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Food Reviews & Stories According to Christian Joly, owner of Northwest Broadway’s French bistro Chez Joly, if you sit in the 50-plus-seat chandeliered dining room and look toward the U.S. Customs House across the stre ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Finally, a restaurant name that’s also a command you should gladly follow. Semantics aside, the New Orleans-inspired menu of North Williams Avenue’s EaT Oyster Bar is racked with fried, st ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Solid omelettes, such as the spinach, bacon and jack ($9.50) or the marinated chicken, cream cheese and black olive ($9.50), float the morning, while sandwiches ($5.50-$10.50), salads ($4-$10.75) and pasta dishes ($9.75-$10) are what’s for lunch. John Street Cafe is all about good, clean food    More

Food Reviews & Stories If you need to remember what good, fresh veggies taste like, Proper Eats can help. This vegan cafe-grocery is loaded with good and good-for-you food. The sesame-peanut noodles ($9) with wilted spinach, grated beet and fried tofu triangles are great. Sit on a pew or at a table, drink a beer ($4 pint,   More

Food Reviews & Stories This Italian bakery-cafe is bursting at the seams—with weekend dinner, last-Saturday-of-the-month zeppole (small sweet fried doughnuts, $1 for three), and daily Italian breads, pastries, sandwiches, tortas and Sicilian and Neopolitan pizza ($12-$25 pie, $2.50-$3.50 slice). You’ll burst a   More

Food Reviews & Stories This funky old carriage house is home to tasty sweet and savory crêpes poured, stuffed and rolled in the Airstream out back. Tour de Crepes’ tables are topped with old doors and the atmosphere is bus-your-own, kid-friendly. Not to say adults aren’t key, especially with the 3-7 pm d   More

Food Reviews & Stories Ohana’s Hawaiian fare is as good as what you’ll find on the islands, and sometimes even better. The Aloha Plate ($10.50) of salt-, garlic- and ginger-rubbed beef short ribs and teriyaki chicken breast with a scoop of sticky rice and mac salad is outstanding. The Spam sushi side wrapped i   More

Food Reviews & Stories Canby Asparagus Farm’s steaming tamales, sold at local farmers markets for more than a decade, have found a permanent home, along with a full Mexi-menu, at this restaurant just south of Sellwood. There are only six tamales on the menu ($6.50, $9.50 with rice and beans), but you can choose from   More

Food Reviews & Stories The tortillas are made in-house at this Mexi market/taqueria, so tacos ($2) come highly recommended with the usual topping options or cabeza (head) and lengua (tongue). If you want a heal-all-wounds savory soup ($8) order the menudo, birria, caldo de res or pollo. They don’t serve beer or wine   More