It may look like a tasteless eatery built for nouveau riche Lake Oswegans, but Aquariva is producing simple, flavorful Italian cuisine.
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Where’s the Beef? It’s Been Recalled, Again…
This week began with Whole Foods and Fred Meyer stores recalling beef from a Nebraska meat processor due to concerns of e-coli infection. This is the second beef recall to be issued by Fred Meyer this year, the first for Whole Foods. You can find recall information here and here. Fred Meyer has been associated […]
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Monday Bloody Monday
Old-timey hangover The Place: Huber’s, 411 SW 3rd Avenue What Prompted the Visit: Well, there’s nothing better than drinking a bloody mary after your company’s softball team dominates its rival. Besides, I needed something to cool my heckle ravaged throat. Also, I’d just been to the Bite of Oregon and I needed something to calm […]
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Summer Boozy Goodness: Crossover!
One simple word Earlier this week, on the Monday Bloody Monday post, Blogtownies weighed in regarding their ultimate bloody mary. Before I go further. I must first offer a “mea culpa.” In the post, I thoughtlessly gave away the secret ingredient to my wife, Kitty’s, bloody mary. She was none too pleased. But she should […]
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BBQ Is Not a Verb
And Florida is not a southern state. At least, that’s the opinion of this group of good ‘ol boys who pick an’ grin their way through a musical primer of Southern BBQ styles. It’s both educational and drool inducing. Did you know that people from South Carolina put a mustard sauce on their BBQ? All […]
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Malaysian Melting Pot
Travel Southeast Asia without Leaving Your Seat at Kinta
Kinta offers food that’s satisfying but not over-the-top amazing.
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Food News
Two new Northeast Portland restaurants and a burgeoning brewery arrive on the scene.
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Soupcycle for the Lunchless Soul
I’m not a big lunch eater. This is a fact that infuriates my lovely wife, Kitty. You see, she cares so much about my health, she’s been known to drag herself out of bed at dawn to make me a tasty lunch, which I will inevitably leave on the counter in my mad dash out […]
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D.O.C. Preview
D.O.C., recently opened at 5519 NE 30th Ave, extended an invitation to media types for a preview dinner this week. Unfortunately I was unable to attend. However, our enthusiastic unpaid arts intern was kind enough to go along. Here’s what she had to say about the event: Yesterday, I got real lucky. Since Patrick, our […]
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Monday Bloody Monday: The Question Edition
I knew it would come down to this, eventually. I knew that there would come a weekend where the indulgence and debauchery would not be enough to send me spinning into the next day looking for that elixir of life, known as the bloody mary. This was such a weekend, friends. Which is not to […]
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Killer Salad. No, Really…
poisonous salad I don’t eat enough salad. That’s a damn fact. It’s not that I’m not trying. It’s just that my diet as a food editor often leads me away from leafy greens. According to a recent story from Reuters, maybe that’s not such a bad thing: Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has apologized after […]
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Summer Boozy Goodness
I don’t know if it’s because I’m writing this SBG post on an overcast day while listening to Tom Waits, or what… But I’m in the mood for a little whiskey. Now, whiskey isn’t my usual summertime libation. Its warmth, and woodsy tones, make it what I crave as the leaves begin to turn. But […]