Restaurant Closure

Last Call

After nearly 100 years downtown, dive bar Virginia Café gets 86ed.

05/19/2009 By Jonathan Fine

INTRODUCING ...

Lucier

Lucier has been open for only a few weeks. Yet the dining room is full, mostly with groups of men and women in business suits sipping champagne and feasting on structurally arranged food.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Japanese Rising

At this 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

Cheap Date

My Brother’s Crawfish

Forsaking My Brother’s Crawfish because of its out-of-the-way location or its owners’ seemingly tenuous relationship to authentic N’awlins fare would be a mistake.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

Restaurant Review

Faulty Fusion

A San Diego chef opens 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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New World Order

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

DINING

Dixie Picks

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

Pizza on Earth

Slice of Life

Life is a banquet.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Bird Feeder

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Gaucho Gourmet

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Simply Fed

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Awe Shucks

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Let it B

05/19/2009 By Sylvan Goldberg

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Cosa Nostrana

05/19/2009 By Sylvan Goldberg

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Gilty Pleasure

05/19/2009 By Sylvan Goldberg

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