THE SWEET SCOOP

Introducing Portland Monthly's Winning Salt & Straw Flavor

Portland Monthly's food editors unmask the winner of our Dream Ice Cream Flavor, available throughout November at all Salt & Straw locations.

11/02/2012 By Allison Jones

INTERVIEW

5 Questions with Tails & Trotters' Pork Experts

Aaron Silverman and Mark Cockcroft share their take on the bacon shortage, porky PDX restaurants, and plans for their new brick-and-mortar butcher shop.

11/02/2012 By Allison Jones

Best Restaurants

Portland's Best Restaurants 2012

Here we go again! You'll never go hungry again with our annual list of PDX's most scrumptious spots to nosh.

11/01/2012

Best Restaurants 2012

Portland's Best Restaurants 2012

Here we go again! You'll never go hungry again with our annual list of PDX's most scrumptious spots to nosh.

11/01/2012

HOLIDAY WINES

Popping the Cork on Oregon Bubbly

When it comes to celebrating with sparkling wine this holiday season, think local first. Here, Portland Champagne expert David Speer shares his take on the state of Oregon bubbles.

11/01/2012 Edited by Allison Jones By Eat Beat Team

Portland Cocktail Week

Portland Cocktail Week in Review

Bartenders from around the country mix it up in Portland.

10/31/2012 By Meaghan Morawski

EAT THIS NOW

The Soup Annex: A New Pop-Up Sensation

How an unknown artisan soup vendor moonlighting as a pop-up hogged the limelight in GQ magazine’s blowout assessment of Portland’s food scene.

10/31/2012 By Karen Brooks

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Kenny & Zuke's Deli Bar

A third K&Z outpost on North Williams brings eclectic cocktails, deli classics, and Franken-food in between.

10/31/2012 By Benjamin Tepler

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

Eat Beat's News to Chew

Top food news stories from around Portland, including Second Story's first anniversary and the closing of Hawthorne's Bird Dog restaurant to make way for Bar Dobre.

10/31/2012 By Allison Jones

BEST OF PDX

Take Five with Flying Fish Co's Lyf Gildersleeve

The owner of the best little fish shop in Portland showcases five fall favorites fresh off the boat.

10/30/2012 By Allison Jones

FOODIE FREEBIES

Win a Copy of Monika Reti's Hipcooks

The culinary maven behind a national network of cooking classes offers a new tome that travels "Around the World in 12 Dinner Parties"...and we're giving away a copy!

10/30/2012 By Allison Jones

New Menu

New Lunch Dishes at Smallwares

Don't miss these new additions to the Smallwares lunch menu.

10/30/2012 By Allison Jones

Slideshow

Slide Show: New Lunch Dishes at Smallwares

10/30/2012

READ EM AND EAT

Powell's Gets Cooking

The City of Books rolls out the red carpet for a series of November events celebrating the sweet and savory side of culinary literacy.

10/30/2012 By Allison Jones

Best of the City

Best Breakfast Spots

In Portland, land of the food-crazy, nothing trumps breakfast. Consider this your wake-up call: the city’s best dishes, biscuits, Bloody Marys, and more. Dig in!

10/29/2012

FOOD AND DRINK EVENTS

Eat Beat Weekly Planner

Our digest of Portland’s top upcoming food and drink events, including Halloween parties at Barwares and What's the Scoop?

10/29/2012 By Allison Jones

Market Watch

We All Scream For Aubergine

What we Yanks call eggplant is so much more exotic when it's called aubergine, as in England – but it’s still a comfort food for fall.

10/28/2012 By Kristin Belz

HOMETOWN PRIDE

Sunshine Tavern Named Top Pizza Spot

In honor of National Pizza Month, Relish names Jenn Louis' Sunshine Tavern one of the top ten pizzerias in America.

10/25/2012 By Allison Jones

WINE EVENT SPOTLIGHT

Classic Wines Auction Fall Dinners 2012

Seventeen local restaurants are once again teaming up with top winemakers for a series of benefit dinners to support Portland-area charities.

10/25/2012 By Allison Jones

Happenings

Distillers Festival Highlights

Spirits were high at the 8th Annual Great American Distillers Festival.

10/24/2012 By Meaghan Morawski