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, boasting fresh-from-the-oven bread delivered weekly.

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

Portland’s microbaking scene is cooking in unexpected places.

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

Two Tarts Bakery teaches us to wrap up the local harvest in delicious crescent cookies.

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