Portland food news and views
This past weekend I attended the inaugural Portland Radler Festival, AKA “Portland’s Most Refreshing Beer Festival,” organized by StormBreaker Brewing. There was a healthy spread of breweries offering radlers, a fun and laid back atmosphere, and a lot of love for this tasty beverage under the big tent.
Continue reading “Recap: The Inaugural Portland Radler Festival Was Rad”
It’s been a long, busy week but I don’t want to close it out without writing about two unfortunate litigious situations here in the greater Portland area having to do with Killer Burger + Rock and Roll Chili Pit, and Patsy’s New York Pizzeria.
Continue reading “Portland Food World Drama: Killer Burger, Rock and Roll Chili Pit, and Patsy’s”
Each week we will bring you a roundup of public food events in the Portland metro area. It’s not every single event that’s going on, but the ones in particular that catch our eye. Want to submit an event? Fill out this form. Listings curated by Meg Cotner.
Summer Ice Cream Series: Salt & Straw + Xurros
Thursday, August 10, 2017, 8am-8pm
180 Xurros, 2218 NE Broadway Street, Portland
180 will be serving some of their favorite Salt & Straw Ice Cream flavors to go along with their freshly made xurros. More information.
Continue reading “Portland Area Food Events, August 10-17”Portland is full of delicious food, so here are some first impressions on the latest tasty things I’ve eaten recently in town.
Dahi Papri Chaat | Bollywood Theatre. I ate lunch there a while back and really enjoyed the meal, but the dish that has really stuck with me is their Dahi Papri Chaat. It starts with a base of housemade garbanzo bean flour crackers, then topped with small dark chickpeas, little cubes of potatoes, yogurt, cilantro, tamarind chutney, all dusted with chili powder and topped with sev, a kind of crunchy noodle made from chickpea flour paste. I had something like this at Dosa Hutt in Flushing a few years ago, and have been hoping to encounter a similar dish since. It’s quite saucy and very flavorful; a true flavor bomb. I love the contrasts of cooling yogurt and spicy chili powder, earthy chickpeas and tart chutney. I could eat this every day. 2039 NE Alberta Street, Portland. Bollywood Theater website
Continue reading “First Tastes: Sweet, Savory, Salad in Portland”It’s interesting to see what you need to do to add functionality to your website, and to “expand your reach,” as they say. The next step for this blog is its taking part in the community Bloglovin’—according to Wikipedia it is “a platform that allows users to read, organize, and discover their favorite blogs.” In order to participate, you must “claim” your blog by posting a snippet of HTML in a new post. Instead of trying to slip it in surreptitiously (as much as one could), I’m just going to be transparent with it and put it out there like this.
And so it goes in the blog building network—onward!
