Portland Online Is Fresh Pot Hiring? I Just Want Some Time To Focus On My Music. As Sarah reported last week, Mayor Sam Adams won’t be running for reelection. It appears that just like the rest of us working in precarious fields (I’ve got the 1-2 punch of job insecurity: literary publishing and newspapers), Adams […]
Tony Perez
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Where Women Glow and Men Plunder
Pacific Pie Company’s Australian Meat Pies
Pacific Pie Company bakes up a Down Under staple.
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Dirty Hands, Clean Hearts (Can’t Lose?): Working Hands Farm
Our office manager Brad Buckner just before he hogged all the effing blueberries Back in March, as part of our Get To Know A Farmer series, I asked Brian Martin about the Working Hands Farm CSA. Today we got a chance to sample their goods. Working Hands Farm, in collaboration with Juliet Zulu (full disclosure: […]
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Le JarDIN DIN
It appears that summer’s finally here, so we have two weeks or so to make the most of it before the first winter storm hits. (Actually, my wine-maker pal insists that we’re going to have an Indian summer, based on previous vintages or something. If he’s getting my hopes up for nothing, I swear to […]
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McMenamins’ Crown Jewel
Can Zeus Overcome it’s Family’s Reputation?
THE BROTHERS McMENAMIN, for the latest notch in their belt, have forgone their usual transformation of a historic building into a museum of Grateful Dead ephemera and tater tots. This time, they’ve taken a shot at turning a former bathhouse into an upscale restaurant. Gone are Captain Neon and his side of greasy fries (you […]
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Central Shifts Gears (Still No Bros Allowed)
Central, the downtown “speakeasy” and Perriera Creperie’s rich, classy uncle, is moving away from crepes and rolling out a new menu. Eater reports that owner Dustin Knox enlisted Jake Martin, formerly of Fenouil and Carlyle, to design a new menu that focuses on small plates and local, seasonal ingredients. I thought the crepes worked well […]
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Otto-Tuned
Pitch-Perfect Plates, Whatever They Are
What Otto lacks in focus, it makes up for in flavor.
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Snap Judgement: Lela’s Bistro
[Welcome to Snap Judgment, an embarrassingly irregular Blogtown feature developed by my predecessor, PAC. The idea, still, is to drop by places both old and new for a one-dish fly-by, to develop an opinion based on that singular experience. Often, I’ll return a few months down the line for a Last Supper column. Sometimes I […]
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Kouign Amann
For the first time in my life, I have a cavity. (Also, for anyone planning on sleeping with me, I have to start wearing a mouthguard. Something about enamel.) The culprit, no doubt, is Alder’s Matthew Zack, who, with his canele’s and gelatos, has rekindled my romance with pastry and dessert. My favorite item in […]
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Chop Shop
City Market’s Butchery Branches Out
Chop goes beyond the City Market meat counter.
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Aviary-Aid
David Reamer I hardly knew thee… We reported last week on the fire that put Alberta’s Aviary temporarily out of commission. This week, the news is slightly better. Though it’ll be awhile before chefs Sarah Pliner, Jasper Shen, and Kat Whitehead get their beloved kitchen back, a couple other other portland restauranteurs are lending them […]
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Weekend Drinking: Can Fest
Do you prefer beer that, when finished, you can smash its packaging against your forehead to impress your bros? Boy do I have the festival for you. Jesse Cornett’s polito-pub, The Guild Public House, is hosting Portland’s first ever canned beer festival. Aluminum-ated beers will be poured from such breweries as 21st Amendment, Avery, Fort […]