V-DAY CHEAT SHEET

Valentine’s Day: The Take-Home Edition

Whether you’re flying solo or flocking together, we’ve rounded up Portland’s best Valentine’s Day treats to savor from your love nest.

02/05/2016 By Alex Keith

BREAKING NEWS

Salt & Straw Launching Soft Serve Ice Cream Concept, Wiz Bang Bar

It’s Dairy Queen turned upside down, Portland-style. Eat Beat has the first details on Kim and Tyler Malek’s new sit-down soft serve experience inside Pine Street Market, opening April 1.

01/28/2016 By Karen Brooks

Year in Review

Karen Brooks’s Best Portland Dishes 2015

Portland Monthly’s food critic on the dishes that defined the year.

12/29/2015 By Karen Brooks

NEWS

Earl Blumenauer Teams Up With Salt & Straw to Get Bikes for Kids in Need

The Oregon Congressman is baking his legendary fruit cake. You read that correctly.

12/04/2015 By Marty Patail

FOOD AND DRINK EVENTS

The Eat Beat Weekly Planner: Food Events for Every Kind of Eater

Vitaly Paley and Béla Fleck team up for charity, Flying Fish smokes up a storm, and Tri-Met’s orange-themed picnic comes with new Salt & Straw ice cream flavors and fireworks.

08/19/2015 By Katie Vaughan

FOOD NEWS

Salt & Straw Expands Its Los Angeles Empire

The enterprising ice cream thinkers open two new locations: one in Abbot Kinney, another in the Arts District

08/10/2015 By Benjamin Tepler

The Scoop

Taste Test: Salt & Straw’s Food Cart Flavors

Portland’s ice cream innovators hit the streets to create five new flavors. We got the inside scoop.

06/17/2015 By Karen Brooks

SUGAR RUSH

Portland's Most Creative Ice Cream Dreams

Local spots, from restaurants to pop-ups, flaunt fresh churns on ice cream—and yes, fro-yo!

02/11/2015 By Kelly Clarke

PROFILE

How Salt & Straw Captured Portland in a Cone

The story of the city's rapidly growing ice cream empire, as told through five of Salt & Straw's signature flavors.

08/01/2014 Photography by Karen Brooks

PORTLAND RESTAURANTS

Ranking Salt & Straw's Best (and Worst) Flavors Ever

We look back at ice cream emperors Kim and Tyler Malek's winning creations—and a few that flopped.

07/11/2014 By Karen Brooks

BREAKING NEWS

Salt & Straw Expanding to Los Angeles in August

Portland’s artisan ice cream explorers are launching a shop in LA’s Larchmont Village.

05/12/2014 By Karen Brooks

HOLIDAY EATS CHEAT SHEET

Where to Dine Out this Valentine's Day

This holiday, grab your valentine and head out to one of these decadent date night dinners that suits your style.

02/04/2014 By Kristin Leigh

FOOD AND DRINK EVENTS

Eat Beat Weekly Planner: Jan 8–27, 2014

An Elvis tribute, mushroom extravaganza, classic rock themed beer specials, a Peruvian feast, and more of Portland’s upcoming food and drink events.

01/07/2014 By Kristin Leigh

BEST RESTAURANTS 2013

The Ultimate Week of Portland Dining

Your guide to a week of serious noshing in America's most original food city

11/01/2013 By Karen Brooks

HOT FOOD STORIES

Portland News to Chew

The Woodsman Tavern gets a new chef, Trifecta Tavern gets NYC bar talent, and you get to read about making the perfect at-home coffee (and the rest of the week's restaurant news).

09/10/2013 By Allison Jones

HIT LIST

The Scoop: Breaking Ice Cream Bulletin

Fifty Licks brick-and-mortar details, ice cream CSAs, and the best restaurants to satisfy your frozen dessert cravings.

07/03/2013 By Benjamin Tepler

HOT FOOD STORIES

Portland News to Chew

New late night menu at Accanto, Salt & Straw's SE opening, and more of this week's Portland restaurant and bar news.

07/02/2013 By Allison Jones

HOMETOWN PRIDE

Portland Food in the News

The popularity of Portland chefs continues to proliferate with media mentions (Glamour! Details! Bravo!) from around the country.

06/14/2013 By Julia Raymond

HOT FOOD STORIES

Portland News to Chew

The end of Morso and Hatch, a new Salt & Straw cart in Lake Oswego—and more of the week's Portland restaurant news.

05/28/2013 By Allison Jones

BREAKING NEWS

Coming Soon: Andy Ricker's Asian Food Marathon

With next week’s Pok Pok menu changes and Sen Yai noodle house near completion on SE Division, one man’s Southeast Asian food vision will rise breakfast, lunch and dinner.

04/29/2013 By Karen Brooks