BREAKING FOOD NEWS

Ken Forkish to Open Trifecta Tavern & Bakery

America’s first “bakery tavern” will rise this summer on SE Sixth Avenue.

01/08/2013 By Karen Brooks

FOOD EVENT SPOTLIGHT

Pacific Pie Co.'s Annual Pie Contest

Show off your upper crust on Sunday, January 20th with the second annual pie contest to commemorate National Pie Day.

01/01/2013 By Allison Jones

FOODIE GIFTS

Holiday Baskets at Little T

Celebrated pastry chef Kristen Murray unveils a treasure chest of treats.

12/18/2012 By Karen Brooks

OPENING WEEK

Inside SE Hawthorne's Tabor Bread, Now Open

Peek inside Tissa Stein's new neighborhood bakery, offering ten kinds of wood-fired breads made from locally-grown whole grains, milled in house.

11/27/2012 By Allison Jones

Slideshow

Slide Show: Inside SE Hawthorne's New Tabor Bread

We peek inside Tissa Stein's neighborhood bakery Tabor Bread, the first retail bakery in Portland to mill its own flour and bake all its bread in a wood-fired oven.

11/27/2012

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

New Fressen Bakery Rises

Deep under the radar in NE Portland, the cult farmers market bakery adds a brick-and-mortar home for its esteemed German breads, Bavarian croissants and Danish pastries, plus the intrigue of sandwiches and bread-focused specials.

10/24/2012 By Karen Brooks

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

Eat Beat's News to Chew

Top food news stories from around Portland, including Petunia's Pies & Pastries brick-and-mortar and an opening date for Southland Whiskey Kitchen.

09/19/2012 By Allison Jones

READ EM AND EAT

Ken Forkish's Flour Water Salt Yeast is a Veritable Bread Bible

Learn the fundamentals of artisan bread (and pizza!) from a Portland baking legend via his new cookbook out this month.

09/18/2012 By Allison Jones

EAT THIS NOW

Saint Honore Offers History on a Plate

A centuries-old recipe sparks a hunt for the perfect apple at Dominique Geulin's French bakery.

09/14/2012 By Allison Jones

FRESH IDEAS

CSB: Community Supported Bread

Laura Birshan's Bakester is setting out to change the way we eat our loaves.

08/29/2012 By Allison Jones

Read This

Milk Bar, By (Buy) the Book

An irreverent yet exacting new baking bible reveals how to make your own Crack Pie (and other secrets).

11/22/2011 By Kristin Belz

Market Watch

Home-baked But Not Home-made

Don’t call it cheating: Grand Central and Florio bakeries will get a pie or pastry ready for you to bake in your home oven.

11/18/2011 By Kristin Belz

BEST OF PDX

Perfect Pies To Go

Portland's finest holiday desserts, without the performance anxiety

11/09/2011

Review

The Rise of the Small

Good things come in small packages—especially when it comes to local baked goods.

05/20/2011 By Karen Brooks

Interview

5 questions for: writer, baker, and pizza pie maker, KEN FORKISH

The local pastry and pizza master (and now book author-to-be!) weighs on what to eat, where to go, and why eaters love living in Portland.

05/04/2011 By Anna Sachse

Savor

Rhubarb Awakening

Northwest Portland’s Two Tarts Bakery owner Elizabeth Beekley helps us savor the first of the spring crop with a recipe for rhubarb rugelach.

04/22/2011 By Deena Prichep

Market Watch

Sweet & Salty Make a Better Croissant

Find these prized Bavarian croissants from Fressen Artisan Bakery at Portland Farmers Markets. Go early or they'll be gone!

03/29/2011 By Teri Gelber

Eat This Now

The Search for Portland's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

What says perfection…and where you can find it? We pounded the pavement in search of the chewy, the crisp, and the hand-crafted so you wouldn’t have to.

02/23/2011 By Benjamin Tepler

Cheap Eats

Choose Your Own Cheap at Panera Cares

Everyone can afford to eat at this novel new café in the Hollywood district.

01/24/2011 By Anna Sachse

Gluten-Free Find

Dessert Labs Concocts Freakishly Tasty Cupcakes

Whether you’re gluten-intolerant or not, this new Northwest Portland bakery inspires gluttony.

01/17/2011 By Anna Sachse