Special Section It’s the final chapter and lingering endnote to our meal, but dessert is often unjustly treated as an afterthought. The inevitable “have you saved room for dessert?” is posed by the ...   More

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I just had a chocolate afternoon. Specifically, a Chocolate Afternoon Tea at The Heathman Hotel, hosted by Michael Recchiuti, renowned chocolatier from San Francisco, whose gorgeous shop in that city's ...   More

Featured Stories Like most right-thinking kids, I was never one to turn down a trip to 31 Flavors or Dairy Queen, but it was Prince Pückler's Homemade Ice Cream in Eugene, Ore., that was the source of my most mem ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Although the kitchen's clean and the furniture isn't secondhand Pho Van maintains the authenticity of a mom-'n'-pop Viet cafe. Entrées like pork chops with grilled shrimp ($7.75) are glazed in the traditional lemongrass and honey marinades while the lotus-root salad ($6.50) is heightened with   More

Food Reviews & Stories Freeze, Please   Cool Moon scoops up PDX’s ice cream dreams.   After a whole summer spent lamenting the lack of a real old-fashioned ice cream shop, Portlanders welcomed the Pearl District’s Cool Moon Ice Cream, which finally opened its doors in mid-December. Serving all-natura   More

Food Reviews & Stories The notion of an ice cream shop right on Jamison Square might be the biggest retail “no duh” of the year; this will be the spot to be for the under-10 set as the days grow warmer. If you’ve been wondering where to find fresh ice cream—not gelato or fro-yo—look no furthe   More

Food Reviews & Stories “Dessert Awesomeness” is the apt legend scrawled across the top of the menu of this North Mississippi cart, which is painted in three fat horizontal bands of brown, white and pale pink like a gigantic brick of Neapolitan ice cream. But rest assured: The housemade, from-scratch desserts e   More