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Review: DOC
DOC – Beet Salad DOC restaurant always seems to fly under the radar, but they produce good food in a unique environment. Walk through the kitchen to enter the dining room, and once you sit down, most...
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Review: Bamboo Sushi
Bamboo Sushi Bamboo Sushi is not your ordinary sushi restaurant. Not only is the fish much better than average, but they have garnered national praise for being the first certified, sustainable sushi...
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Review: Ox Restaurant
Quiñónez and Greg Denton of OxPhoto ©Dina Avila OX restaurant is a temple to “the wood-fired grilling tradition of Argentina, and with it, the culinary heritage of Spain, France and Italy”. Opened in...
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Review: Ned Ludd
Oven-poached ling cod with leeks, chanterelles & currantsPhoto ©CJ French The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans, who violently protested against the machinery introduced during...
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Review: Biwa
Biwa Reader Survey Best Restaurants in Portland 2012 #16. New review 10/15/12 A lot has changed about Portland since my review of Biwa in 2008. Sure, Portland still isn’t much of a sushi town as...
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Review: Ringside Fish House
Ringside Fish HousePhoto ©Tim Roth – Pupil Photo In 2011, the Ringside Fish House opened downtown, on the second floor of the Fox Tower. The space had previously housed Ringside Steakhouse during their...
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Review: Little Bird Bistro
Little Bird BistroPhoto ©Tim Roth Little Bird - is the child restaurant to Le Pigeon, one of the most highly regarded restaurants in Portland. In 2011, Owner Gabriel Rucker won the “James Beard Rising...
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Review: Grüner
Note: this review was extensively updated 10/2012. Grüner isn’t a “German” restaurant, nor does it bill itself as such; rather it is Alpine. This is a vast region that includes pieces of France, Italy,...
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Review: Hot Pot City
Completely updated/rewritten 11/2012 Welcome to cold season in Portland. Hot Pot City photo courtesy of TripAdvisor Hot Pot City is a constant for many of us, especially in the chilly, gray winter...
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Review: Blue Star Donuts
When I was in college, I had a passion for bear claws. Working nights, I had an hour to kill before my next job, which happened to take me past Venice Beach and its line of donut shops. Over the course...
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