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This Week In Portland Food News: Grace Cafe Opens, The Cart Blocks Pod Arrives, and The Nacheaux Team Plans a Speakeasy

The new restaurant Grace Cafe mixes influences from Korean, Middle Eastern, North African, and Japanese cuisine. Grace Cafe This week, a Michelin-starred restaurant alum from San Francisco and a former Top Chef contestant open Grace Cafe, the long-awaited Cart Blocks pod has its grand opening, and the Nacheaux team plots an upcoming speakeasy called Bourbon […]

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This Week In Portland Food News: Magna Kusina Reopens, Dinger’s Deli Closes, and Nico’s Ice Cream Arrives

Chef Carlo Lamagna’s acclaimed Filipino restaurant Magna Kusina is back and serving halo-halo topped with house-made ube ice cream. Magna Kusina This week, Magna Kusina makes a triumphant return, Nico’s Ice Cream brings New Zealand-style “real fruit” ice cream to Mississippi (just in time for National Ice Cream Day), and the vegan deli Dinger’s Deli […]

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15 Pizza Places Worth Trying in Portland

Baker Ken Forkish’s pizzeria Ken’s Artisan Pizza has received national attention for its wood-fired pies. Ken’s Artisan Pizza Is Portland “America’s best pizza city”? Modernist Pizza authors Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya seem to think so. According to a much-circulated Bloomberg piece published last week, the two experts, who sampled over 400 pizzas across the country while writing […]

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