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Gourmet Frontier

Food carts enlighten local palates and enliven public spaces.

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Street Cred

Pok Pok owner Andy Ricker's latest venture breaks new ground in the heart of Old Town.

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Fair Catch

Bamboo Sushi offers diners a taste of sustainability.

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Under the Incan Sun

Peruvian-inspired restaurant del Inti adds the flavors of the Northwest to a cuisine that embodies cultural fusion

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Joy to the Pearl

With first-rate pasta and rustic pizza, Bella Gioia succeeds in its quest for authenticity.

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Choice Bites

At Evoe, a new eatery next door to Pastaworks on SE Hawthorne Boulevard, diners can discover the true art of snacking.

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Honest Like Abe

On an up-and-coming North Portland strip, Lincoln soothes with humble dishes, simple flavors, and steady service.

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Patriot Games

Good old-fashioned American cuisine—with a few twists—lures the crowds to 50 Plates.

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Cursed Kitchen?

In a Victorian on SE Hawthorne Boulevard, the chef of Belly Timber tries to transcend the building's troubled past.

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Smooth Operator

A $4 million restaurant debuts on a lonely stretch of the South Waterfront. But is the food as opulent as the décor?

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Taste Test

One of Portland’s most eclectic oenophiles opens up a tiny, unpretentious East Side wine bar that passes with flying colors.

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Japanese Rising

At this diminutive eatery in Nob Hill, sake may be king, but the food that’s paired with it is what holds us captive.

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Faulty Fusion

A San Diego chef opens her fifth West Coast restaurant in Portland, but is this bastion of healthy cuisine built to last?

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Winter’s Repose

A humble public house serving high-end but affordable food on SE Foster Road manages to uplift a weary diner.

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Braving the Elements

After a few stormy years, chef Naomi Pomeroy opens a tiny Northeast Portland restaurant on her own terms.

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Ciao Down

A new, family-friendly Italian eatery comes to restaurant-starved Beaumont-Wilshire. Reservations are definitely necessary.

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Rowdy Rustic

A sophisticated Italian restaurant alights on Sellwood’s main drag and attracts an unlikely crowd of lively Portland diners.

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Worth Its Salt?

Sel Gris is a new, upscale restaurant on Hawthorne and should be able to live up to its seemingly elemental name.

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Veganopia

Is Portland’s newest, swankiest vegan restaurant only an herbivore’s paradise, or can carnivores dig the vibe too?

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Tailored Tapas

Does the latest Spanish-inspired eatery to hit Portland pass muster? It does if you customize your meal just right.

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Shaky Ground

When a fine dining establishment called Terroir opens three blocks north of a Popeye's, it's got a lot to live up to. Or does it?

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American Why

When a simple salad of arugula collides with “high-tech American” cuisine, what’s a modern American diner to do?

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Inn Style

For food-weary Portlanders, this downtown culinary refuge offers good company, warmth and sustenance.

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Culinary Matador

A new Spanish-inspired restaurant teaches us to grab the bull by the horns and sing its praises like we mean it.

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Cool Comfort

At this new eastside bastion of regional American cuisine, the Midwest and the Northwest collude on the plate.

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Down on the Bay

Sustainable seafood, thrice-filtered water and Monica Lewinsky sightings keep the Pearl's Bay 13 packed like a sardine can.

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Rolls of Engagement

What's the difference between a "sushi chef" and a sushi chef? The answer may lie in chef Hiro Ikegaya's nigiri.

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My Thai

A full review of Pok Pok's new indoor dining room, Whiskey Soda Lounge. Pad thai lovers need not apply.

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Dinner by Numbers

Is the staff at the Pearl's newest restaurant confident in what they have to offer, or are they covering up for a perceived lack?

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Chintz Charming

After relocating to the northern end of the ever-expanding N Mississippi Ave in December, the new Lovely Hula Hands still offers similar atmospheric enchantment.

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Tenure Track

Chef Dustin Clark has assumed control of the burners at Wildwood.

Bird Feeder

Once More From The Tapas