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Where to Eat and Drink Around Portland for the FIFA World Cup

From watch parties to trying cuisines from competing countries, here’s where to celebrate football’s biggest tournament.
Avatar photo by Zoe Baillargeon

It’s officially soccer season in North America, as the FIFA World Cup kicked off on June 11 for a month of highly anticipated matches across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. And what better place to celebrate this once-in-every-four-years event than Portland, AKA Soccer City? Even for those who aren’t big soccer fans, it’s hard […]

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Join the Cult of the Shrimp Burger

Bbang’s shrimp burger, an ode to a Korean fast food classic, already has a devoted following.
Avatar photo by Katherine Chew Hamilton

Step aside, Filet-o-Fish—there’s a new shrimp burger sheriff in town. Bbang, a Korean-inspired burger and fried chicken spot, opened next to Holy Ghost bar on February 18. Even before opening, shrimp burger devotees were waiting eagerly at the restaurant’s metaphorical door. They’d come to be obsessed with the shrimp burger in previous years when Doyaji, […]

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