Not a lot of news this late in the week, at least nothing much that hasn’t been reported on this site before. Here are the few items of interest that I found.
Recently, The Hungry Tiger on NE 28th and Burnside was mentioned in the comments. The entire block is being torn down to make way for condos. I guess I’ll scratch that one off of my list.
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Apollo, you are famous. In case you didn’t see it, Willamette Week quoted you in an article this week.
Local culinary websites were abuzz after the announcement of the New York plan last month. On ‘An Exploration of Portland Food and Drink’, remarks about the potential ban were reminiscent of the foie gras debate, with one person calling the proposal a ‘food police state scenario.’
‘Where is my freedom of choice going? If I want some greasy-ass food, I should be able to get some,’ wrote ‘Apollo.’ ‘If any foods ever become illegal around here, I [sic] opening up a black market supper club. You are all invited. Foie gras and truffled French fries for everybody.’
Willamette Week is so nice. They always link. Mental note to send chocolate to Kelly.
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Speaking of wine, I wandered by Square Deal Wine Company over at 2321 NW Thurman St today, just a door or two down from St. Honore Bakery. I’ve been to a lot of wine stores in my life, but really like Square Deal. They keep the store temperature at the ideal level for storing wines. The staff is incredibly helpful and takes the time to find out what characteristics you are looking for, they don’t push expensive bottles – heck, I don’t even think they had any pricey bottles, but they’ve got a lot of good ones. Finally, they are also home to Steve’s Cheese, a few large class cases that have an amazing variety. An added bonus, you buy a cheese, they’ll help you pick the right wine for it. Nice people.
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Not so fast with the whole scratching off of the list there, sir!
You see, there is a Hungry Tiger II in the old Willam’s on 12th/Buckman Grill space on SE 12th in the Buckman neighborhood. The external decor alone is screaming to you in agony, begging humbly for your consideration.
Well, it’s screaming something, anyway…and there’s nothing humble about it.
Hmm, I should watch what I say on here. You never know what early morning/late night/drunk/hungover comment will get press. It reminds me of the time I ran into a drunk reporter from the Tribune who ended up doing an article on my father. I think he is still angry at me… ;) I hosted a dinner party last night and I got crap from just about everyone there about my little grammatical error in that little quote. Oops.
Also, congrats on the increased traffic and your rising, albeit anonymous, celebrity.
Food Dude, I think you’re adding your stats wrong — or you’re a WAAAAAY more popular site than probably anything else in town. I’m guessing by 380,000 unique visitors you are accumulating each month’s stats. But since those stats start anew each month, you can really only give an average of the month, eg, 30,000 unique visitors a month. If you had 380,000 unique visitors you could be very wealthy from your site; you’d have a better readership than most of the newspapers around town. (Also, I have to wonder if you’re counting unique visitors or visits, because with commenting, you should have more page loads for that many visitors.)
I imagine, like me, 80% or so of your traffic is actually from people who’ve bookmarked the site or gone directly to it by entering the domain in the URL. The second highest number of hits for me besides direct hits are from Google. Then Yahoo. Then the above sites.
My favorite stat, though, is that something like 95% of my hits come from within Portland metro.
Ok you two, enough of look how cool and popular we are. Back to food and unsubstantiated rumors.
Awww, t’weren’t nothin’! Fellow PV refugees have to look out for one another for one; for another, you’re one of the best reads in town.
As for your stats: Food Dude, you need to capitalize on that a little. Let me hook you up with BlogAds. You need an invite to get in and I’m happy to invite you. Seriously, you could do well.
I keep loading ExtraMSG’s site hoping to see some more great food photos…only to see that damn (good looking) gelato!
What gives man?
*Cracking the licorice
cookforhire:
I second you! Actually, it’s funny how MSG makes an ass of himself everywhere he goes by taking pics… however, we never see them!
Go figure, maybe there’s no film in his camera…
Hey mensas, the 5th link in the left column is titled “Food Photos”. I’m not a learned scholar myself, and I bombed my SATs and attended a state college, but my limited powers of deductive reasoning led me to believe that’s where one would find food photos. And I was justly rewarded by taking this leap of faith.
Apollo: Congratulations on your 15 minutes of fame. BTW, they could have covered for your boo boo, but no, they had to do that [sic] shit to make you look bad. The evil bastards.
FD: They quoted me too, without attribution–well, I guess not if I changed my name to “one person.” “Food police state scenario.” I thought I recognized that phrase. Needless to say the emotional distress has me completely overwrought. Kelly, I know you read this e-rag. No bagels for you. And tell my namesake over there he’ll be hearing from my perpetually peevish $500/hour counsel who eats nothing but raw meat mixed with big gobs of transfat. This has major lawsuit written all over it. Maybe a class action. He and Meeker might as well just hand me their bulging wallets right now.
Seriously, I’m glad WW took a look at this issue. I have difficulty understanding why so many gov’t and private interest types seem increasingly intent on dictating others’ conduct. That they are enjoying a degree of success is really frightening.
–mcz
In that WW article, they quote Dan Saltzman saying to the effect that he supports th idea of a ban…
He was not high on my my list of favorable council members nor was he at the bottom I thought he was so-so (In particular, I wish he was more innovative with Portland Parks and Rec which is his as a council member)
However, after reading that bit in WW I lost all respect and I look forward to not voting for him come next election.
let freedom ring
You ever seen Dan Saltzman? You can pretty much guess the type:
Mixed greens salad, no dressing.
Halibut (grilled or poached only), sauce on the side (untouched).
No dessert.
Anyone know? Dan, care to share? Brittany @ WW, how about some follow up?
–mcz