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Uwajimaya Coming to Chinatown?

I first got an inkling of this news from Mike Thelin over at the Burnside Blog, in a profile he wrote on City Commissioner Erik Sten. Now, as confirmed by the Portland Development Commission, popular Asian supermarket chain Uwajimaya is strongly considering opening a store in Portland’s downtown Chinatown neighborhood. Although I’ve heard rumors that they have been sniffing around
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Snubbed!

Frank Bruni of The New York Times recently left New York and to do “an intensive stretch of dining elsewhere in the country.” After all the love from The Times over the past year, I thought he would make it to Portland, especially since he was right up the road in Seattle. Instead, he says “I bypassed Portland — where,
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Cleaning Out My Inbox

Last year at this time, we had so much news it was impossible to keep up. Restaurants were opening everywhere, chefs were moving, rumors were flying. In a telltale indicator of our current economic woes, nothing seems to be happening, or at least nothing I’ve found has been worth reporting. I’m more than a bit worried by the lack of
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Lovely Hula Hands

SADLY, THIS RESTAURANT CLOSED IN EARLY 2010 For the past six months, my friend Nancy has been trying to get me to go to Lovely Hula Hands. To be honest, I wasn’t particularly interested. I’d given it a try the first week after they moved north from their old location on Mississippi, and wasn’t terribly impressed. Additionally, many of the
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Alu Wine Bar and Lounge

Note: This establishment has opened under new owners. See the website for more details. “When it Alu going to open?” my husband asked last week, of the sliver of a building on NE Martin Luther King Blvd. just south of Stanton St., which seemed months under construction. Through the grapevine, I already knew the chef was Sandro Di Giovani, formerly
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Lagniappe Closed

From a reader comes word that Lagniappe on Alberta closed last week. According to the reader, “the new owners — one very familiar-looking and another older guy are opening “an American diner” by next month. They are keeping the video lottery machines, to my dismay.” Seems to me an American diner should have pinball machines, but then I’ve never quite
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Lucca – Two Views

If there is one thing I have learned since I started this site, it is that there is more than one way of looking at a restaurant experience. Different things are more important to different people. While some put the food before anything else, others may care more about the atmosphere or the prices. Last week I was at Lucca.
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