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Jan 14, 2011
Behind Bars
"I was thinking our slogan should be, ‘For the rest of us,’" laughs erstwhile city council candidate Jesse Cornett. He’s referring to the spanking-new Guild Public House on Lower East Burnside,...
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Jan 5, 2011
First Impressions
Glancing around Grain & Gristle’s warm and woody interior (a U-shaped maple bar, exposed beams, wood table tops and chairs, wooden salt and pepper shakers), I have the distinct impression...
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Dec 28, 2010
Beer Bulletin
Brew pubs are sprouting like dandelions around these parts, what with Cascade Barrelhouse, Migration Brewing, Coalition Brewing, Breakside Brewing, and Hair of the Dog all putting up their "Open"...
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Dec 10, 2010
First Impressions
Tucked away in the Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-like alley otherwise known as SW Ankeny, next to Valentine’s (a lower downtown bar that doesn’t suck) in a space last known as a hair salon, is a new...
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Dec 9, 2010
Behind Bars
Jeff Manning at the Oregonian is reporting that a local group of investors headed by J. Clayton Herring, president of real estate firm Norris Beggs & Simpson, is doing some legwork to bring...
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Nov 23, 2010
New Bars
Some guys were born to be publicans. Bosnian bar owner Muhamed Mujcic-Mufko is such a man. It takes the wiry, snow-haired proprietor of 442 on SE Hawthorne nearly two seconds to welcome a...
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Nov 16, 2010
Beer Bulletin
Be advised that Hawthorne Hophouse, the new Northwest-centric beer bar on SE Hawthorne, is a kid-friendly venue. The presence of children in pubs is a thorny issue among the Portland suds set,...
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Nov 4, 2010
New Bars
So many bars, so little time to linger. Rest assured drinking buddies, that I have been scrambling like Fran Tarkenton trying to patronize as many of Portland’s newly minted watering holes as is...
Thumbnail for - Couture Tacos on Northeast Alberta
Oct 29, 2010
LATE NIGHT
Last night I left work at 10:30 p.m. and I was exhausted and starving and just this side of drunk off of one beer; but instead of heading home to eat a bowl of carrots and pickle relish (pretty...
Thumbnail for - Q&A: Tim Davey
Oct 22, 2010
Five Questions
Like the notion of the Blazers winning the national championship (or Greg Oden not getting injured again), the idea of watching Roy and Fernandez shoot hoops while you sip fine wine in a sports...
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