My Timbers Army buddy Joe Joe, he of tiny stature and big heart, worked at Cava for years, until very recently, and was always trying to get me in there. I resisted for a long time, for the Foster Powell Triangle is not my favorite place to hang in SE, though not as bad [...]
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Absinthe Mania
In high school, before good taste catches up with the mere novelty of liquor, I remember a certain misguided group of friends eschewing the high culture offerings of Prague to find a dingy tourist bar offering ‘real strong absinthe,’ which they consumed straight, hoping to feel the eyelid flutters, teeth grinding and mild neck stiffness [...]
Farmers Market Free for All: Eastbank Portland Farmers Market
Portland Farmers Market: Eastbank
Yuppies, Children and Grazing OH MY!
Every Thursday, May to September.
SE 20th and Salmon, in the Parking lot of Hinson Church.
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The Portland Farmers Market organization spread its wings last May and opened an Eastbank location Thursdays during the summer. Sponsored by New Seasons (the PFM people and New Seasons always [...]
Farmers Market Free For All: Peoples’ Farmers’ Market
Portland has access to a wealth of great produce, from Sauvie Island fruit to Strawberry Hills Beef, 42nd Street CSA boxes to at least 6 weekly farmers markets in greater Portland. In my current state of disrepair, unemployment and generally friendly malaise, Farmers’ markets have been a welcome distraction.
Peoples’ Co-op Farmers Market
Crunchier than [...]
Screen Door: tranny biscuits and man-crushes
Screen Door Restaurant
2337 E Burnside St
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 542-0880
I’d been to the Screen Door once or twice over the years (they opened in 2006, I believe), but the brunch had eluded me, as I’ve been eating at Genies way too much, and I tend to stick to what I know when it comes to breakfast. [...]
Biwa Spring Menu!
I’ve made no secret of my adoration of Biwa. Here first, then properly, then in opposition to vastly deficient Japanese food elsewhere.
I’ve been there so much that I think I know everybody’s name. It colors my opinion, sure–so I won’t go on forever and ever about how good their food is. Okay, [...]
Potato Champion: New Food Cart in da hood
I love that the vacant lot on SE 12th and Hawthorne is becoming a nice food cart haven. The list is now:
El Brasero (they own the new white trailer parked under the billboard and are going to move el Brasero operation in there very soon),
Biggs Brothers Wing Co: fear the ’stache. They operate [...]
Hopworks Urban Brewery
I can’t remember an instance where there was this much buzz surrounding the grand opening of a pub. Christian Ettinger, the brewmaster and owner, was pressing palms and showing off some contract-brew last July, promising HUB would be open, brewing and hopping (no pun intended) by fall. Delays aplenty followed, but pubs, restaurants and [...]
Nuestra Cocina
No one works harder than the Tortilla girl at Nuestra Cocina. It’s a spirit of hard work in the open kitchen; The Executive Chef was toiling away at the grill station while the Sous Chef did the expediting. Tortilla Girl pressed out and hand griddled small, delicious tortillas at a blinding speed.