Peter Szymczak
PETER SZYMCZAK is a food, beverage and travel journalist based in Portland. He earned his culinary diploma from Oregon Culinary Institute and he is the former editor of Northwest Palate magazine. Peter now freelances for various publications around the Pacific Northwest. To read more of his writing, visit his blog at HooksandCooks.com.

Drifters: Inn at the Fifth

It's been nearly three interminable decades since downtown Eugene, Ore., has had a new hotel. Thankfully, the times they are a changin'. Out with moldy-oldy, hippydippy Track Town, USA, and in with the sophisticated, swanky Inn at the Fifth, erected on the former...

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Grazers: Acadia Bistro

Yes, I am watching the current season of Top Chef, but only because Seattle’s most daring/darling chef Carrie Mashaney is competing for the title. If it wasn’t for her beaming face and fount of positivity and creativity on the tele every week, I’d have turned it...

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Grazers: Ataula

In the space formerly home to the now shuttered Patanegra, Ataula has taken up the tapas torch from the previous occupants and makes it shine brightly anew. Before moving to Portland in 2012, Barcelona-born chef Jose Chesa earned his chops at several...

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