If you played your cards right this summer, now you’ve got a warm body to cuddle up with in front of a cozy fireplace as you hold hands and pick out names for the kids you’re going to have together. If, like me, you wasted your summer on meaningless bar hookups, what better fall pastime […]
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Happy hours
Happy hours Caldera, 6031 SE Stark, 233-8242, Tues-Sun 5-6 pm, 9 pm-close, $4 lemon drops & cosmos, $4 PBR 40-ouncers, $2.75 pints, $8 pitchers Elegant happy hour eats in a historic old pharmacy. Capitol Coffee House, 6446 SW Capitol Hwy, 297-1455, Tues-Sat 3-6 pm, $2 beer, $4 cocktails, $4 wine, food specials Coffee shop and […]
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A Slice of Woodstock
Toast’s Tiny Charm
The fact that the local/organic scene is here to stay is evidenced less, perhaps, by the presence of culinary heavyweights like Wildwood or Paley’s Place, than by smaller restaurants cropping up like adorable little toadstools in the shadow of larger, similarly minded establishments. Toast is a great example: Here’s an under-the-radar little neighborhood joint, crammed […]
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Happy Hours
Brazen Bean, 2075 NW Glisan, 294-0636, Mon-Fri 5-8 pm, half off martinis Get your girly drunk on with cheap fancy martinis. Buffalo Gap, 6835 SW Macadam, 244-7111, daily 4-6 pm, 10 pm-midnight, $2.95 food menu The Buffalo Gap’s happy hour menu ain’t too shabby: personal pita pizza, nachos, tacos, and “garlic bleu cheese potato chips.” […]
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Finger Food
Eating Regionally at the E’Njoni Café
According to the most recent act of fellatio performed on Portland by a very orally fixated New York Times, we live in a “a golden age of dining and drinking,” with talented young chefs attracted to the city by a combination of brilliant local produce and affordable real estate. While I have no fundamental objection […]
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Show Me the Way…
Bottles and Brews at the Morrison Hotel
Inner Southeast, between Grand and 12th, is a dingy but optimistic little neighborhood, holding its breath as tentacles of affluence from downtown and wealthier neighborhoods to the east make tentative inroads. East Morrison boasts a handful of new establishments, from the plush, pirate-themed Maiden in the Mist to the lunch-oriented Nu Café to the Morrison […]
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Happy Hours
Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont, 595-0575, 5-7 pm daily, $4.50 specialty cocktails No more jazz. The recently renovated downstairs now hosts a game room with darts, pinball, and pool. Bluehour, 250 NW 13th, 226-3394, 4:30-6:30 pm daily, $3 drafts, $4 wells, $1-7 food menu I don’t care how broke you are, it’s your civic duty […]
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Stalking Corn
An Obsession with Dove Vivi’s Cornmeal Pizza
If you had told me a month ago that my next food obsession would be based on corn, I’d have argued with you. Corn’s not my thing, I’d have stubbornly said, regaling you with stories of my corn-overloaded past. Sweet corn was the only fresh veggie to grace my Midwestern family’s plates in the summer; […]
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Happy Hours
Bar of the Gods, 4801 SE Hawthorne, 232-2037, 5-8 pm daily, $1 PBR, $2.50 wells Stiff drinks and better-than-average bar food. Good ol’ BOG. Binks, 2715 NE Alberta, 493-4430, Mon-Fri 4:30-6:30 pm, $2.50 micros, $1.75 PBR, $2.75 wells, $4 pizza, plus Simpsons happy hour Sun 7-8:30 pm Hip li’l Alberta hangout. Pool, pizza, and The […]
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Coincidentally Vegan
Nutshell Is What it Is
Simply put, Nutshell is defined by what it serves, not what it doesn’t. It seems that most vegan and vegetarian restaurants bow to an unseen pressure to do whatever it takes to make their key ingredients taste as close to meat as possible. Granted, faux-meat dishes can be fun, and a handy method to help […]
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Happy Hours
Berbati’s Pan, 10 SW 3rd, 226-2122, 4-7 pm daily, $3 gyros, $1 off the rest of the menu Pool, Greek food, and outdoor seating make for great downtown people watching. Bernie’s, 2904 NE Alberta, 282-9864, Tues-Sat, 4-6 pm, $3 food menu w/drink purchase Chicken po’ boy, sweet potato fries, fried green tomatoes, bananas foster, mac […]
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Good Morning, Foster
Better Breakfasting at Bar Carlo
The bar at the heart of Bar Carlo is, in fact, an espresso bar. Quaint, right? It’s a big, beautiful bar that dominates the otherwise under-furnished restaurant, providing both a focal point and a suggestion that Bar Carlo might have more to offer than its mismatched chairs, linoleum floors, and unfinished interior would initially suggest. […]