Devour 2011: Wine, Beer & Spirits

Food Reviews & Stories The Beermongers  1125 SE Division St., 234-6012, thebeermongers.com. 11 am-10 pm Sunday-Thursday, 11 am-11 pm Friday-Saturday. [BEER] Get your beer to-go or at the bar at the Beermongers bottle    More

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 WW Culture Staff

Devour 2011: Wok and Bowl High School

From baking cookies to slaughtering pigs—a primer on Portland’s cooking classes.

Food Reviews & Stories In a city where eating is virtually a religion and chefs its deities, many of us harbor fantasies of baking the perfect croissant, hand-pulling noodles and creating our own porchetta from scratch.    More

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 RUTH BROWN

Devour 2011: I Need...

Food Reviews & Stories ...a pickling crock Whether you’re jumping on the fermented-foods bandwagon or just really love sauerkraut, a large-scale pickling operation calls for a large-scale fermenter. While you could make   More

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 WW Culture Staff

Beer And Brine

Grain & Gristle is the neighborhood bar you wish you had.

Food Reviews & Stories When chef Ben Meyer left Ned Ludd last year to open a public house with Upright Brewing’s Alex Ganum, the city’s fooderati wondered how much of Ludd’s elevated spin on rustic ingredients would   More

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 BRIAN PANGANIBAN

The Chocolate Maker

Portland’s first bean-to-bar chocolate is dreamy.

Food Reviews & Stories Charley Wheelock is a man with big dreams. Sitting on his back deck in inner Southeast Portland, he talks of building a chocolate factory   More

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 RUTH BROWN

Bloomsday

Gregory Perrault runs June on flower power.

Food Reviews & Stories A dinner at June is intensely floral. By this I mean not only that the petite restaurant, opened last summer by former DOC chef Gregory Perrault on a previously unattractive stretch of East Burnside   More

 

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 AARON MESH

Big In Japan

Shigezo curries favor with Rising Sun comfort food.

Food Reviews & Stories A handmade sign hangs in the men’s room of Shigezo Izakaya, promising the purchase of “a fancy Japanese toilet” to match the one in the ladies’ lavatory once the restaurant hits 50,000 cust   More

 

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 AARON MESH

Are you Lonesome’s tonight?

Late-night laughs with a side of pizza.

Food Reviews & Stories “Be good and you will be lonesome,” says the Mark Twain quote on the front of a Lonesome’s Pizza box. Twain might not have been talking about pizza specifically. And who knows if what he says    More

 

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 BECKY OHLSEN

Pre-Midnight Express

Secret Kebab will serve you anything (sometimes), so long as it’s kebab.

Food Reviews & Stories Secret Kebab, as the name might suggest, is a kebab-smuggling operation, steered by the unseen hand of a shadowy, mustachioed figure known as Alparslan the Turk, who is also suspected of being a li   More

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Eat Mobile 2011: Start Your Own Food Cart!

Food Reviews & Stories It’s time to get out of the rat race, man, time to be your own boss. Quit your job, give your manager the finger and make your own way. Over 600 food cart-owners can’t be wrong—there’s gold in   More

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 WW Culture Staff