Bite Club We've been stewing over Gravy's gravy for what seems like months now--yet the damn place just opened 14 days ago. The Bite Club first heard several months ago that chef Mark Greco was planning to open ...   More

Bite Club The Bite Club doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about the bizarre logic of corporate conglomerates. But Starbucks Coffee's new "Customization Tumbler," which comes with a packet of cartoon decals a ...   More

Bite Club Mike Haedrich's microwave epiphany came with pea soup. The Portland man was nuking a bowlful, a process that, as any seasoned microwave user knows, requires a couple of stop-and-stir cycles. Haedrich ...   More

Bite Club Three levels underground, across the street from his new downtown headquarters, Pazzo Ristorante, chef John Eisenhart revealed his secret ingredient: an orange-red 1964 Galaxie.You were expecting saff ...   More

Bite Club Some folks cater to the notion that a candlelit restaurant dinner--as belly-churningly expensive as a private lingerie modeling session at Aja's--is the only ticket to the tunnel of love. But a sumptu ...   More

Bite Club Lucy Brennan plays by her own rules: shake, smile and slap it hard. Hell, Bite Club has lived by that mantra for years.But in the case of Brennan--P-town's first lady of the cocktail--these commandmen ...   More

Bite Club "I love vegetables, but I don't think people should be vegetarians." Those meaty words come from author-illustrator Mollie Katzen, whose influential 1977 vegetarian tome The Moosewood Cookbook--comple ...   More

Bite Club Just in time to cure lingering aftershocks of cabin fever, now comes an invitation to soup night, thanks to Carlton Winemakers Studio. The studio, the state's first ecologically certified "green" wine ...   More

Bite Club After a month of forced cultural and gastronomic hibernation--in favor of mall treks and family gatherings--we're warming you up with a week's worth of edibles and cold-weather food news. When we hear ...   More

Bite Club After the double economic downturn of the past two years, local eaters turned out once again to fill Portland dining rooms. This year, longtime local chefs opened a slew of new concept restaurants, wh ...   More