Best Restaurants

Best Restaurants Restaurant editor Karen Brooks fixes her keen eye on Portland's Best Restaurants and the 35 greatest meals that the city has to offer.

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

Web Exclusive

Video: Mariachi Singer Edna Vazquez

10/27/2011 Edited by Stephen Person Videography by Markus Shearer

MUSIC

Video: Mariachi Singer Edna Vazquez

A genre-bending Portland-area mariachi singer becomes a Spanish-language TV sensation.

10/27/2011 Videography by Markus Shearer and Stephen Person

Culturephile

High Note

A genre-bending Portland-area mariachi singer becomes a Spanish-language TV sensation.

10/14/2011 By Anne Adams

Mudroom

Do This Now November 2011

David Sedaris and John Hodgman are coming to town and Portland rock icons Sleater-Kinney will all be in the same place at the same time.

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

DIY Five

A Portland artist’s new book lends kids a crafty hand for the season of indoor fun.

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Vox Populi:We Take the Masses’ Pulse on Crucial Topics on Our Facebook Page

As we head for another season of rain and chill, what best describes your fall and winter recreation plans?

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Five Questions For DJ Heatesca

The daughter of a country music star makes her mark in portland’s dance scene.

10/14/2011 By Ramona DeNies

Scene & Heard

Long Gone Blonde

The Place: The grave of Mayo Methot—once Portland’s most celebrated silver-screen bad girl and wife of Humphrey Bogart.

10/14/2011 By Brian Libby

Mudroom

PDX Index: Blazers Bust?

10/14/2011 By Ramona DeNies

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: November 2011

The guests we’d most like at our dinner table this month.

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Jump Start

How ’70s skyjacker D.B. Cooper’s leap launched our greatest (and maybe last) modern outlaw myth.

10/14/2011 By Julian Smith

Web Exclusive

Video: State Of Undress

Russell Bruner "behind-the-scenes".

10/14/2011 Edited by Stephen Person

Long Story [Short]

The Villain

Russell Bruner, 30

10/14/2011 By Georgia Perry

Behind the Scenes

Video: State Of Undress

Go behind the scenes of our very entertaining photo shoot with award-winning dancer and local burlesque phenomenon Russell Bruner.

10/14/2011 Videography by Stephen Person

Eat & Drink

Best of the City

Portland's Best Restaurants 2011

Eat, Play, Love: 35 Divine Dining Experiences

11/22/2011 By Karen Brooks

Best Restaurants 2011

Eat, Play, Love: 35 Divine Dining Experiences.

10/19/2011 Edited by Rachel Ritchie and Karen Brooks

Best Restaurants 2011

Best Restaurants 2011: Amped Up

Grain & Gristle, Beaker & Flask, Skin & Bone; local restaurateurs have discovered that the secret ingredient to success seems to be the ampersand. Here are a few more we’re hoping to see soon.

10/14/2011 Edited by Rachel Ritchie and Karen Brooks

Pour

Champagne Pix

Local dessert maven Cheryl Wakerhauser shares her top bubblies for the season.

10/14/2011 By Benjamin Tepler

Features

Greener Pastures

After four generations, Cory Carman’s family ranch teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. To save it, she’s betting on a new kind of consumer, old methods, and her own idealism.

10/14/2011 By Hannah Wallace

RECIPE

Fall Colors

A marriage of ripe persimmons with seasoned duck breast brings out autumn’s flavors.

10/14/2011 By Deena Prichep

IN THE KITCHEN

Video: In the Kitchen with Kevin Gibson

Evoe chef Kevin Gibson walks us through the steps of preparing his seasoned duck breast with fresh fall fuyu persimmons.

10/14/2011 By Benjamin Tepler

Editor's Note

Article

Editor’s Note: Dining Destinations

10/14/2011 By Randy Gragg

Home & Real Estate

Habitat

Family Circle

A unique architectural remodel on Mount Tabor envelops its owners in warmth.

10/20/2011 By Amara Holstein

Mudroom

Plantwise: Autumn Attack Plan

The falling foliage is not only eye-catching, but it makes for great compost.

10/14/2011 By Kate Bryant

Mudroom

So Happy Together

Synergies abound as local entrepreneurs shack up.

10/14/2011 By Eleanor R. Brown

News & City Life

Mudroom

Wu’s Next?

The scandalous past and possible future of Oregon’s wildest House district.

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

FEATURE

Light A Fire 2011

Our annual celebration of the nonprofit community highlights the individuals and organizations who are making Portland a better place to live, love, and grow.

10/14/2011 By Lucy Burningham