Sardine Head, a “natural wine dive bar” that commandeers indie breakfast café Sweedeedee three nights a week, has cracked the code that bedevils the smartest sommeliers of our day: how to make wine appeal to a generation chugging cocktails and craft brews. Themed wines weave among roughly 50 bottles and 10 glass pours, most priced $10 or less. Information is bare bones: the Read more...
Mae shoehorns a flavorful subset of Southern cooking rarely seen in Portland into a drafty old warehouse behind Old Salt—inspired by the garden-fresh dishes Maya Lovelace grew up devouring at her grandmother Mae’s North Carolina kitchen table and bolstered by produce grown just for the restaurant by Gresham’s Black Locust Farm. Open only three days a week (Monday Meat + Read more...
Nostril-flaring pickles, pastry-wrapped biryani, raita rumbling with garlic juice, baby eggplants resplendent with the crunch of coconut, sesame, and peanuts, and spice-roasted curries that look like swamps but taste like heaven. Make no mistake: Indian cooking has landed on a big plate—more precisely, on a stainless steel tray, or thali—at a well-kept Portland secret, Thali Supper Club. Assam native and local Read more...
