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

Latina singing sensation Edna Vazquez demonstrates three distinct types of mariachi music in an exclusive video performance.

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

Vancouver's Edna Vazquez is a rising star on Spanish television.

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

Joel Henriques’s fantastic finger puppets are coming for YOU!

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

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

Have you got some winter adventure plans? If so, please share.

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Five Questions For DJ Heatesca

A lady DJ with sterling genes talks about her rise to local prominence.

10/14/2011 By Ramona DeNies

Scene & Heard

Long Gone Blonde

Humphrey Bogart's ex-wife—and film femme fatale—Mayo Methot rests in peace in Portland.

10/14/2011 By Brian Libby

Mudroom

PDX Index: Blazers Bust?

It's going to be awful quiet around here without the Trail Blazers.

10/14/2011 By Ramona DeNies

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: November 2011

An idealistic mayoral candidate and an ambitious strip club boss at the same table? Only in Portland.

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Jump Start

D. B. Cooper: the last great western outlaw—and counter-culture icon.

10/14/2011 By Julian Smith

Web Exclusive

Video: State Of Undress

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

10/14/2011 Edited by Stephen Person

Long Story [Short]

The Villain

He's the mustachioed bad guy in the Wanderlust Circus, but Portlander Russell Bruner also performs swing, acrobatics, and a racy burlesque striptease act. This month, he offers us a glimpse into his glamorous life—onstage and off.

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

All of the best culinary minds in Portland understand the power of pairing.

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

Pour

Champagne Pix

Pix Patisserie's Cheryl Wakerhauser bubbles over with Champagne advice.

10/14/2011 By Benjamin Tepler

Features

Greener Pastures

After four generations of raising cows, Carman Ranch teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. Now, after eight hard years of applying new science, old methods, and high idealism, 32-year-old Cory Carman may have finally discovered the key to saving the family

10/14/2011 By Hannah Wallace

RECIPE

Fall Colors

Evoe’s Kevin Gibson opens his recipe book to teach us how to make use of persimmons (and duck) for fall feasting.

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

With curves and swoops in every direction, Edgar Papazian’s head-turning architectural remodel on Mount Tabor creates a home that wraps his family in a warm embrace.

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

Portland businesses make ends meet through cooperation and cohabitation.

10/14/2011 By Eleanor R. Brown

News & City Life

Mudroom

Wu’s Next?

David Wu's congressional seat has a storied past—and present.

10/14/2011 By Zach Dundas

FEATURE

Light A Fire 2011

Our annual celebration of giving highlights the extraordinary work of 14 nonprofits and individuals working to better our community, from farmers who donate millions of pounds of food to fight hunger to high school students who help immigrants become Amer

10/14/2011 By Lucy Burningham