Not too many years ago two adorable people decided to open a tiny cafe in North Portland. I’ve eaten there many times and befriended them at least a little bit–they’re some of the few people who comment on this here blog from time to time–and I was saddened to hear a few weeks ago that [...]
Posts under ‘stumptown’
Pardon the Dust, or Eat it
Howdy Folks! Things will be changing a bit around here, because I hightailed it out of PDX for the new challenge that is Shanghai, China. I’ll be here for a while with girlie, and I’ll be blogging as best I can, you can buhleeee’ dat.
I’ve already seen some amazing feats of architecture, had a cabbie [...]
Lincoln Restaurant gets lucky
Lincoln Restaurant
3808 N Williams No. 127
Portland Oregon, 97227
503.288.6200
Tuesday Saturday, 5:30 – Close
Barney Gumble: 40 dollars!? This better be the best damn beer ever.. [drinks beer] You got lucky.
I could leave it here, my opinion of Lincoln, a newish restaurant on N Williams. The food is straight forward–almost to a fault–and excellently prepared from fantastic ingredients. [...]
Green Dragon changing hands
First reported on BrewPublic and currently coursing through the PDX Twitterverse, the Green Dragon, Portland’s new but favorite institution for great beer, is being sold to Rogue Brewery.
Rogue’s lawyer requested a retraction of the initial report at BrewPublic, but the information they refute is in conflict with information I heard directly from two current Green [...]
New Deal Open House
I’m an idiot. I apologize. the Open house is for New Deal distillery.
November 15th, 2008: Distillers’ Row Open House
Join New Deal Distillery and Oregon Bounty to discover the innerworkings of Portland’s first vodka distillery and learn more about craft-distilling in Oregon. We’ll have distillery tours, treats from Meat Cheese Bread and Saint Cupcake, and, of [...]
Booze Crews #7: Blitz Ladd
Blitz Ladd
SE 11th and Sherman (next to Kettleman’s Bagels)
Blitz Ladd is the new Eastside outpost of everyone’s favorite sub-species of Pearl Rat, the aging fratboy. I’ve never been to the Pearl location (at 110 NW 10th Avenue, (503) 222-2229 but I’m sure that it’s not quite the place that I’d spend much time.
Blitz [...]
Artisan Spirits Open House
I met the Artisan Spirits Public Relations team at the Great American Distillers Festival in august, when Liz and Dan were in town doing their best to train for their Snake Whiskey future in the Far East. They stuck out for me for two reasons: first, their PR people were both quite cute and [...]
Ken’s Artisan Pizza — making lots of dough
Ken’s Artisan Pizza
304 SE 28th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97209
503.517.9951
Ken Forkish likes dough, and Ken’s Artisan Pizza makes a lot of dough in every sense of the phrase. I checked it out on a Thursday night in January, again weeks later for my last two handed meal before the unpleasantness. I returned after a [...]
Evoe
Evoe
3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland Oregon 97214
503.232.1010
(connected to PastaWorks)
Hawthorne certainly has changed since I first moved to Portland. ‘Twas once the highest concentration of hippies in portland — there were four head shops and you could see each of the others from the front door of any — until housing prices started going up and [...]
Meat Cheese Bread
Meat Cheese Bread
1406 SE Stark St
Portland, OR
503 234 1700
open 7am -7pm
Monday-Saturday.
Meat Cheese Bread is nestled between some edgy shop and the Thai Thai branch that hasn’t had a customer since 1989, just east of the Vegan Mall. I recall seeing the paper on the windows and some vague rumor about the spot months ago, [...]