Deschutes Brewery Street Fare 2010 Last year the Deschutes Brewery Street Fare crammed the streets in front of their NW location (NW Davis between 10th and 11th) with cold brew, food cart chow, plenty of bands, and a sea of people (see above). Since that went so well the Deschuters decided to do it again. […]
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SE 34th and Belmont Gets a Do Over
Aufwiedersehen! Farewell, Dixie Mattress. With the opening of Sweet Hereafter and Straight from New York Pizza the formerly abandoned space, complete with spider-webbed creepy birdcage in the window, has been reclaimed and is open for business. Passing Sweet Hereafter yesterday I noticed what appeared to be a doorman/bouncer. If this is so, he might be […]
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I Saw Jimmy Buffet’s Flip Flop
So I was in historic, beautiful New Orleans last week which was OHHHHHHH-KAY and fun from what I remember (which admittedly isn’t a lot, thanks to an eventual onset of alcohol poisoning). However! A definite highlight was laying bloodshot eyes on this: JIMMY BUFFET’S HAT AND FLIP FLOP!! Spotted this in a Parrot Head bar […]
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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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SW Ankeny Gears Up to Go Car-Free
Behold the pictorial proof: I can almost taste the sweet sunshiny patio beer. Sarah reports the closed-off SW Ankeny will open tomorrow for complete patio enjoyment. A walk-by today showed doughnut-loving tourists already camped out on the SW 3rd side, while the rest of the street is almost good to go. Some past reporting.
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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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Dig a Pony Grand Opening
The greatest bar named after a song on Let It Be, Dig a Pony is the fancy new watering hole launched by local men and women about town Aaron Hall, Jacob Carey and Page Finlay. Set in the completely remodeled building on the corner of SE Grand and Morrison (736 SE Grand, to be exact) […]
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It’s a Strange and Beautiful World: Hillbilly on a Trampoline
Behold! A somewhat gorgeous video of a hillbilly shotgunning a beer while jumping on a trampoline… IN SLOW MOTION. Behold! An equally somewhat gorgeous video of the same hillbilly racking his nuts on the same trampoline, probably because he was shotgunning a beer earlier… IN SLOW MOTION.
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Win Tickets to the Portland International Beerfest!
This weekend the Portland International Beerfest takes over the North Park Blocks, with an esoteric selection of beers from around the world. How “around-the-world” are we talking? Well, the event’s website doesn’t have a “beer” list, it has a “bier” list, and if you can pronounce all the different kinds of “bier” on that list—Slaapmutske […]
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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 […]
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Would You Wear Duchamp’s Urinal As A Dress? What If I Told You There Were Sequins Involved?
I am pretty sure the Mercury Office Manager sent me the link to this piece on The Rodnick Band‘s new collection, “Venus In Sequin” as a joke, but I kind of love it. You can view the entire collection—which also includes famous works of art by folks like Warhol and Van Gogh, among others, reimagined […]
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Moonshine Kitchen & Lounge
Over the weekend I had the opportunity to attend the private soft opening of the latest NW watering hole to join the block occupied by Slabtown and Le Happy. It’s a new venture from Sepal Meacham, who some will recognize from her long tenure behind the bar at the Clinton Street Pub. (You’ll also find […]