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Are Food Carts Getting Out Of Control?

I’ve been waiting for push-back against food carts, and it sounds like a groundswell is building. From the EnzymePDX website, there are currently 534 licensed food carts in Multnomah County, with applications for 82 more under planned review. Even John Hamilton, vice president of communications for the restaurant lobbying group the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association, admits that Portland has
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“Hottest” Male Chef In NYC Now Cooking at Portland’s Lolo

Chef Tomas Curi, previously Chef de Cuisine at Inoteca Gramercy in NYC, is now hard at work, putting his own stamp on the menu at Lolo, Portland’s Spanish tapas restaurant and bar. Curi, who started at the restaurant in June, is focusing on finger foods designed to complement Spanish cocktails and wines. He was the runner up in “Eater’s Hottest
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Straight From Italy, “What “true” espresso is, and how Americans ruin it”

This article on Salon.com interviews an “Italian coffee master”. According to Salon, Giorgio Milos, the master barista at the high-end Trieste, Italy-based Illy coffee, American coffee is, for lack of a better word, crap. He launches into a screed about US coffee, before going on a tour of NYC’s “best” coffeehouses. Finally, they arrive at Stumptown Coffee. From Salon.com, “What
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Portland Restaurant Sinju Doesn’t Seem to Care About Sustainability

From Slashfood, an article on Sinju Restaurant in the Pearl District. A restaurant regular Guido Rahr who happens to be president of the Wild Salmon Center in Portland, noticed Sinju had recently began offering the very rare and endangered Atlantic Bluefin tuna on the menu. Rahr had been eating at Sinju for nearly a decade. The headquarters for his environmental
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Wong’s King Justifiably Willamette Week’s Rogue

An article in this weeks Willamette Week spotlights a disturbing practice by a few Portland restaurants, which I have never thought about before: the use of shark fins in cooking. If you’ve never seen sharks being harvested for their fins, it is truly horrible. The shark is brought aboard the boat, the fins sliced off, and the shark is tossed
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The Dramatic “Chairman” of Iron Chef

This is just so darn funny. Those of you who have watched Iron Chef will recognize “The Chairman”. String his dramatic reveals together, and you get quite the production: Via WineGuyWorld, via Eater

Sahagún Chocolates Closes Retail Shop

One of my favorite secret places in Portland is closing up shop. Sahagún was on my must go list for out-of-town visitors, as well as an oasis for me after a particularly lousy day. Unfortunately, after tomorrow, Sahagún Chocolate Shop will be closing permanently, as Elizabeth Montes (interview here), is going to concentrate her efforts on wholesale clients. From Elizabeth,
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