Events

Black Sheep Bakery Pumpkin Pie Call 525-4343 or 997-2188 to order. Generally, I view vegan baked items unfavorably, because they never seem to have the moist texture or luscious flavor of the real deal. This is not the case, however, with Black Sheep Bakery’s vegan pumpkin pie. Baker Amanda Felt has truly mastered the art […]

Nocturnal 1800 E Burnside, 239-5900 While Nocturnal’s main dishes can be hit-and-miss, the one thing you can always count on are the tater tots. Tots with cheese, delicious Mexi Tots with fresh tomatoes, onion, jalapeños, and melted cheese, or just plain old crispy tots with ketchup. A large, alcohol-absorbent pile costs two or three dollars, […]

Yam Yam’s 7339 NE MLK, 978-9229 One of the few Southern food joints in Portland that offers all the fixins, Yam Yam’s is top notch. As you might expect, the sweet, buttery yams are one of the highlights, along with the tangy, baked-in-a-pan macaroni and cheese. The collards have quite obviously been cooked all day, […]

Wild About Game Cook-off Resort at the Mountain, 68010 E Fairway, Welches, OR, Saturday, October 25, Call 503-622-3101 For Tickets Sorry to tell you this, but meat is back in. Oh sure, we may all die of heart attacks or mad cow, but we get one stinking life to live on this stupid earth and […]

Blue Monk 3341 SE Belmont, 595-0575 For a jazz club, the Blue Monk has the ambiance of a breakfast joint, with its standard wooden chairs and teal vinyl booths. So why then, not take advantage of their Sunday breakfast hours? At the Monk’s Sunday jazz brunch, a lone guitar player filters pleasant music into the […]

Staccato Gelato 232 NE 28th, 231-7100 The gelato (milk-base) and sorbeto (no dairy) at Staccato come in familiar flavors: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla (or “crema”), and uncommon ones like zuppa inglese (adapting English triffle). The texture, though, is otherworldly. Like DQ soft serve’s upper-class cousins, gelato and sorbeto have a trademark velvety character. Try a […]

Laurelthirst 2958 NE Glisan, 232-1504 The Laurelthirst is a dark mellow place to eat breakfast after a long night out. Their scrambles are always right on, my favorite being the bacon, tomato, cheddar that comes with loaded with big pieces of crispy bacon. The last time I ate there they served up old home fries […]

Abol Café 923L NE Broadway, 281-7961 I’m a vegetarian. Also, I’m broke. This generally means I’m SOL when it comes to dining anywhere but a NoPo taqueria. Not anymore! I’ve discovered the joy of the Abol Café’s $5 all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. It’s simple, tasty, wholesome food consisting of lentils, cabbage, collards, and a montage of […]

O3 Café 701 E Burnside, 227-1975 If you wake up and the first thing you think about is music, causing you to go to the record store on an empty stomach, causing you to forget to eat for the first five hours of the day and subsequently pass out, never fear. The newly revamped café […]

Good Dog/Bad Dog 708 SW Alder, 222-3410 Sometimes it seems like this town is teeming with vegetarians and vegans. I mean, I can’t go five minutes without someone trying to stuff a vegan scone or cookie in my faceÉ but I do not distress. The carnivores are out there, and they’re packed into Good Dog/Bad […]

Salad World 837 SW 2nd Even though Salad World is not much more than a giant salad buffet, who can say no to a giant delicious salad buffet? Homemade pasta salads, tons of fresh vegetables, tuna salad, dressings, garbanzo beans, peas, corn, shredded carrots, hard-boiled eggs, a hot food bar, grilled aparagus, sushi, and at […]

Corbett Fish House 5901 SW Corbett, 246-4434 Tucked away on a random residential street in the heart of John’s Landing, Corbett Fish House certainly doesn’t benefit from a hip location. But if you like good ol’ fashioned deep-fried fish accompanied by 20-ounce glasses of good beer, mounds of coleslaw, and extremely friendly service, then it […]