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Best Place to Sled in Portland
Mount Tabor, specifically the spot "above the second reservoir where you can find the perfect mix of families and teenagers not so slyly drinking beers and using anything from kiddie pools to cardboard to bomb down the hill."
January 11, 2017
Best Bagels
Bundy's Bagels, made by obsessive workaholic Joel Bundy, who "thinks about quitting every day."
February 21, 2017
Best Fish Cakes and Beef Patties We've Had in This City
The ones at new pop-up Jamaican Taste, cooked by former Bostonian Robert Bryant.
May 2, 2017
Best Way to Give Ourselves a Fighting Chance Against the Big Quake
Build a disaster preparedness kit. "You'll want to spread supplies across multiple locations—and in your car, which will be in multiple locations."
Jan. 3, 2017
Best Little Strip Club in Portland
Sassy's, where the "casual vibe" and $2.50 craft pints till 7 pm add up to a situation where you're "likely to find at least one woman for every two men."
May 23, 2017
Best Tonkotsu Ramen
The version at Marukin, whose flavor "is like an elephant riding a unicycle, terrifying and amazing in the bigness of its balance."
December 13, 2016
Best-Looking Movie About How Women Think by a Male Filmmaker
The Neon Demon, whose director, Nicholas Winding Refn, "seems to think women will fuck, kill and eat one another to appease Hollywood's gatekeepers."
December 27, 2016
Best "Old Reliable" Band at Treefort
Thee Oh Sees, whose singer-guitarist John Dwyer likes to "whip his hair around," "hold his guitar like a rifle," and "talk shit about PBR."
March 29, 2017
Best Drinking Roof for People Watching
The one at 10 Barrel in the Pearl, which lets you look down on "upscale W+K employees, suburban boutique shoppers and terribly fit Pearl clubgoers."
May 10, 2017
Best Movie Theater Food
The Academy Theater's hot-plate Flying Pie pizza, which is "the best hype- and theme-free pizza shop in Portland."
May 30, 2017
Best Money Portland Ever Spent
Powell Butte Nature Park, which also represents the "best moonrise, best lover's lane, [and] best spot to smoke weed outdoors."
June 14, 2017
Best Acai Bowl
The "orange-pink, silky-smooth acai blend" of the Summer Breeze Bowl at Nob Hill's KIVA, which "literally and figuratively towers over the competition.
January 3, 2017
Best Mac 'n' Cheese to Eat When You're Stoned
Velveeta Shells & Cheese, which we prized for its premixed cheese product. "Converting to that Velveeta life means you'll never forget to leave the store with needed milk and butter."
February 7, 2017
Best Beer Hang in Vancouver
Downtown Vancouver brewery Loowit, whose excellent taste in arcade games "either reflects the quality of Loowit's beer or shows you just how much time employees spend back there amid the tanks."
February 28, 2017
The nog at New Seasons: "Serve this with confidence and a stack of cheese from the discount remnant bin and you've got yourself one hell of a holiday party."
December 20, 2016
Best Pizza
Apizza Scholls, to whom "no legitimate challenger has ever emerged. Whenever someone says otherwise, feel free to politely ignore the rest of their opinions."
October 28, 2016
Best Burrito Filling Known to Man
Machaca, as prepared at a place called Carolina's in South Phoenix.
May 1, 2017
Best Bougie Taco Spot in the Southeast
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Xico, which we said "served margaritas in a sea of margs."
August 16, 2016
Best Way To Watch a Meteor Shower
In case facing "where the least possible number of trees or hills will block your view" isn't an obvious enough tip for looking at celestial missiles, we had a team from the Meteor Society confirm it. Science rules!
August 8, 2016
Best Butcher-Shop Rib-Eye in Portland
Painted Hills, as it turns out. Quoth one of our tasters: "This steak is the ugliest, it is the fattiest and it is the best."
May 30, 2017
Best Beer Buyer in Portland on One Very Beery Day in March
Connecticut native Jim Bonomo at Tin Bucket, whose list was "like Christmas morning."
March 7, 2017
Best Doner Kebabs in Portland
The spit-roasted lamb sammies at California-based Spitz: "Thank you, Turks, thank you, Germans, thank you, Angelenos."
Apr 6, 2017
Best Sporting Event in the World
The Olympics. Duh.
August 3, 2016
Oregon's Best Brewpub Burger With Beef From a Local Ranch
Terminal Gravity, in Enterprise, Ore., whose burgers are made from beef "descended from the cattle the Spanish turned loose on the open range upward of 500 years ago."
March 2, 2017
Hottest and Best Chinese Food in Portland
Well—in Beaverton, anyway. It's at Taste of Sichuan, whose Swimming Fire Fish is "only, like, the fourth-craziest thing on the menu."
October 27, 2016
Best Ice Cream-Themed Ice-Cream Parlor
Cool Moon, whose Spicy Thai Peanut scoop is "weird done right."
August 18, 2016
Best Dolmas, Ever
They're at Hawthorne Lebanese spot TarBoush, "tart and spicy and sweet all at once."
October 28, 2016
Best Spazz-Out at PDX Pop Now
Consumer, who sings "like Jim Carrey doing karaoke in The Cable Guy."
July 28, 2016
Best Little Garage Brewery in Gresham
Hop Haus, whose wastewater-engineer brewer makes "a real clean beer, every time."
February 28, 2017
Best German Brewery in Portland
"Whatever you said, you're wrong. There isn't one."
September 28, 2016
Best Ski Season Mount Hood Has Had Since Obama Was a Senator
The one that just ended. Mazel!
