Food Reviews & Stories
It’s a ballsy move, declaring your biscuits and gravy
the best in Portland right there on the menu. But when the plate
arrives, it’s hard to argue against a pair of fluffy sweet potato
biscuits
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Your out-of-town guests won’t give you extra points for scenery if you
take them to Yoko’s, which is nestled among nondescript bungalows in the
Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood. But forget scener
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Shaped like oversized M&Ms, the pita at Ya Hala comes out of the
kitchen in steamy, soft heaps, ready to be dipped in your choice of
creamy vegetable or bean paste. Ya Hala offers all the Lebane
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Formerly a long-vacant dry-cleaners, this high-ceilinged and
light-filled room feels less like a full-blown bakery than it does a
homey coffeehouse where one of the owners (Gretchen Glatte) just hap
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Whiskey Soda Lounge opened in December 2009 as a place to grab a drink
during the inevitable 45-minute wait at Pok Pok, but it quickly became
that little brother that outshines its older siblings. L
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There’s a reason Chicago has a high rate of obesity: the hot dogs are
addictive. Wayne’s Red Hot offers the most authentic Chicago dogs this
side of Wrigley, and the small MLK eatery—a haven f
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Food Reviews & Stories
Tucked behind (and partially within) Bread and Ink
Cafe, Waffle Window is so much more than a griddlecake-dispensing
fenestration. The Liège-style waffles themselves aren’t huge, but are
cakey a
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Dwayne Beliakoff’s serially delayed “fast slow food” restaurant has
finally opened in a modernist glass box in Director Park on the South
Park Blocks, just adjacent to a strangely gonadal foun
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Tuk Tuk, named for the three-wheeled rickshaws of
Thailand, serves up colossal portions of Thai-American dishes at
recession-friendly prices. Start out with a Thai iced tea or coffee ($2)
and “Ro
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