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Posted inFood Issue 2026

Eat Up! It’s the Mercuryโ€™s Food Issue!

Featuring a guide to Portland’s top food carts, the best soft serve in town, food day trips, restaurant reviews, and more
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If youโ€™re not hungry already, prepare to feel your tummy grumbling by the time youโ€™re through with the Mercuryโ€™s 2026 food issue! Grab a free print issue at one of 500+ spots across town, and eat up while itโ€™s hot. (Want to make sure you never miss one of our monthly print issues? Subscribe here and get […]

Posted inFood Issue 2026

Portlandโ€™s Top 20 Food Carts

Where to get Mexico City-style street food, Korean-Italian handmade pasta, giant warm gooey cookies, and more.
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What follows is one of the many articles in the Mercuryโ€™s 2026 Food Issue. Find a print copy here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to you here, and if youโ€™re feeling generous and want to keep these types of articles coming, support us here.โ€”eds. Keeping track of Portlandโ€™s thousands of food carts is a […]

Posted inFood Issue 2026

Food-Focused Day Trip: Beaverton Bites

Chow down on pho pizza and Mexican ice cream, and break to watch the birds.
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What follows is one of the many articles in the Mercuryโ€™s 2026 Food Issue. Find a print copy here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to you here, and if youโ€™re feeling generous and want to keep these types of articles coming, support us here.โ€”eds. Beaverton is more well-known as the home of Nikeโ€™s world […]

Posted inFood

Mr. Chip Will Sell Hard-to-Find Snacks Out of an Art Studio

The chip vending machine opens Saturday, June 27 at Mike Bennett studios.
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Calling all chip connoisseurs: Mr. Chip is opening this weekend to help cure your cravings for hard-to-find snacks.  The Mr. Chip vending machine is located inside Mike Bennett Studios in the Irvington neighborhood (707 NE Fremont) and will be stocked with chips from all over the United States and beyond. To mark the occasion, owner […]

Posted inFood Issue 2026

Come Hungry for the Portland Mercuryโ€™s Food Issue Launch Party, July 8!

See you at The Heist for specials from some of Portlandโ€™s top food carts.
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Portlandโ€™s food scene is something to celebrate every day, but itโ€™s not every day you get to celebrate it with your pals at the Mercury! Our new food issue hits stands July 8, and on that day, weโ€™re celebrating with an all-ages, free-to-attend shindig at one of Portlandโ€™s very best food cart pods, The Heist […]

Posted inFood and Drink

A Tomato-Only CSA Is Here for BLT Lovers

Copihue Farm offers over two dozen tomato varieties, many of them Chilean.
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The chronology of summer in Portland goes something like this: Bike Summer kicks off in June, rivers and lakes get mobbed with paddleboards and partiers in July, and heirloom tomato season shifts into full gear in August. Every restaurant and their mother serves BLTs and caprese salads; fights break out at the farmers market over […]

Posted inQueer Issue 2026

Queer Social Dancing Uproots Gender Norms

Stomptown, Landline, and Queer Baile are upturning the outdated culture of social dancing.
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What follows is one of the many articles in theย Mercuryโ€˜s 2026 Queer Issue. Find a print copyย here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to youย here, and if youโ€™re feeling generous and want to keep these types of articles coming, support usย here.โ€”eds. Partner dancing, at least traditionally, follows a strict gender binary: who leads and who […]

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Queer Winemakers Shake Up the Industry

Hip Chicks Do Wine, Ram Cellars, Statera Cellars/Lares, Zฤ“ Wines, and Landmass Wines are changing the game.
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What follows is one of the many articles in theย Mercuryโ€˜s 2026 Queer Issue. Find a print copyย here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to youย here, and if youโ€™re feeling generous and want to keep these types of articles coming, support usย here.โ€”eds. Wine often feels shrouded in rigidityโ€”the jargon, the inaccessible prices, the impossibly thin glassware […]

Posted inFood News

Long-Running Gastropub EastBurn Has Closed

Open since 2008, the bar was home to weekly comedy nights, open mics, and trivia, as well as brunch and Bloody Marys.
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The EastBurn, a gastropub, taproom, and host to multiple weekly community events, has closed. Though a sign on the businessโ€™s door states that the bar is closed for โ€œStaff Meeting & Maintenance,โ€ a former employee who wished not to be named confirmed the permanent closure to the Mercury on Wednesday, June 10, citing slow business […]

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New Strawberry Just Dropped!

Could Finnito be the next Hood strawberry?
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Hood strawberries just might be the Portland areaโ€™s most famous food product other than Voodoo Doughnuts or Salt and Straw ice cream. But as any local strawberry lover will tell you, Hood season is sweet but painfully shortโ€”about ten days, according to Megan Hallstone, vice president of Columbia Farms on Sauvie Island. In fact, Hoods […]

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Farewell to Foie Gras

City Council voted 7-5 to ban the force-fed luxury food.
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After multiple months of debates and delays, Portland City Council passed a foie gras ban Thursday, June 4. The ordinance prohibits foie gras, or fatty liver that is produced by force-feeding ducks or geese, from being served in restaurants and sold in retail stores within city limits. Those who violate the ordinance can, after a first […]

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Three Must-Try New AAPI-Owned Eateries: Dear Lola, After Ours, and Bangkok Belly

These newcomers offer Filipino diaspora food, Vietnamese bar snacks, and Thai street skewers.
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What follows is one of the many articles in the Mercury‘s 2026 Music Issue. Find a print copy here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to you here, and if youโ€™re feeling generous and want to keep these types of articles coming, support us here.โ€”eds. Dear Lola When Dantรฉ Fernandez was growing up in Portland, many other Filipinos told […]

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