Portland Cocktail Week returns for more drunken, delicious fun!
Clare Gordon
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Bushel and Peck Set to Charm the Pants Off MLK
A great new coffeehouse and bakeshop has just quietly opened in Northeast Portland. After a summer of building up loyalty out of a farmers market booth, Bushel and Peck is now beautifully established in a spot off MLK and Failing (neighboring Ned Ludd in Cafe Brioso’s old spot). Don’t miss their house-baked goodies, which are […]
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Cocktail of the Week Premiere: The Cafe Racer
I drink a lot of cocktails. The good ones are boozy, as interesting and complex as any solid dish, and I admire our local wealth of craft cocktailers who put an astonishing amount of time and energy into balancing these liquids (at the same time having to deal with an often picky or downright disrespectful […]
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Saturday Market Should Always Be This Boozy
I don’t think I’ve gone to the Portland Saturday Market on purpose since high school. There’s somehow always something better to do than look at hippies and jewelry that I may want, but shouldn’t buy—and “something” is often drinking. Apparently Saturday Market has learned how to read my mind (a secret I wish they’d share […]
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A Bad Week For Local Business
Well, Portland, your last chance to visit two local eateries-of-sorts is rapidly approaching: this week will see Kin, an Asian-inspired restaurant on NW 14th, and Northwest Sweets, a candy shop in the heart of the NW 23rd shopping district, close their doors for good. I stopped in for a bite at Kin last Saturday, as […]
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Visiting BC Burlesque Sensation at the Bossanova Tomorrow
Tomorrow evening’s Moonlight Masquerade at the Bossanova Ballroom has some serious talent going on. Lydia DeCarllo of Vancouver B.C. will be visiting for the October 6th show in addition to it being Charlotte Treuse’s farewell performance. Lydia Decarllo is regarded as “Vancouver’s International Burlesque Darling,” while Charlotte Treuse has been a Northwest staple for years, […]
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Our House Benefit Dinner Series Begins Again Next Week
Reservations are now available for the 20th Anniversary season of Our House‘s benefit dinners, which kick off next week with a (sold-out) pizza-themed meal with Bruce Carey and Via Tribunali. Our House is a longtime Portland nonprofit providing healthcare, housing, and other services to low-income people living with HIV/AIDS, and every Fall through Spring they […]
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Another Portland Book Release
‘Tis the season of publishings for Portland food writers. Karen Brooks just presented her history of Portland’s rising food scene (replete with a release party on the rooftop of the Wieden+Kennedy building in the middle of Feast), Diane Morgan and company offered three new cookbooks at their signing at Powell’s last week, and now Laurie […]
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“The Wurst” Now Open on E. Burnside
A dance studio held down the space on the ground floor of the Bossanova Ballroom building for twelve whole years, and the end of said era apparently arrived quietly and recently. I noticed when Viscount moved to a larger space between Beaker & Flask and Rum Club on SE Sandy Blvd, but only just checked […]
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Nerdy Nudity Coming Our Way
Remember when the wonderful community of Blogtown pollers made our own Erik Henriksen go see boobies for his “worst. night. ever?” I get the feeling if it had been Critical Hit Burlesque’s upcoming Geeklesque feature at the Star Theater, there would be no illusions of the experience being anything but the best. Gamers rejoice… this […]
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Live-Tweet Action on Feast Portland Starting Tonight!
Feast Portland begins in a mere two hours, and we promise that the Mercury Dining twitter account will be a frenzy of activity over the next few days to bring you photos and updates of this early culinary Christmas. Starting with the (nearly sold out!) Sandwich Invitational and ending with exclusive after-party coverage, we’ll bring […]
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Non-Feast Event Options for the Weekend
In case you haven’t heard, Feast Portland is this weekend, which means celebrity chefs will be swarming into town, media people will probably gain ten pounds, and if you were lucky and/or had the foresight to get a ticket before many of the events sold out, you’ll get to be there. If not, don’t cry… […]