Eat & Drink

Zero-Proof

A Booze-Free Highball Recipe for the Holidays

The mocktail comes from Ariel Dunitz-Johnson, founder of the nonalcoholic bottle shop Ever AFter.

12/30/2024 By Alex Frane

Zero-Proof

Oregon-Made Nonalcoholic Mixers to Up Your Mocktail Game

Because bitters and soda are overrated.

12/23/2024 By Alex Frane Photography by Michael Novak

First Foods

Oraibi by Javelina Explores the World of Indigenous Cuisine

Lauded chef Alexa Numkena-Anderson utilizes First Foods and precolonial cooking techniques for her new prix fixe dinner series.

12/20/2024 By Alex Frane Photography by Josh Chang

Holiday Guide

Where to Dine on New Year’s Eve

The best restaurants for oysters, Champagne, and prix-fixe meals to welcome 2025.

12/18/2024 By Alex Frane

In Memoriam

Portlanders We Lost This Year: Naomi Pomeroy

The legendary Beast chef and restaurant industry advocate died earlier this year. With months to reflect, this is how her collaborators remember her.

12/16/2024 By Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Food News

Portland’s Oldest East-Side LGBTQ+ Bar Will Close

After 23 years of service, Crush Bar is closing after its final New Year's Eve party.

12/02/2024 By Alex Frane

Game Time

Local Artist Jordan Mishra Johnson Is Releasing an Illustrated Culinary Card Game with Bunnies

Drawn Hungry has players competing to create the best meals.

11/22/2024 By Alex Frane

Reviews

The New Portland Restaurants That Make Us Hopeful

Portland’s food soul rallies again, small and personal to the core.

11/20/2024 By Karen Brooks

openings

Foxtrot Combines Spanish Tapas and Cocktails with Coffee Service on Belmont

The café and bar has taken over the 130-year-old Victorian previously home to the Pied Cow.

11/14/2024 By Alex Frane

Superfan

Children of the Cornmeal Crust

Alison Hilton gave her neighborhood pizza joint plenty of business, and the staff gave her their kids (sort of).

11/12/2024 By Margaret Seiler Photography by Michael Raines

Food News

A New York Pizza Star Will Open Her Own Portland Pizzeria

Miriam Weiskind's pizza pop-up, the Za Report, earned high praise from both Kelly Clarkson and The New York Times. Now, she's popping up in Portland.

11/11/2024 By Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Food News

Kaleidoscopic Cocktail Bar the Houston Blacklight Is Closing

The Clinton Street lounge from the Gado Gado team will say goodbye with a party on November 2.

10/30/2024 By Alex Frane

Food News

The James Beard Public Market Is Finally Opening in Portland—for Real This Time

After decades of starts and stalls, the market has found a location in downtown Portland, to be completed by fall 2026.

10/28/2024 By Alex Frane

all hallows’ eve

Our Favorite Tricks and Treats at Portland Bars and Cafés

From eyeball-topped sundaes to bubbling beaker cocktails, here are five places to get spooky snacks and drinks this October.

10/25/2024 By Alex Frane

Openings

Is Fancy Baby Portland’s Next Great Wine Bar?

Rarefied champagne magnums fill the overseas-inspired bar in the Pearl. But there are plenty of casual bottles around, too.

10/25/2024 By Jordan Michelman Photography by Michael Novak

Wine Country

At Renowned Winery Antica Terra, 'A Very Nice Lunch' Feels Like Art

In a room of witchy luxury at the winery's new Dundee property, winemaker Maggie Harrison and chef Timothy Wastell take visitors on a weird and wonderful journey.

10/18/2024 By Jordan Michelman