$5 Burger Is Larger Than Foreground French Fries Suggest. This announcement is part of our 2013 Burger Week (Aug 5-11), where we team with local restaurants and vendors to bring you $5 gourmet hamburgers! White Owl Social Club, the rock and roll restaurant, bar, venue, and million-acre-outdoor-patio brainchild of the unstoppable guys behind Sizzle Pie, […]
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Burger Week: Rockin’ Robyn’s $5 Buffalo Burger
Buffalo, somehow beefier than beef itself. $5. This announcement is part of our 2013 Burger Week (Aug 5-11), where we team with local restaurants and vendors to bring you $5 gourmet hamburgers! Rockin’ Robyn’s Sassy Burger proves that Burger Week has continued to inspire cooks to new heights. Robyn’s Buffalo Burger is: Ground buffalo patty […]
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Burger Week: Club 21’s $5 Classic Perkin Burger
The infamous Perkin Burger, named after “a grumpy prick.” This announcement is part of our 2013 Burger Week (Aug 5-11), where we team with local restaurants and vendors to bring you $5 gourmet hamburgers! Club 21, which seems to have been the one-story, step-saver castle of a weird little old man who liked owls, privacy, […]
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Burger Week: Ate-Oh-Ate’s $5 Spam Musubi Burger
The Spam Musubi Burger, only $5! This announcement is part of our 2013 Burger Week (Aug 5-11), where we team with local restaurants and vendors to bring you $5 gourmet hamburgers! Ate-Oh-Ate continues the theme of blowing the doors off the $5 burger concept with their Spam Musubi Burger, which looks like something you’d normally […]
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Patron of the Arts
Castagna: In the Kitchen, Looking Out
Castagna’s place in the puzzling local definition of fine dining.
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Burger Week – TILT’s $5 Big Tilt
The Big Tilt. Only $5. This announcement is part of our 2013 Burger Week (Aug 5-11), where we team with local restaurants and vendors to bring you $5 gourmet hamburgers! If the first burger prototype from Burger Week is any indication, our participating restaurants are blowing the doors off the $5 burger concept. TILT has […]
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BURGER WEEK 2013!
Click for more details! Announcing Burger Week, August 5-11! The Mercury has teamed with some of your favorite bars and restaurants to offer you specially-designed, limited-time, premium burgers for only FIVE DOLLARS. Here’s how it works: We selected our favorite burger spots, offered them meat from Nicky USA, and asked them to come up with […]
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Supper in Siberia
Old Salt’s Young Empire
Old Salt Marketplace roars out of the gates, but needs to lighten up on its namesake.
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Wild About Game Tickets On Sale Now
Nicky USA, purveyor of meats to every Portland restaurant on your bucket list, has begun ticket sales for its 2013 Wild About Game celebration. Wild About Game is a legendary all-day party, demo hall, booze fest, fifty-course gourmet snackathon, chef’s competition, and industry shoulder-rubber. Talk with purveyors of every protein under the sun, as well […]
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It’s July O’Beer-Thirty Somewhere
Hemingway, playing with beer during a cold snap. (Courtesy Algonquinsidetable.com) It’s hot. Too hot to work on the bike. Too hot to prune the blackberry bush that is steadily absorbing the yard tools. Too hot to rephrase press releases about beer. Especially that last one. So, here are three promising beer-centered events for the coming […]
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Today in Cart Burgers: Retrolicious
Cast-iron griddled with a solid crust No matter how much snail soup I promise I’ll try, no matter how many entrails our chefs bake into pies, when I’m off the clock I’d rather just follow my heart and have a burger. Having worked through most of the restaurant burgers in town, I’ve been exploring the […]
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Remember Dad’s First Fondue?
Do you remember that one special day, watching on as your father—just a boy of about nine, in his short pants and white suede Bucks—tried his first fondue? Neither do I. But it’s likely it happened at a place like The Matterhorn, whose menu I came across at a jumble sale this Spring. The address […]