beautifully-composed works of labor-intensive charcuterie, and six local food journalists, veteran chefs, and purveyors […]
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Cooking the Books
A Complete Holiday Table with Portland’s Most Beloved Chefs
Cooking signature recipes alongside Portland’s most beloved chefs.
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Hacking the Holidays
The Mercury Food Issue Offers Sneaky Shortcuts for Your Holiday Dinner Table
The Mercury Food Issue offers up sneaky shortcuts for your holiday dinner table.
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Restaurant Dresses Up as Chicago’s Alinea
“Free-range Amish chicken,” juiced and shaped via pressurized ISI siphon. If you thought your “Zombie with a Hoagie In His Belly” costume took top honors this Halloween, think again. This Chicago restaurant, Real Kitchen, dropped all pretense of being unpretentious and “dressed up” as the world’s biggest bastion of molecular modernist dinner theatre: Alinea. And […]
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P’s & Q’s Market
The Corner Store at the Center of Woodlawn
P’s & Q’s Market embodies a new wave of growth in Woodlawn.
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David Lynch’s Quinoa Recipe
It really doesn’t need much more clever of a headline than that, does it? dangerousminds.net This is how David Lynch thinks you tell people to cook recipes. Ultra-rare footage of David Lynch cooking quinoa has been unearthed, so if you have thirteen spare minutes today, and you absolutely must watch every grainy frame of footage […]
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What The Critic Saw: Dar Salam
Last week’s review of Dar Salam found yours truly enjoying the comforts of home-away-from-home as a central theme. Not my home, and not my comfort food, but it was somebody’s version of both, and the soul put into them communicated something genuine. I’ll take genuine over $500 leather seats and a sommelier who knows a […]
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For a Town That Loves Fireworks
Intense Flavor, Rustic Feel at Roman Candle
Roman Candle is one of the year’s best new casual dining spots.
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What the Critic Saw: Angel Food and Fun
Last week’s review of Angel Food and Fun has been a personal project for over a year. I love that the place is a one-man band, that the food is distinctly regional (and done by a chef from that region), and that it’s in the middle of nowhere in unincorporated Cully (sorry Cully residents, but […]
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The Genuine Article
Dar Salam: Hospitality in the House of Peace
Alberta’s Dar Salam serves Iraqi food in a comfortable atmosphere.