A few weeks ago a brilliant plan was launched on twitter to search Shanghai high and low for the best Pho available. While it may seem silly for a guy like me, so fresh to the city, to search for a non-native food, but I was simply following around friends on an adventure. [...]
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Heat and Noise: Shelling in the Year of the Ox
There’s a saying in Mandarin that truly encapsulates Chinese New Year: Heat and Noise (熱鬧 – rè nao). A Mandarin speaker will translate this as liveliness or excitement, but the literal translation is more fun and more elucidating to me. My introduction to Chinese New Year was via Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street so [...]
House Spirits Booze Bazaar
The booze cruise continues around our Distillers Alley in Central South East industrial Portland. First Artisan Spirits threw a shindig, then New Deal threw a hell of a party, now House Spirits is hosting many local and regional boozeries for the House Spirits Hoiday Booze Bazaar. Details from Portland food and drink:
3rd Annual Holiday Booze [...]
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 [...]
Election Night Parties!
Portland likes its lefty politics, beer, and parties. Therefore, this Election Night will cause some heavy drinking, though I think I speak for most every sane person on the planet when I say it better be in celebration, not bitter disappointment and sadness.
All of the events I could find, in no particular order, after the [...]
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 [...]
Organic beer? sun? Yes! NAOBF in pdx this weekend!
The North American Organic Brewers Festival is coming to Portland this weekend at Overlook Park in North Portland!
The line up of beer looks fantastic, including all our local favorites. I’d write more, but I’m just going to quote the website.
The North American Organic Brewers Festival (NAOBF) returns to Portland’s Overlook [...]
Taste of the Taste of the Nation
subtitle: Nesting prepositional phrases = deliciousness
I’m still not sure how it happened, but somehow I got invited to the Media event preceding the Portland Taste of the Nation. Snacks and booze came from:
Simpatica (pate, chicken liver mousse, really good pickles and pickled celery),
Saint Cupcake (toasted coconut & toffee mini-cupcakes, and a chocolate with [...]
Bourdain is going back to Les Halles…. with company
UPDATE: This Episode airs tonight (monday, 3/10) @ 7pm. It’s going to be high-larious.
Tony’s got a new blog, and in the most recent posting, there is foreshadowing of destruction:
‘…I got the bright idea to return to Les Halles, the restaurant where I spent all my waking hours before the writing and the TV thing [...]