Food Reviews & Stories People open restaurants for a myriad of reasons: to present a cuisine close to their hearts, to create a community of clients for sharing good times, to make a buck. But all that matters to the cu ... More
Two Starches?
Cafe Dacx is a pleasant new neighborhood restaurant that needs to find a focus.
Food Reviews & Stories People open restaurants for a myriad of reasons: to present a cuisine close to their hearts, to create a community of clients for sharing good times, to make a buck. But all that matters to the cu ... More
Go Tell It on the Mountain
A Scottish restaurant nestled in a local resort is bogged down by inconsistency.
Food Reviews & Stories In the early '80s, Portland's most distinguished restaurant was Le Cuisinier, a downtown hole-in-the-wall owned and run by a very young man who was considered one of America's most promising new c ... More
Serratto All Over Again
This upscale Italian restaurant in Northwest overcame a bumpy start.
Food Reviews & Stories As the anchor of Portland's little Little Italy--a row of restaurants on Northwest 21st Avenue that includes Caffe Mingo and Tuscany Grill--Serratto is by far the most ambitious. But the successor ... More
Restaurant Guide 2001-- everything looks better after a meal
During times like these, the communal feel of a restaurant can come to the rescue.
Food Reviews & Stories Restaurant Guide 2001 IndexThe RestaurantsWelcomeEverything looks better after a mealShop TalkSecret Seattle--six eateries up north.Year of the Frog?Thrill SeekersThe very word "restaurant" comes from ... More
Restaurant Guide 2001-- year of the frog?
in 2001, portland's culinary scene leaned toward france.
Food Reviews & Stories Restaurant Guide 2001 IndexThe RestaurantsWelcomeEverything looks better after a mealShop TalkSecret Seattle--six eateries up north.Year of the Frog?Thrill SeekersTrends do not sweep through Portland' ... More
Restaurant Guide 2001-- thrill seekers
two new restaurants, mint and bluehour, nourish portlanders with excitement.
Food Reviews & Stories Restaurant Guide 2001 IndexThe RestaurantsWelcomeEverything looks better after a mealShop TalkSecret Seattle--six eateries up north.Year of the Frog?Thrill SeekersAmong the restaurant openings during ... More
Without A Paddle
Rivers American Grill is long on view and big on portions, but is that enough?
Food Reviews & Stories The instant you enter Rivers American Grill you sense that everyone is acting as if he or she were somewhere else: Cancun perhaps, or Maui. A tropical-resort hilarity assaults you; the band on a s ... More
Elephants in the Midst
The North Plains Elephant Garlic Festival didn't stink.
Food Reviews & Stories The unhappiest looking group of visitors at last weekend's North Plains Elephant Garlic Festival was a pack of greyhounds. Several of the sleek dogs were strolling in front of a stand that sold ga ... More
Le Restaurant
Zinc Bistrot attempts the hard task of replicating a real French bistro. And it's almost there.
Food Reviews & Stories Some restaurants, like some people, have visions. The 19th-century French philosopher Brillat-Savarin, whose Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy attempted to endow foo ... More
Your Guide to Legin
This legendary Chinese restaurant offers hundreds of items on the menu, but you don't need to try them all unless you want to.
Food Reviews & Stories When you confront a menu of some 250 items, deciding what to choose for dinner is more daunting than Napoleon's plotting his assault on Russia. The ever-mysterious Chinese menu writers don't help: ... More
Top Articles from Roger J. Porter
Your Guide to Legin
This legendary Chinese restaurant offers hundreds of items on the menu, but you don't need to try them all unless you want to. What's Wrong With the French
An ultra-long and fine meal at a French restaurant inspires our critic to ponder the differences between us and them. Technicolor Flavors
The hot peppers and flaming colors of Andina deliver a Peruvian education in the Pearl. Two Starches?
Cafe Dacx is a pleasant new neighborhood restaurant that needs to find a focus. Start with the Cup O'Lava
JoPa is staking a claim on Italian dishes and one wicked dessert. BIG GLASSES, SMALL PLATES
Meet Navarre, the newest kid on the block. Elephants in the Midst
The North Plains Elephant Garlic Festival didn't stink. Madame Butterfly: The Program
A review about a restaurant named for an opera written in the style of a musical. Got it? Hail To The Chef
Lucere's Pascal Sauton is routinely charged with being a nice guy. And sometimes nice guys finish first. A Bone to Pick
The latest 'cue hut in town, All Yall's, takes too many lessons from the world of fast food rather than the world of the pit.
This legendary Chinese restaurant offers hundreds of items on the menu, but you don't need to try them all unless you want to. What's Wrong With the French
An ultra-long and fine meal at a French restaurant inspires our critic to ponder the differences between us and them. Technicolor Flavors
The hot peppers and flaming colors of Andina deliver a Peruvian education in the Pearl. Two Starches?
Cafe Dacx is a pleasant new neighborhood restaurant that needs to find a focus. Start with the Cup O'Lava
JoPa is staking a claim on Italian dishes and one wicked dessert. BIG GLASSES, SMALL PLATES
Meet Navarre, the newest kid on the block. Elephants in the Midst
The North Plains Elephant Garlic Festival didn't stink. Madame Butterfly: The Program
A review about a restaurant named for an opera written in the style of a musical. Got it? Hail To The Chef
Lucere's Pascal Sauton is routinely charged with being a nice guy. And sometimes nice guys finish first. A Bone to Pick
The latest 'cue hut in town, All Yall's, takes too many lessons from the world of fast food rather than the world of the pit.
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