Wake up, New York! You’re supposed to be the city that doesn’t take any bullshit, the city that chews up the phonies and spits ‘em out! Are you really going to be bamboozled by a bunch of pseudo-hipsters from Portland, Oregon? Are you really going to fall for Stumptown Coffee? I wasn’t sure I even […]
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Putting the Cart Before the Restaurant
The first review I wrote for the Mercury was of Wayne’s Chicago Red Hots in North Portland. Randy Sanders (who named his shop after his dad) had just opened his storefront in NE Portland after years of operating a cart in Warren, Oregon. Wayne’s is little more than an indoor food cart. Sanders, sticking with […]
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Monster Truck Back Flip Friday
Yes, I tagged this as both drunk and sports. Because there is no better sport to watch while drunk than Monster Trucking! I also think that Monster Trucking is best performed when drunk. I mean, how drunk do you have to be to decide you want to do a back flip in your Monster Truck? […]
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Of Cookies and Torture
It took more questioning, and some interrogators’ sleight of hand, before the Yemeni gave up a wealth of information about al-Qaeda — including the identities of seven of the 9/11 bombers — but the cookies were the turning point. “After that, he could no longer think of us as evil Americans,” Soufan says. “Now he […]
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How Radio Rocked My Morning
Day in day out all week longThings go better with rockThe only time I turn it downIs when I’m sleepin it off Turn up the radioI need the music, gimmie some moreTurn up the radioI wanna feel it got to gimmie some more -“Turn Up the Radio” by Autograph At one time American radio had […]
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The Art of Dine and Dash
Sunday evening, Arcata California. My wife Kitty and I are in Mazzotti’s Italian Restaurant on the main square, and we want nothing more than enormous plates of carbohydrates, which the menu promises in spades. As we consider which monstrous dish of starch to order, we are both struck by the conversation at the table beside […]
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Beer Goggles
Saraveza: Best Enjoyed with Brew
The menu options at Saraveza range from “good” to “good enough.” But
the suds are always perfect.
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Food News
Eat for Charity!
Bastas hosts a “Soup Smackdown” to help out the kids.
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James Beard Will Always Belong to Portland.
Last fall I received an advance copy of a cookbook being released just in time for the holidays. It was actually a re-release of James Beard’s The Fireside Cookbook, originally published in 1949. Beard wrote The Fireside Cookbook as a basic guide to fine dining and its pages include recipes that run the gamut from […]
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The Hunt for Koi Fusion
The hunt for Koi Fusion would not have been that hard if we hadn’t been mislead by a tweet that took us into NW Portland. Then we lost connection with Twitter on the iPhone, thus missing a its actual location. Erik got grumpy. We were redirected by construction. We gave up. The whole situation reminded […]
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Doughnut Socks
I’m not exactly sure what the hell is going on in this video. All I know is that it has something to do with a little girl who has eaten too many sweets… And then she puts a doughnut on her foot and it magically transforms into a sock. Speaking of doughnuts. Have you seen […]
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Let’s Talk About Sex (and Food), Baby!
Say hello to the limbic system, the seat of all your weepy post break-up binges; the place where all your lusts are born; the dark country from whence crawls both the desire for cupcakes and copulation. Located below the rational portion of your brain (the cerebral cortex) the limbic system is set up, in part, […]