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Restaurant Portland

Olympic Provisions: Balancing Rich Food + Lighthearted Fun

It was a good sign when we entered Olympic Provisions, the surprisingly airy butcher shop/café near Portland’s Willamette River, and saw a sushi case…full of sausage, bacon and ham. That kind of playfulness translated...
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Coffee Portland

red e: cafe with lowercase lettering and uppercase coffee

Most coffeehouses are located in either downtown, Northwest or Southeast Portland, but people at SCAA kept praising some outliers that we felt obligated to try. Even with public transportation as a slow hindrance, red...
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Bakery Sign Portland

Little T American Baker: Pastry Panache in SE Portland

Sometimes gluttony can be a byproduct of proximity. Other times, it’s thanks to an array of tantalizing choices. Both reasons intersected at Little T American Baker, a bakery from Tim “Little T” Healea that...
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Restaurant Portland

Broder: Brunching on Sweden in Southeast Portland

Sweden’s cultural impact is pretty much secure for the ages thanks to IKEA, but we were looking to dig deeper than Swedish meatballs and sofas, so we ventured to Broder, a charming Swedish cafe...
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Coffee Portland

Sterling Coffee Roasters: Caffeinated Currency in NW Portland

During our 2008 trip to Portland, the city was as close to a specialty coffee “company town” as any place in America, with Stumptown Coffee coursing through most espresso machines, Fetco batch brewers and...
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Restaurant Sign Portland

Pok Pok Noi: Authentic? Maybe Delicious? Definitely

What’s more important, that a restaurant’s authentic, or that it’s good? Francis Lam recently questioned the former facet in the NY Times, in an article titled Cuisines Mastered as Acquired Tastes. He focused on...
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