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Nel Centro

On a cool evening a few months ago, I sat with friends on the patio at Nel Centro. Three fire pits allowed heat to drift across our table. The flames, reflected in window after window of the hotel, were sometimes three layers deep. Sheltered from the transit mall, it was a little oasis. Vines climbed nearby walls, the background music
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Review: Tabla Mediterranean Bistro

Since I first reviewed Tabla in 2006, it has been through quite a few transitions. There have been several chef changes, and for a while, I thought the food was average, at best. Recently, under the watchful eye of executive chef Anthony Cafiero, the food has changed.

Cafiero isn’t exactly a newcomer to the Portland restaurant scene. He spent two years with Cathy Whims at Nostrana, and then another year under

First Impressions: Full Plate

Temporarily closed – 6/15 I’ve been watching Marco Shaw’s new takeout place on NE Fremont and 42nd moving ever so slowly towards completion. It finally opened on the 9th, and since I was in the area, I dropped by to take a look. If you can’t picture the location, it is right next to Tuk Tuk Thai, just passed 42nd,
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Alba Osteria – a New Look

By Bruce Bauer Here’s a stellar offer for all of you living in Portland. For the rest of you, should you find yourselves with plans to visit our fair city, pay attention. Here’s the deal: In the next five minutes or so you spend reading this, you can have an extra $3,000 in your pocket! I know, pretty freaking crazy,
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Vindalho

Vindalho- vin-dah-loo’ – Indian (from Portuguese vinha d’alhos: vin(wine) alho (garlic): fish, vegetables, or meat (most commonly chicken or lamb) prepared in the Goan style, with vinegar, garlic, sometimes potatoes, and tomatoes in a spicy curry. Vindalho was opened in 2005 by David Machado, owner of Café Lauro a few miles east on Division. David Anderson, formerly from Lauro, moved
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Pasha

I love Pasha. Specifically, I love Pasha’s lunch buffet. This is why… It’s the middle of a hurried weekday. Usually, I graze intermittently to sustain my strength, but today I’ve been working and running around all morning and into the afternoon, and breakfast seems days ago. The noon hour has long passed, and I really need to sit down and
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Review: Clyde Common

Many restaurants are emblematic of certain eras in the cities they inhabit. Think of the well known Brasserie Lipp in Paris in the 1920′s, when artists and writers milled about, drinking cheap red wine and eating hearty sausages and stews, while Ernest Hemingway jotted it all down on paper for posterity. Or the eponymous Brown Derby in LA during the
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