Two of the fun lovinest places in NE North Portland are having anniversaries this month, and that means you get celebrate with them and reap the benefits. First up is Saraveza [1004 N Killingsworth St.]. This bottle shop, pasty purveyor, and beer hall has been a Midwesterners Northeastern Shangri-La for one full year now. It’s […]
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Bustin’ Heads With the Swiss!
Why don’t the Swiss recognize that increasing your ability to win a bar fight is worthy of a Nobel Prize? I guess “neutrality” is just another way of saying “we’re big wimps.” Thank goodness then that the people behind Harvard’s Annals of Improbable Research are there to pick up the slack by awarding a team […]
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Cheese, Bacon, Your Gallbladder, and You.
This is a Representation of the Best Day of Your Life… Between Two Slices of White Bread Will this Saturday be the best food day of your entire young, restless, hungry life? Hells yes. Two reasons: cheese and bacon. So I’m sure anyone who’s been reading Blogtown for any significant amount of time has heard […]
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On and Off Distillery Row
New Booze in Southeast Portland, Plus a Cocktail Preview
Two joints on Distillery Row gear up for new booze releases and two top
bartenders give us a peek at the fall cocktail list.
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Tanuki and Nihonshu no Hi
Seems like many of the most enjoyable times in my life start with me saying something along the lines of, “I don’t know much about…” the ellipses being filled with any number of things that I do not know much about. The best thing about not knowing much about a thing is that you get […]
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Free Food, One Block, Tonight Only
From yakuzalounge.com Yakuza Well, better late than never. I just today received word from the Micah Camden empire about the block party they’ll be throwing tonight, 7 pm, at NE Killingsworth and 30th. The celebration commemorates three years of operation at Yakuza, one year at DOC, and the opening of the new Brit inspired Fats. […]
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Some (Boozy) Things You Can Do This Weekend
Tequila! Last night I met this man: That dashing fellow is Clayton Szczech. He’s the brain and brawn behind Experience Tequila. Szczech hosts tequila tastings around our fair city. He also organizes and leads ridiculously affordable tours to the heart of the tequila producing lands in… Lemme see here… Tequila, Jalisco, which totally makes sense […]
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Rare Beauty
Laurelhurst Market: Simply Excellent
“Affordable” and “steak” in the same sentence? Laurelhurst Market is a
rare combination.
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Indulge at the Jupiter: Boozing it Up for a Better School Lunch
As a kid, I was once kicked out of school for the day because I wore a shirt disparaging school lunch. Admittedly, the shirt was gross. I believe it had a bright orange slogan reading “School Lunch Sucks” above a cartoon of a bug-eyed, doubled over, puking kid. Even then I was a critic. Whatever […]
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Here’s a Hint: That’s Not Water
Water should not have calories. I say this because it seems we’ve forgotten that fact. If you’re drinking some kind of bottled “water” and you’re concerned that it has too many calories, then you’re not actually drinking water. What you are drinking is weak juice. Also, any product that claims to have fewer calories than […]
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Your Toaster Sucks!
There are few foods that I love as much as I love toast. The reasons for my affection are numerous. Among them are the facts toast is warm and crunchy, it’s made quickly, and varies widely in flavor depending on what bread you happen to be using. Kitty and I recently took the leap of […]
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Scappoose Means Sauerkraut!
There are few foods that I love as much as I love sauerkraut. The reasons for my affection are numerous. Among them are the facts proper sauerkraut is a live food made with beneficial microbes, it keeps for a very long time, and it pairs ridiculously well with encased meat products. If I could I’d […]