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It’s Official – Balvo to Close

Remember, you read it here days ago! From Oregon Live: A couple of months shy of its first anniversary, Balvo will serve bowls of rigatoni with red sauce for the last time Saturday, Oct. 14. The restaurant is scheduled to reopen for dinner on Wednesday, Oct. 18, with a new, still-undetermined name, more formal decor and Chris Israel at the
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Michael Hebberoy to Start “One Pot” in Seattle

Thanks to “Sam” for the following story from the Seattle PI. STRANGELY, A STRIKING new addition to Seattle’s restaurant scene is going to be a non-restaurant. Vagabond, a regular communal dinner venue “opening” Oct. 23, is a joint venture between Gabriel Claycamp of the Culinary Communion cooking classes and Michael Hebberoy, formerly a partner in a shining-star restaurant empire in
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Review: Saucebox

Note: if a recent happy hour visit is any indication of what is going on in the restaurant, my rating would drop to 1 star. We tried five dishes and were served what can only be described as some of the worst food I’ve had in a Portland restaurant. Pad thai with the texture of baby food. Spring rolls that
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New York City Plans Sharp Limits on Restaurants’ Use of Trans Fats

From the NY Times today: The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously yesterday to move forward with plans to prohibit the city’s 20,000 restaurants from serving food that contains more than a minute amount of artificial trans fats If approved, the proposal voted on yesterday by the Board of Health would make New York the first large city
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Portland Food News for 9/25/2006

After a long dry spell, the news/gossip is coming faster than I can print it. Normally I’d wait another week, but… Okay, this one is pretty far-fetched, but still… I’d hate to have sat on it and found out it is true. Balvo will be closing 23 Hoyt will re-open in it’s place Chris Israel will again be at the
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Should Reviews Have a Rating?

Would you like to be able to give your point score to each review, based on your experiences? I’ve asked this question before, but this site has a lot more readers now. My question is, should reviews include a final score, or rating? The positives: Makes it easy to search for somewhere to eat, based on rating. Makes it easy
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Portland Food News for 9/22/2006

Gourmet Magazine lists America’s Top 50 restaurants. Two from Portland make the list: Higgins at 28, and Paley’s Place at 46. Seattle has one, Canlis. I’ve never been there. Interestingly enough, Los Angeles only had one, Providence at number 35. For it’s size, I’ve never thought LA was a particularly good restaurant town. Apparently, neither do they. ______________________________________________________ What? The
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