Mark your calendar. Send that e-mail to your boss about your fake dentist appointment. Boke Bowl, the monthly ramen pop-up, is taking over the Oba kitchen for lunch service on February 28th from 11:30 to 1:30. I haven’t made it to any of their meals yet, but last month’s dinner at the Bijou Cafe drew […]
Tony Perez
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Jucy Lucy
Lucy’s Original: When You Really Want a Cheeseburger
Lucy’s Original reinvents the wheel: cheese on the—get this—inside!
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Attention Publicists:
Look…it’s kind of you to invite me to your events, and tastings, and dinners, and what have you, but while I have you here, I’d like to make clear that I’ll no longer be taking part in meals on the ground. It’s 2011, and from here on out, unless you plan on wooing me 50 […]
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McSweeney’s Cookbooks
Last week an article in Publisher’s Weekly revealed that indie-press powerhouse McSweeney’s is launching a new line of cookbooks. The yet-to-be named imprint sprang from the San Francisco Panorama (McSweeney’s phenomenal one-off newspaper, which Alison covered here). Co-publisher Chris Ying was encouraged by the response to the food section of the paper, and wanted to […]
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Non-Profit Publicans
The Oregon Public House may very well be the country’s first pub operating as a non-profit (just to be clear: having a shitty bar that makes no money doesn’t qualify you as a 503(c)3). All profits will go to a charity of the customer’s choice. Sounds like a bookkeeping nightmare—funneling $4 pints to each individual […]
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The Luddite’s New Brunch Option
Ned Ludd’s Jason French Becomes a Morning Person
Ned Ludd, the wood-fired favorite, expands into brunch territory.
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Perfect Pickle
So I guess there’s no point in keeping up the charade any longer. The only reason I took this Mercury gig was that I knew it would be a stepping stone to a technical-advisory job on some kind of pickle-based reality competition show. Cha-Ching! Since the networks should come courting tomorrow morning, Alison has agreed […]
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Honk if You’re Lonesome Tonight
Pizza Delivery at 4 am That Won’t Make You Feel Worse About Yourself
Lonesome’s Pizza walks a fine line between artisan and accessible.
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Publisher’s Lunch
The good people at Publication Studio, Matthew Stadler and Patricia No, are throwing the second installment of their Publisher’s Lunch series Tuesday, February 15, from noon to 2 PM. This time, they’re celebrating the release of Philip Iosca’s new poetry collection Ballad Of The Sad Young Men (our man in the stacks, Jacob Schraer, will […]
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Publican Don Younger In Unstable Condition (UPDATED)
Sad news coming in from 45th and Belmont. Don Younger, the undisputed godfather of Oregon craft brews and proprietor behind the Horse Brass Pub, is reportedly unconscious and on a respirator in the cardiac intensive care unit. OregonLive is reporting that he’s not expected to survive long. Younger’s influence on NW beer can’t be overstated. […]
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Melville’s Beard Fetish
How many names can you up with for your favorite barista’s facial hair? I got three. But that’s why I have to write about dive bars on Lombard and not, you know, universally human themes of vengeance and man’s place in the natural world and, like, obsession and stuff. According to the blog The Towering […]
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ATTENTION: Poors And Cheaps…
Say hello to my friend Hippy Johnny. No way he’s missing free coffee on Alberta. Actually, could you maybe give him a ride?