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Three Must-Try New AAPI-Owned Eateries: Dear Lola, After Ours, and Bangkok Belly

These newcomers offer Filipino diaspora food, Vietnamese bar snacks, and Thai street skewers.

What follows is one of the many articles in the Mercury‘s 2026 Music Issue. Find a print copy here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to you here, and if youโ€™re feeling generous and want to keep these types of articles coming, support us here.โ€”eds. Dear Lola When Dantรฉ Fernandez was growing up in Portland, many other Filipinos told […]

Posted inFood News

Food News: Longtime Gรผero Cook Detained by ICE

Plus, a new Thai-inspired cocktail bar with Trinidadian bites opens, and Alpenrausch will close.

Just a couple weeks ago, we wrote that ICE had detained Khao Niew Lao food cart owner โ€œNongโ€ Thavatsay Phimmoungkhoun, known by many as a fixture of the PSU community. And this week, another ICE detention has hit another Portland family and the local food community hard.  Torta restaurant Gรผero posted on Instagram on May […]

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