Food Reviews & Stories A Southeast Portland institution and nowadays a brand with its own cooking show, cooking classes and cookbooks, Caprial's still hits the mark with Northwest-style dishes accented with just enough Asian flavor to add interest. A hot-and-sour sweet corn soup with poached cod and cilantro expresses thi   More

Food Reviews & Stories With its superb attention to sound control, Lucy's Table wins for hearing-friendliness: When you can talk to your mates while savoring a roasted-beet-and-pear salad as good as the one served up the street, you score. Lucy's isn't the coolest Portland bistro, but the food is solid and changes with th   More

Food Reviews & Stories Ambitious 25-year-old chef Gabriel Rucker, a former Gotham Building Tavern sous, is pleasing diners with inventive combinations in a simple space. Patrons cluster, like the tattooed flock of pigeons he wears on his right forearm, around Rucker's open kitchen, a perch he ventures from when he finishe   More

Featured Stories Order Gabriel Rucker's salt-rimmed chocolate tart and you'll quickly dismiss any unsavory notions about the commonplace nature of pigeons.This ambitious 25-year-old chef, who wears a tattooed flock of ...   More