Food Reviews & Stories A Culinary Institute of America graduate running a floating restaurant in Scappoose? Sounds like a crazy idea, until you sit down at a romantic little table on the very edge of chef Mark Altstetter's pier and watch the moon rise over Sauvie Island as ducks glide silently by. Then Mark's far-out addr   More

Special Section Imagine this: It's Saturday night and you're a chef working on the line of one of Portland's busiest restaurants. You're so busy you can't even look up. Your team of cooks and servers have their groov ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Doors will be whisked open by dapper doormen, your eyes will slowly adjust to the moody darkness inside and then the alluring essence of this ritzy steak house will surround you and make the outside world evaporate instantly. Don't expect breathtaking innovation here, just beefy goodness and straigh   More

Food Reviews & Stories The term "screen door" evokes certain images—tall glasses of sweet tea, simple home cooking and lazy summer days silently swaying on a porch swing.Screen Door, the new Southern-inspired eatery o ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories The buzz continues even though there's often a wait for a table, early closings due to dough shortages and stringent rules about toppings (no more than three on any pie). All the hype is for good reason: The cult-worthy pies ($17-$22) here are the size of a Hyundai and feature a crackly-yet-chewy cr   More

Food Reviews & Stories The Northeast Broadway neighborhood has become a bit of a mecca for sushi bars; there are four within a one-mile radius of Lloyd Center. So, the opening of another Japanese joint on Broadway seemed li ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Carnivores rejoice, churrasco has arrived in Portland. The traditional Central and South American meat preparation involves cooking hunks of meat on a rotisserie and serving them in the rodizio style, ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Growing up, I had no idea macaroni and cheese existed in any form other than the wretched stuff in the blue box with the powdered neon-orange "cheese." I assumed the devotion that Americans had to the ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Portland's favorite greasy chopstick: The utilitarian dining room done up in pink formica and wood paneling is filled on weekends with families feasting from the train of rattling dim sum carts that offer up everything from mundane egg rolls ($2.20) to exotic lotus leaf-wrapped sticky rice with pork   More

Food Reviews & Stories This small, family-run spot serves home-cooking from Eastern Africa, a.k.a. "the Horn," including Somalian, Kenyan and Ethiopian cuisines. There's something terrifically sensual about scooping up exotic food with spongy biddeena flatbread, and the mountainous combo plates like the vegetarian sampler   More