Dear Friends, We have good news. Portland is having its most exciting year of dining in the last two decades. Yes, we are still living during times when such a statement must be presented with a caveat. Restaurants and the entire food world that is peripheral to them are still feeling hard times, choking on…
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The Burger Issue
Dear Friends, A burger is an indulgence of the highest order, conforming to roughly zero of the prevailing dietary trends or social mores. Burgers are permissive, they give pleasure, and they fuse immediacy and cultural expression with seamless grace, asking only for rolled sleeves and open minds in return. Consider this: nearly every bar in…
A guide to late-night munchies from Feast Portland
Dear Friends, Portlanders are funny about nightlife. Ask twenty of your Portland friends (as I did, more or less) about their favorite late-night stuff around the city, and you’ll get twenty kind of same-y answers (as I did, more or less) about how “I don’t really go out anymore,” and “Portland’s not great for stuff…
Little planets in glass and cork
Dear Friends, A couple of weeks ago, a longtime Feast collaborator shared how her Feast body memory kicks in when the fall air lands on Portland in the beginning of September. “The cooler mornings remind me that it’s almost time.” I was feeling it, too. For all of us who produced the festival over the…
Where are we getting pizza tonight?
Dear Friends, We are excited to dedicate this entire edition of the Feast Portland newsletter to what is arguably the most democratically approachable, globally adored, and universally craved foods on the Earth. We are talking about pizza. There may be great food all over the globe, but visit any notable culinary capital on any continent,…
Is this the most important restaurant in Portland?
Dear Friends, I grew up just outside of Portland, born to an extended family of excellent home cooks—avid restaurant goers, not so much. When we did go to restaurants, my father, a child of the Great Depression, prioritized value as the foremost attribute of a dining experience. That’s why just about every restaurant meal of…