Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! Jenn Louis of Lincoln restaurant in North Portland, Sunshine Tavern in SE, and Culinary Artistry has been named as one of the Best New Chefs 2012 by Food and Wine Magazine. Honest, delicious, sustainable cuisine. “I don’t like too many ingredients or ideas jammed together. You lose the individual ingredients; they can’t be appreciated.” Amen to that. According to the Oregonian, “The magazine solicits suggestions for nominees from former winners and [...]

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! One of our faithful sleuths turned us on to this story, and it’s a PortlandFoodandDrink.com exclusive! Brace yourself; Post Grape-Nuts cereal contains “whole grain wheat flour, malted barley flour, salt and dried yeast”. Hello? What’s missing here? Grapes! There are no grapes in Grape-Nuts cereal. Further investigation reveals the cereal also does not contain nuts. Not a trace of them! Calls to Post for comment have not been returned. What’s next? No [...]

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! The Oregonian got the scoop on two new restaurants that Vitaly and Kimberly Paley are planning for downtown Portland. The “Imperial” will go into the space at the Hotel Lucia recently vacated by Typhoon. The second will be called “Portland Penny Diner”, which will be located across the hall. As I’ve reported before, Ben Bettinger, most recently of Beaker & Flask, will take the chef position. From OregonLive, Paley says the [...]

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! In a recent meeting with the PortlandFoodandDrink.com editors, we noticed a continuing trend. It doesn’t matter where a chef is cooking, if they are lousy at one restaurant, chances are, they will be lousy at the next… and the next… and the next; this is Portland, after all. In order to save our dwindling dollars, we will be reviewing all restaurants based on our past experience with the chef. To facilitate [...]

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! (This was, of course, and April Fools Joke) This town is dense with dining establishments and packed with foodies. For anyone with restaurateur ambitions, it’s a tough market to squeeze into and an even tougher crowd to please. While they may not be your dream themes, here’s a rundown of the four most out-there restaurants about to open for business in Portland: Drive-Thru Sushi The preparation and quality control of sushi [...]

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! Andina Appetizer Your Grill Brush May Be Poisoning You! NPR first posted this story, and it’s so important I decided to rush it into the news!! Your grill brush can send you to the emergency room, for a reason you may have never considered: as you brush the grill, the small metal fibers can break off, and end up in that lovely chicken breast. According to NPR and the “American Journal [...]

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! Photo- Steve Johnson (via www.flickr.com) (Reuters) – It’s the end of a school day in the eastern Chinese city of Dongyang, and eager parents collect their children after a hectic day of primary school. But that’s just the start of busy times for dozens of egg vendors across the city, deep in coastal Zhejiang province, who ready themselves to cook up a unique springtime snack favoured by local residents. Basins and [...]

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! I forgot this news – Trent Pierce of Fin fame has announced that he will be doing “sneak peek dinners” which will feature dishes from his “new seafood concept” which will open later this year. Trent Pierce and partner Benjamin Blank are looking for a space in the Pearl for the new place. I posted the press release a week ago, but if you missed it, you can read the rest [...]

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! Lamb Entree at Andina This story from Esquire caught my eye, The Death of the Entrée. Perhaps I should mention this is a story I bookmarked in October of 2011. Maybe it’s because I haven’t had anything to drink tonight, but I thought the story would be worth some conversation. Anyway, the premise is that the entrée is cliché, that no one really cares anymore, and that what we’d rather have is [...]

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our new survey! <updated> From one of the owners of Gallo Nero, which is going into the old Mr. Jolly’s/Nostro Cafe space at the Elizabeth condominiums in the Pearl District – Thank you for the interest in Gallo Nero. I’m posting to give you information on what is happening in the old Mr. Jolly’s space (actually renamed Nostro Cafe most recently under the same ownership). I and my three partners will be opening Gallo [...]