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Food Reviews & Stories Crush hits all the right notes with friendly bartenders, pumping (but not obnoxious) music, a queer-friendly crowd and a long drink menu riddled with tempting libations. It may take you 15 minutes to pick your poison, but rest assured, it will appease. The Pear of Panties, served on the rocks, is a    More

Food Reviews & Stories With 15 well-selected taps, Roscoe’s is a diamond in the rough for beer drinkers, and only beer drinkers. When asked, “What’s your house specialty?” the bartender confusedly replied, “Do you mean which beer is the best?” Hidden in the outer-Southeast enclave of 82   More

Food Reviews & Stories Neighborhood veterans and area college students flock to this dive bar, with its cheap beer, shuffleboard and several pool tables, like a kid to a comfort blanket. And for good reason. The Black Cat has been serving up frosty pints and stiff pours since before most WW readers were born. In the summe   More

Food Reviews & Stories Housed in Portland’s historic Powers Building (built in 1887), Paddy’s stocks a ceiling-high, seven-shelf bar that is at least 30 feet long. That’s a lot of booze. If you’re not in the mood for Jameson or Smithwick’s, try the house-special lemon drop. Paddy’s bart   More

Food Reviews & Stories For a bar, Mother Maybel’s has versatility and charm. It dubs itself a martini bar, but the cushy space serves up more than just a fine lemon drop. The Pirate Moscow (dark rum, lime, sugar and Cock ’N Bull ginger beer) is a refreshing sipper, and its companion drink, the Dark and Stormy,   More

Special Section ILLUSTRATION: Lloyd Eugene Winter IVFor any person who drinks regularly, there’s one question that seems to linger at the end of every night: Am I shit-canned enough to get a DUII? As a precauti ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories This minuscule sandwich shop sports a terrifying arsenal of gut-busting sandwiches. The most daunting of these is Gretchen’s Flagrant Delecti ($7.75), a pillowy french roll crammed with turkey, salami, ham, provolone, cheddar, pickles, tomato, olives, red onion, lettuce, garlic-Parmesan vinaig   More

Food Reviews & Stories The zealously friendly staff at this family-friendly kitchen serves up classic lunch fare like BLTs ($7.29) and turkey with cranberry relish ($7.99) to Northwesterners hunting for a solid American meal on the cheap. Nancy’s breakfast menu steals the spotlight with a luminous glass case stocked   More

Food Reviews & Stories This health-bent local chain has been keeping hasty, hungry Portlanders full and fast since 2000. Laughing Planet’s bowls ($4.75-$7.25) and burritos ($4.25-$6.25) range in inspiration from Mexican (beans, rice, corn) to Asian (rice and vegetables) to good ol’ fashioned comfort foods (yes   More