Food Reviews & Stories When the streets are thick with rush-hour auto traffic, biking can feel like swimming upstream. That's why we love the shot of bike friendliness that Black Sheep Bakery infuses into the morning bike c ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories When self-righteous bohemians rail against gentrification—despite being a major watershed for yuppie invasions themselves—I just want to slap them. I can see where the person was coming fr ...   More

News Cari from production gave me a bottle of Metromint Peppermint Water for my birthday, along with a package of cookies and a balloon animal kit. I forgot all about it until a few days later when I woke up with a hangover, opened the fridge and was like, “Mmm, mint water!” My fears that it would taste...   More

News There are only two things better than getting to play hooky when Portland freaks out over a couple inches of snow, and those are sledding in Laurelhurst Park and warming up afterwards with a cookie party.

As a daring departure from my standby Pillsbury or Safeway brand cookies-from-a-tube, my te...   More

Food Reviews & Stories The light-filled Victorian that vegan restaurant Calendula once called home now showcases pastry chef/co-owner Tucker Mortensen's creations. The menu is promisingly streamlined: Often a limited offering is a sign of a attention to detail and quality. Here, this is sometimes the case.A handful of mor   More

Food Reviews & Stories A more relaxed interpretation of the French cafe exists at the quaint, rustic Petite Provence, whose Americanized French offers a healthy dose of stateside excess. The offerings here are more sprawling than at Chef Tucker's: the bakery counter overflows with frog fare like a pain aux raisins ($1.75)   More

Food Reviews & Stories The name "Leaky Roof" brings to mind dampness and disrepair, but this tiny restaurant tucked away in Goose Hollow is anything but, with warm wood floors, candles and a wood-burning stove heating up the dining room. (And no, the roof doesn't really leak.) The stools at the bar are often filled with j   More

News Having grown up Jewish, I never fully understood the American cultural joke that is fruitcake. Looking at the shining photo of jeweled fruitcake resting beneath a Christmas tree in my mother's Betty Crocker cookbook, I wondered, how could a dessert full of maraschino cherries and liquor be bad?

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News Just because it's Christmas, it doesn't mean you have to roast a ham. Find a savior in these restaurants that are actually open on the 25th.

The Heathman Restaurant
The upscale downtown hotel's Chef Philippe Boulot offers both a buffet and prix fixe menu, with holiday treats from slow-roasted leg of lamb to Asian barbeque salmon. And save room for pastry chef John Gaye...   More

News Local organic catering company Phresh debuted its lunchbox delivery service four weeks ago with sandwich and salad options for office noshing. We tried the beef brisket sandwich lunchbox ($9.75 per person) to see if it's worth canceling your company's Quizno account.
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