February 7, 2017
Best New Cider Made in Oregon This Year
1859's Hunter's Moon, aged for eight months in eight different tanks, using eight different yeast strains.
June 20, 2017
Best Scumbag Breakfast
The perfectly portioned, expertly seasoned breakfast special at Yur's—$6 for eggs, country potatoes, toast and a choice of side meat, served up in the morning with a $1.75 PBR.
May 23, 2017
Best Detroit-Style Pizza
It can be found Tuesdays at East Glisan Pizza Lounge, a "traditional red-top with a hearty, deep red sauce made special for this pie that's applied in careful rows atop a thick blend of mozzarella and brick cheese."
February 7, 2017
Best Dad at MusicfestNW
Ice Cube. "Yes, at age 47, Ice Cube is as embarrassing as your own father. And if you ask him, he'd surely tell you he doesn't give a fuck."
August 31, 2016
The Best Natural Wine List for 500 Miles
It was at Killingsworth Street wine bar Dame, whose sommelier just left to go work at Holdfast.
September 6, 2017
The Best Hazy Hoppy Beers Anywhere in the World Right Now
The ones at Alberta Street brewery Great Notion—including Juice Jr., our 2017 Beer of the Year.
February 28, 2017
Best New Hazy IPA not Brewed on Alberta
Breakside's Something Wicked, which is "as soft as beer gets, with a body that has the yellow fuzziness of an old beach photo."
March 14, 2017
Best Band for This Particular Moment
Lithics, our Best New Band 2017, which sounds like "mutant disco made for actual mutants, played by the last humans left in the sewers after the coming Trumpocalypse."
March 15, 2017
Best Bar Pizza Portland Has Ever Seen
Associated, in the former space of hip-hop pizzeria P.R.E.A.M. This makes the experience bittersweet for "anyone who wants to see this city become aesthetically diverse, instead of continuing as one big cracker factory churning out whimsy and woolen caps."
May 23, 2017
Best Grape Beer We've Ever Had
Upright's Oregon Native, which "tastes somehow like both beer and natural wine at once, a merger of Oregon's two great fermenting traditions in a way that does justice to both."
February 28, 2017
Finest Peruvian Food Portland Has Ever Known
It was at Southwest Portland's Paiche, our 2016 Restaurant of the Year—now open only from 7 am to noon, with a slimmed-down menu.
October 27, 2016
Best Burger
The plainest rendition of the burger at Grain and Gristle, whose beef "comes from a line of Herefords cultivated since 1856 at Oregon's Hawley Ranch."
March 22, 2017
Best Star Wars Movie
Rogue One, which is about "everyday people trying to justify, morally and practically, their roles in the struggles against an overwhelming, evil adversary." Sound familiar?
December 13, 2016
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Inside Mall 205, You'll Find Oregon's Last Remaining Magic Shop
A Vancouver Man Bought Naked Falls Swimming Hole, So He Could Re-Open It to the Public
Rodney Scott Puts On Portland's Greatest Indie Firework Show
Cabel Sasser Found a McDonalds Mural That Led Him to Uncover a Secret Collection of Art
Two College Students Started An Organization to Provide Bras and Underwear to Homeless Women
Jim Hipsher Is Portland's Greatest Live Book of Poetry
These Two Women Make Showing Up for Jury Duty A Lot Less Terrible
On Northeast Broadway, You Can Learn Boxing From Two-Time World Champ Molly "Fearless" McConnell
Portland Urban Golf Makes the Entire Changing City Its Ever-Evolving Personal Golf Course
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Seven Years Ago, New Trail Blazer Caleb Swanigan Was 360 Pounds and Living in Homeless Shelters
Each Week, a Group Goes to Laurelhurst Park to Throw Axes Through the Air—And They're Really Good
Portland Now Has a Nonprofit That Gives Kids Access to Free Pinball
The City of Portland Made a Sign Reading "Heartbreak Dead Ahead"
There's a Secret, Profit-Free Bookstore "Forest" on Division Street
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A Local Business Totally Trolled Willamette Week—And It Was Awesome
The ACLU of Oregon Has Emerged as Portland's Most Consistent Free-Speech Fundamentalists
Division Street's Oregon Theater Is Portland's Greatest NSFW Twitter Account
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Beaverton's Spectra Gymnastics Provides Play Spaces for Kids on the Autism Spectrum
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The Zymoglyphic Museum is a Self-Contained World of Rogue Taxidermy and Steampunk
Every Sunday, Portland Hosts a Real-Life "Fast and the Furious"
Portland's Best Daycaction is a Cheap Flight to Pendleton, Where the Cowboys Still Walk The Streets
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Meet the Portland Poodle Who Dresses Better Than You
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Pet Barn Will Watch Your Boa Constrictor While You're Out of Town, But Not Your Dog
Portland Science Rapper Coma Niddy Has the Best Rhymes About Black Holes You've Ever Heard
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Hero Portland Man Built an 8-Foot Tall Multnomah Falls Out of LEGOs
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Daddy Mojo's Has the Finest Gallery of Signed Celebrity Memorabilia of Any Bar in Portland
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Thank God for the Los Cactus Food Cart, Which, For 14 Years Has Fed Junkyard Customers for Cheap
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You and Your Friends Can Drink for Free for an Hour on Your Birthday at This Portland Bar
The Portland-Area Finally Has Hong Kong-Style Ice Cream Bubble Waffles
Yes, There Is a Place in Portland Where You Can Try Witches' Brews and Heal Yourself with a Fire Pit
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