Featured Stories I've lived in Paris three different years, each time across the street from a great cheese monger. These are the kind of shops where, if you request some Pouligny-St. Pierre, the clerk asks if you're ... More
Big Cheese
Featured Stories I've lived in Paris three different years, each time across the street from a great cheese monger. These are the kind of shops where, if you request some Pouligny-St. Pierre, the clerk asks if you're ... More
Corner Renaissance
A local trattoria reveals the high and low of Italian eats.
Food Reviews & Stories The Italian Renaissance comes in two flavors: There's the "high" art of Michelangelo and the "low" art of Lucrezia Borgia. Restaurant Renaissance sadly leans to the baser version. You can find a dish ... More
Island Bites
Caribbean cuisine sans the airfare, at Callaloo.
Food Reviews & Stories There are no trade winds at the corner of Northwest 17th Avenue and Glisan Street. But if you duck into Callaloo, the new venture from Capitol Coffeehouse owners Kevin and Colleen Peck, you'll spot la ... More
Grecian Formula
Blue Olive delivers a wealth of traditional eats, but few surprises.
Food Reviews & Stories I have Greek friends who think of their cuisine as entrenched and invariable from restaurant to restaurant. With few exceptions, they say, if you've seen one you've seen 'em all. But there are startli ... More
A Tale Of Two Kitchens
Whether they're behind the butcher-shop counter or cooking brunch in a former rock club, a trio of local chefs provide an extravaganza for serious eaters.
Featured Stories This is a tale of two kitchens. One you'd never notice, since it's only used to cook ingredients that make their way into the deli cases of Viande Meats & Sausage, a grocery-store meat counter that pr ... More
Roman Roulette
A mixed verdict on the beautiful but prosaic Balvo.
Food Reviews & Stories One of the world's great cooks, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, owns several New York restaurants whose titles are pieces of his name, or nickname: Vong, Jean Georges, and Jo-Jo. The superb chef of Portlan ... More
The Italian Job
Sellwood longtimer Assaggio needs to work out some kinks.
Food Reviews & Stories When Assaggio opened in the early '90s, many Portlanders had not learned to say pasta; "spaghetti" was their word, and canned tomato the sauce. So the Sellwood neighborhood restaurant's signature styl ... More
Paris, Portland
Fenouil imports French elegance to the Pearl District.
Food Reviews & Stories Perched on the north side of Jamison Square, 2-month-old Fenouil is already the most glamorous restaurant in the city. If you sit upstairs and look out on the gleaming lights below and across the clas ... More
Mama Knows Best?
Where's the pastrami, the tongue, the brisket, the knishes?
Food Reviews & Stories There are two culinary empires in this town: ripe, whose patron spirit is often dada, and Lisa Schroeder's, whose patron saint is always mama. On the same downtown block that already houses her Mother ... More
Yours, Mine And Ours
Nostrana's antique dishes satisfy contemporary cravings.
Food Reviews & Stories This is the one we have been waiting for: a rustic yet beautiful Italian restaurant with a kitchen that turns out some of the most honest, authentic food in the city.When former Genoa chef-owner Cathy ... More
Top Articles from Roger Porter
A TASTEFUL ORGY
Smaller plates? Just what will Portland's eastside food innovators think of next? Grecian Formula
Blue Olive delivers a wealth of traditional eats, but few surprises. SMALL WONDERS
Patanegra picks up where Tapeo left off. Yours, Mine And Ours
Nostrana's antique dishes satisfy contemporary cravings. Saint Honoré's MIRACLE?
Northwest's croissant central offers some yeasty flavor but not enough authentic tastes. PALEY'S PLEASURES
Now a decade old, this homey Northwest Portland eatery keeps redefining its art. Mama Knows Best?
Where's the pastrami, the tongue, the brisket, the knishes? The Italian Job
Sellwood longtimer Assaggio needs to work out some kinks. ESTABLISHED PLATES
Three Doors Down has expanded--but where's the spread on that reliable menu? Portland's Old Faithful
You'll find few surprises on a return to the reliable, tradition-bound RingSide.
Smaller plates? Just what will Portland's eastside food innovators think of next? Grecian Formula
Blue Olive delivers a wealth of traditional eats, but few surprises. SMALL WONDERS
Patanegra picks up where Tapeo left off. Yours, Mine And Ours
Nostrana's antique dishes satisfy contemporary cravings. Saint Honoré's MIRACLE?
Northwest's croissant central offers some yeasty flavor but not enough authentic tastes. PALEY'S PLEASURES
Now a decade old, this homey Northwest Portland eatery keeps redefining its art. Mama Knows Best?
Where's the pastrami, the tongue, the brisket, the knishes? The Italian Job
Sellwood longtimer Assaggio needs to work out some kinks. ESTABLISHED PLATES
Three Doors Down has expanded--but where's the spread on that reliable menu? Portland's Old Faithful
You'll find few surprises on a return to the reliable, tradition-bound RingSide.
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