The Essential 38 Portland Restaurants, July 2014:
It's time to update the Eater 38, your answer and ours to any question that begins, "Can you recommend a restaurant...?" This highly elite group covers the entire city, spans myriad cuisines, and collectively satisfies all of your restaurant needs, save for those occasions when you absolutely must spend half a paycheck. Every couple of months, we'll be adding pertinent restaurants that were...
Updating the Eater PDX Heatmap: Where to Eat Now:
Restaurant obsessives want to know what's new, what's hot, which favorite chef just launched a sophomore effort, etc., and more often than not, tipsters, readers, friends and family of Eater have one question: Where should I eat right now? And while the Eater 38 is a crucial resource covering old standbys and neighborhood essentials across the city, it is not a chronicle of the "it" (ie,...
Lardo's Chefwich Party; Nong's Multicourse Dinner:
SE HAWTHORNE— The sandwich-slingers at Lardo will celebrate the most recent line-up of its "Chefwich" series with a tasting party this Sunday, June 8 at the Southeast location. The $20 entry fee gets guests tastes of all six guest sandwiches that have dotted the Lardo menu in the past six months (check out the line-up at right), while Bend's Crux Fermentation Project engages in a tap takeover....
Watch Nong Poonsukwattana's TEDx Talk:
The independently organized gabfest TEDx held its 2014 Portland edition over the weekend, and as previously reported, food cart success story Nong Poonsukwattana shared her story about "chasing perfection and what I have learned." In an emotional talk, Poonsukwattana reveals the abuse she sustained from an alcoholic father and the dream that "one day I would go as far as I can away from the...