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Taste Test

One of Portland’s most eclectic oenophiles opens up *Kir*, a tiny, unpretentious East Side wine bar that passes with flying colors.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

Review

Worth Its Salt?

Sel Gris is a new, upscale restaurant on Hawthorne and should be able to live up to its seemingly elemental name.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Japanese Rising

At Tanuki, a diminutive eatery in Nob Hill, sake may be king, but the food that’s paired with it is what holds us captive.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

Restaurant Review

Faulty Fusion

A San Diego chef opens Isabel, her fifth West Coast restaurant in Portland, but is this bastion of healthy cuisine built to last?

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Culinary Matador

A new Spanish-inspired restaurant teaches us to grab the bull by the horns and sing its praises like we mean it.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Down on the Bay

Sustainable seafood, thrice-filtered water and Monica Lewinsky sightings keep the Pearl's Bay 13 packed like a sardine can.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Rolls of Engagement

What's the difference between a "sushi chef" and a sushi chef? The answer may lie in chef Hiro Ikegaya's nigiri.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Bird Feeder

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

Review

Ciao Down

A new, family-friendly Italian eatery comes to restaurant-starved Beaumont-Wilshire. Reservations are definitely necessary.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

Review

Rowdy Rustic

A sophisticated Italian restaurant alights on Sellwood’s main drag and attracts an unlikely crowd of lively Portland diners.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

Just Opened

Braving the Elements

After a few stormy years, chef Naomi Pomeroy opens a tiny Northeast Portland restaurant on her own terms.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

Eat Here Now

Winter’s Repose

A humble public house serving high-end but affordable food on SE Foster Road manages to uplift a weary diner.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

EAT THIS NOW

Malasadas at Oba

If you are a person who tends to forgo dessert, we should warn you: when you visit the Pearl District’s Oba, you may be tempted to change your mind. Oba's fresh take on luxurious banana-and-cream-cheese malasadas (Portuguese doughnuts) is well worth loose

05/19/2009 By Martha Calhoon

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Cool Comfort

At this new eastside bastion of regional American cuisine, the Midwest and the Northwest collude on the plate.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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My Thai

A full review of Pok Pok's new indoor dining room, Whiskey Soda Lounge. Pad thai lovers need not apply.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis