Food Reviews & Stories Yes, it’s true Roux owner Dwayne Beliakoff has a much-anticipated, buzz-worthy restaurant slated for the new downtown Park Block across from Fox Tower, but let’s not forget the North Portland Creole cafe that started it all. Long live the croque monsieur salad, the andouille-stuffed quai   More

Food Reviews & Stories Chef-owner Ricardo Segura’s first Portland tapas restaurant, the gone-but-not-forgotten Tapeo, was Willamette Week’s Restaurant of the Year in 1997. Now, more than a decade later, his sprawling restaurant Patanegra, opened in 2005, features six nightly paellas (to be shared by two or mor   More

Food Reviews & Stories There are very few questions necessary at the food-cart-spawned Whiskey Soda Lounge beyond, “Are you out of the…?” If you want to snap up the large-enough-to-be-scary grilled giant freshwater prawns, be an early bird (the wait usually pushes an hour shortly after dinner service be   More

Food Reviews & Stories The dining room is concrete-floor/open-kitchen/cinderblock-walls loud and often brimming with families filling up on immense portions of Southern food while zigzagging servers do their best to keep up. In other words, Screen Door isn’t exactly a romantic spot—unless your heart goes pitte   More

Food Reviews & Stories Although 12-inch, wood-fired pizza is the cornerstone at Ken’s Artisan Pizza—and yes, you’d be a fool to pass on the pie—be sure to eat your vegetables as well. The focal wood-fired oven, surrounded by mezzaluna-wielding cooks, perfects lightly charred, delicious roasted vege   More

Food Reviews & Stories Regardless of the fact that Nutshell owner Adam Berger—who also owns meaterrific Ten 01 and Tabla—doesn’t have a bone to pick with foie gras, the just-over-a-year-old Nutshell is bona fide vegetarian with nothing but love for the meat-free. Although a September revamp added dairy a   More

Food Reviews & Stories God is in the grits and heaven in the hog at the Country Cat. Although the focus is on classic American Southern fare, the twists (molasses-hickory-smoked duck legs, an old fashioned floated with sweetened iced tea in a tall glass) are enough to make you twang in tongues. Chef-owner Adam Sappington&   More

Food Reviews & Stories There are a lot of Mexi spots in town these days that go beyond big plates and tacos, but what sets Trébol apart is an outstanding early/late happy hour, chef-owner Kenny Hill’s penchant for farm-fresh produce, and an enormous, 80-bottle-strong tequila list with more than 10 house marga   More

Food Reviews & Stories Nancy Hunt and Randy Goodman have transformed the space that once belonged to the Red & Black Cafe. Where once was a newspaper clipping of Bruce Springsteen scrawled with the words “The only boss we listen to” is now a sleek bar lined with bottles of single-malt scotch near an expose   More

Food Reviews & Stories Although some Portlanders see a dark shadow over the newly opened restaurant in the space that last housed short-lived and stigmatized Terroir, the restaurant is as earnest and promising as they come. The roster: fresh/local/seasonal dinner and Sunday brunch. Bamboo tables and wicker chairs, deconst   More