Eat out this Thursday, June 18th, at one of these fine restaurants, cafes, bakeries, or bars, and 15% of the proceeds will benefit Basic Rights Oregon – it’s the annual fundraiser Bites for Rights.
make a day of it and support establishments that support equality for all. visit as many places as you can, be sure to thank them for their participation before you leave
+ don’t forget to order dessert!
Last November Gourmet fawned all over the Portland restaurant scene.
This time it’s more specific – Giovanna Zivny investigates waffles in the City of Roses:
Waffles are big right now in this city. Cooks are turning out yeasted Liège-style waffles with bits of caramelized pearl sugar baked inside; classic versions with maple syrup; and fun new combos like bacon, Brie, and basil.
Read the rest: Eight Great Waffles in Portland
Update: Portland photographer Thomas Boyd, who took some of the photos used in the article, writes about working with Gourmet Magazine on his blog.
The New York Times’ obsession with all things Portland continues.
The Moment blog today takes a Culinary Voyage | Portland, Oregon.
An excerpt:
Fair trade coffee. Biodynamic wine bars. A community garden on every other corner. Selmeliers (trans: salt connoiseurs [sic]). The locavore dining scene in Portland, Ore., can feel a little exhausting and earnest to the out-of-towner, even one from Williamsburg, Brooklyn — the land of house-made pickles and grass-fed butchers. The thing is, the food is that good, and the prices cheap. Here, a few highlights from the city’s ever-expanding culinary utopia.
A new restaurant, Ned Ludd, gets written up – they call their cooking style “Portland Euro.”
Clyde Common (one of my favorites) gets a mention: Bearded boys and kaffiyeh-wearing girls belly up to the bar to sample the artisanal cocktails like an Ace Gibson.
Biwa is lauded as an Izakaya-style restaurant (think Japanese pub food) that can satisfy both the seaweed-eating vegetarian and the carnivore.
Even the shops New Seasons and the Meadow get a mention.
It’s really astonishing; you’d think they’d maybe get tired of Portland by now.
Katie and Justin at Hall of Records (blog | myspace) have been researching and scouting the restaurant and bar scene in Portland for the past year in their search for a brick and mortar record store and bar location.
Katie has compiled a list of websites essential to such an endeavor in Portland:
- Yelp – Amazing insight into market research and competition analysis
- PortlandMaps
- Craigslist (business and office/commercial)
- Loopnet
- RMLS
- OLCC
- Portland Food & Drink Blog
- Google Maps
- Bizcenter.org (Portland SBDC – our business counselors)
Read the whole post: The Routine
And check out this video of last Friday’s Hall of Records produced Wax Broker Riot (Mile73‘s Heather and yours truly make a very brief cameo!) :
As a commenter pointed out recently, it is believed Portland was built on an ancient unicorn burial ground.
Next time you, a Portlander, are interviewed by a reporter from afar, throw that fantastic fact into the conversation, and act as if you believe it. The goal is that someday we’ll be reading in the New York Times about Portland’s grungy flannel hip urban greenness and we’ll also learn that many people believe Portland was built on an ancient unicorn burial ground.
If you think an ancient unicorn burial ground is too far fetched, suggest some alternatives in the comments!
Laurel Miller’s article in the Oakland Tribune, Fork in the Road: Culinary Road to Portland, introduces the reader to boilerplate Portland (emphasis mine):
I have a certain affinity for knit hats, inked skin, loud music and creative types. So it is no surprise that I love Portland, Ore.
When I visited, I stayed at the funky, uber-hip and uber-Portland Ace Hotel, located in the Pearl District.
Grab a seat at the zinc bar or at one of the communal farmhouse tables, and watch the team of tatted, beanied, vintage T-shirted cooks gracefully orchestrate the bustling lunch and dinner service.
Anyway, it goes on and on.
Actually in the second quote above, you’ll notice that the Ace Hotel is “located in the Pearl District”. This is news to me, as I never considered SW Stark Street to be part of the Pearl District. I think I’ve read this before in one of these Portland travelogues; perhaps the marketing department at the Ace Hotel has their own unicorn burial grounds tale to tell . . .