Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, When a beloved Portland restaurant decides to call it quits, fans go through many of the five Kübler-Rossian stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and accept ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, For years, suds lovers in Portland have kept Chimay close to their hearts. This Trappist beer originally brewed by monks in Belgium has a loyal following, both internationally and ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, It would be easy to make some grandiose analogies about what's soon to take place at 911 SW Taylor St. You could say the Vat & Tonsure's return to downtown Portland after a fi ...   More

News Most Portlanders can point to the herd of steakhouses in this city--Morton's, El Gaucho, Ruth's Chris, et al.--as a trend. Eating meat seems de rigueur; clogged arteries be damned. Scratch a littl ...   More

Music Stories By the middle of the Gossip's show last month at Seattle's Sit & Spin, Beth Ditto hasn't taken her shirt off yet. Maybe she will or maybe she won't. The threesome sprung from Searcy, Ark., and tra ...   More

Featured Stories We treat our celebrities, regardless of artistic merit, like an untouchable royal family, which causes most of us to act like dribbling serfs despite the value of our individual lives.... The implicat ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, So where does the notoriously picky Jerry Seinfeld eat when he's in town to kill 'em at the Schnitz? Seems like pizza's his game. According to Brian Coffelt (he goes by "Big Brian ...   More

News The day after U.S. Senate candidate Bill Bradbury trounced his opponents in the Democratic primary, he sat down for breakfast with a bunch of Portland media types. Bradbury, who is also Secretary ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Miss Dish gets lots of mail from readers. They love to tell her about their favorite places to eat. And Miss Dish relishes such information.A recent email from a gent pitched the fi ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Take a bite of the Poilane (the bread named for and made by France's most famous loafer, Lionel Poilane), shipped all the way from Paris. Now chew on chunks from other local baker ...   More