Best Restaurants

Best Restaurants <p>Sure, times have been tough, particularly for restaurants. But Portland eateries are dishing up more value than ever before, whether in a fine dining room, an outer Southeast strip mall, or through the window of a food cart. Here’s our guide to venues that tell the story of an era, plus a menu of 12 great meals you can enjoy for less than $20.</p>

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

Currency

Taking Stock

Through the Stock program at Gallery Homeland, group patronage helps to keep local artists afloat.

10/09/2009 By Lisa Radon

Eat & Drink

If you built it...

Architecture of the Sandwich

From the constant changes of the Sausage Sandwich at Clyde Common to the bizarre combination of the hot dog flight at The Original, the variety of Portland's sandwiches mirrors architecture from around the country.

10/09/2009 By Mike Thelin and Eva Hagberg

Cheap Eats

$20 Is The New $50

Leaner wallets call for heftier values.

10/09/2009 By Mike Thelin and Eva Hagberg

Best of the City

Best Restaurants 2009

Signs of the Times

10/09/2009 By Mike Thelin and Eva Hagberg

BEST RESTAURANTS: AN APPENDIX

Snack Track

Stroll the city (or hop on the streetcar) to find these happy intersections of gastronomy and economy.

10/09/2009 By Thomas Cobb and Eva Hagberg

Mudroom

Baptism by Fryer

And you thought your Turkey Day feast couldn’t get any better.

10/09/2009 By Kasey Cordell

CELLAR NOTES

Our Critic’s Top Wine Picks

10/09/2009 By Condé Cox

POUR

Autumn on the Rocks

Bridge the seasons with a dose of old-world bitters.

10/09/2009 By Rachel Ritchie

PORTLAND PLATED

The Italian Job

Give your pumpkin pie a makeover.

10/09/2009 By Martha Calhoon

NEW LISTING

Andina

10/09/2009 By Mike Thelin

INTRODUCING

Nel Centro

Paul Hyman, shares his Corn and Tarragon Bisque secrets with us.

10/09/2009 By Mike Thelin

Introducing...

Bar Mingo

Chef Jerry Huisinga shapes Bar Mingo in much the same way he shaped his previous restaurant, Genoa—through the skillful mastery of simple food.

10/09/2009 By Mike Thelin

News & City Life

FEATURE

Light A Fire 2009

The winners of our annual nonprofit awards are making Portland a better place to live. We tell you how you can help them.

10/09/2009 Edited by Kasey Cordell By Meghan Hilliard, Elizabeth Buelow, and Kelly O'Brien

RIP CITY

Game On!

We look at five members of the reinvented and reimagined Portland Trail Blazers who are ready to answer the call of "Rip City" and lead the team to their ultimate mission: a world title.

10/09/2009 By Benjamin Golliver

Mudroom

Toll Position

Why we should care about Vancouver’s mayoral race

10/09/2009 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Running in Space

A local design firm gives astronauts an athletic edge.

10/09/2009 By Kasey Cordell

Article

Pimp My Ride

A team of gearheads unlocks your car’s hidden potential.

10/09/2009 By Vanessa Chang

30 Seconds With…

Jesse Katz

[Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, author, and son of former Portland Mayor Vera Katz]

10/09/2009

Style & Shopping

Cornershop

Common Threads

For Frances May’s co-owners, style runs in the family.

10/09/2009 By Meghan Hilliard

Travel & Outdoors

Beyond the Bridges

Sayulita Is Mexico's Hush-Hush Resort Town. Get There Before the Word Gets Out.

Sayulita, a tiny village of 2,500, still feels like one imagines it did during the 16th century, when the Spanish first happened upon it. Even the Mexicans began settling it only in 1941.

Light A Fire 2009

10/20/2009