Located on SE Belmont, Cody Auger’s sushi restaurant Hokusei featured one of the best omakase, or chef’s choice, menus in Portland, Oregon. It’s no wonder, then, that Auger decided to play to his strengths when opening his new restaurant, Fukami Sushiya. Soon after...
Among Portland’s culinary achievements, the excellence of its beer, coffee and doughnuts rank high. They’re all cozy items, meant to combat the winter’s constant chill and damp. But opportunities to enjoy all three at the same time are slim. Doughnut shops don’t...
On a rainy Wednesday night during Portland Dining Month, we were able to try the tasting menu at the new concept restaurant Willow. For those of us who aren’t lucky enough to have chefs as best friends, Doug Weiler and John Pickett wanted to serve farm-to-table...
Five years into brewing their highly sought-after, barrel-fermented peach sour, Fantasia, Upright Brewing has come close to perfecting it. Each batch is made with fresh peaches from Dayton, Oregon's Baird Family Orchards, aged in oak for at least a year and...
Located on an odd, triangular lot in a corrugated-tin building that formerly housed an unremarkable taqueria, Mama San Soul Shack had a built-in customer base before it opened. Until it was annexed by Portland in 1915, the city of St. Johns was an entirely separate...
With a combination of local, sustainable and artisanal ingredients that includes Italian espresso and Tanzanian cacao, Zupan’s Markets and Coalition Brewing’s imperial coffee chocolate stout collaboration fits in a category of what might be termed “breakfast...
Located in the heart of Portland’s Old Town, The Society Hotel is a welcome respite from the bustle of busy bars and nightclubs that surround it. Described by its owners as a blend of a boutique hotel and upscale hostel, it offers stylish, affordable lodgings for...
For the most recent edition of the #SALTFIREWATER collaborative dinner series in Jacobsen Salt Co.’s soaring, cathedral-like headquarters, Jacobsen Salt, Bee Local, Williams-Sonoma and New Seasons Market came together to bring chef Edouardo Jordan of Seattle’s Salare...
For many foodies, early fall is an exciting time. Bakers dust off their rolling pins in preparation for apple pies; mushroom hunters sharpen their knives to collect chanterelles. But to brewers in the Pacific Northwest, early fall means only one thing: hop harvesting,...
Earlier this year, the Hotel Vintage Plaza underwent an extensive renovation. Newly reopened as the Hotel Vintage Portland, it and the attached northern Italian restaurant Pazzo are ready to entertain Portland visitors and locals alike. For Pazzo’s new executive chef,...
