New Year’s Eve is a stellar night for a prix fixe dinner, so grab your favorite dining companion and pad your stomachs for a long night filled with champagne. Half of the restaurants around town are offering incredible menus for relatively reasonable prices, while activities for the after-hours abound. Here’s a few highly recommended things […]
Clare Gordon
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Last Weekend to Visit Downtown’s Bar Central
Marking one of the first closures of our relatively new wave of craft cocktail bars around town, Central announced earlier this month that they would be closing their downtown bar as of New Year’s Day, 2013 with limited hours leading up to January 1. This means you officially have three more nights to drink at […]
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Black Bike Cafe Now Open on SE 28th
This is what it looks like when an Alberta staple tries on Southeast Portland: The owners of Northeast’s Black Cat Cafe, an offbeat coffee shop that also offers a surprisingly well-rounded bottled beer selection, cigarettes, and only an occasional fear of getting mugged mid-cappuccino, have just opened a new cafe just South of East Burnside […]
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Radar Now Scoring on N Mississippi
I’ve never been so charmed by a sports bar. I’m not a football fan. I like basketball okay, and baseball can be entertaining for 10 minutes at a time, but I’m in the habit of actively avoiding the combination of sports and drunk dudes except on special occasions. And I’m generally too lazy and not […]
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FREE Holiday Burlesque Tickets!
Big Time! Burlesque’s 2012 finale is coming to the Bossanova Ballroom this Friday, December 14, in the form of a Mistletoe Peepshow, bringing holiday cheer through the ever-effective medium of nudity—and we’ve got two free tickets to give away for the occasion. Orchestre L’Pow, the sensational live burlesque band, will be playing classic yuletide tunes […]
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Verde Cocina Now Open in Former Kin Space
Once you enjoy the privilege of munching on cheerful, yellow tortillas cooked to order from fresh masa, it’s hard to even recognize their bagged relatives as actual food matter. Very few Mexican eateries around town offer the former delight, and Verde Cocina numbers among their finest. Now grilling up healthy, farm-to-table meals on NW 14th […]
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Cocktail of The Week: Scents & Subtle Sounds
Despite being a mouthful to order, this is perhaps my favorite “seasonal” drink yet this year. The menu shift that almost every bar and restaurant seems to synchronize with any anticipated change in weather can be exhausting—seasonality is one thing, but I’ve been known to crave rye whiskey in August and Champagne concoctions year-round. I […]
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Cyril’s Wine Bar Now Open in SE
I’m a fan of this year’s urban winery boom—spawning a relatively new industry of casual yet beautifully designed wine bars for after work, a light dinner, or evening indulgence, I have yet to be disappointed in any way by this trend. Somehow Portland’s European attitude of enjoying entertainment primarily in the form of consumption has […]
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Local and Highly Unsustainable
Portland Chefs Tell Tales of Excess
True tales of decadent excess from Portland’s finest chefs!
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Holiday Cocktail Recipes
Umm… How Else Do You Survive the Season?
Portland’s best bartenders share their favorite holiday drinks!
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Don’t Throw Away that Cheese!
Fromage Fort or, Frankenstein’s Muenster
This old cheese: The decadence and decay of fromage fort.
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Destination Festive
Promising Events for the Holiday Season
Festive upcoming foodie events!