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May 2008
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Recently in Dining CategoryBend beer basics bask buzzed beaverstated brewlovers ... OK I've run out of alliteration on that one, but there's big excitement in the Pearl. The first Deschutes Brewery in Portland officially opens Friday, May 2 and some of Portland's media got a sneak peek last Friday night as they busted out their signature - and some new - beers and gourmet Northwest cuisine. Built in the former Jim Stevens auto building, the outside looks... I am the first to admit to indulging in snobbery of certain subjects, music, pizza ... OK only music and pizza. And being from east of these parts it's a heckuva haul to find good pizza. West Coasters do it different. Sure we have our taste-kinda-like-NYC (ubiquitous-but-not-close) California-style BBQ-and odd vegetable combos (not pizza) our national chains (don't count) but I have yet to find anything in the town, ne, in any city on ... Gourmet Magazine is out with its latest "Restaurant Issue" featuring what it calls the 100 best farm-to-table restaurants in America. No surprise that Portland gets a healthy representation. No surprise either that Higgins Restaurant gets the largest nod, with a short write-up as a local pioneer in the "Urban" category. Gourmet acknowledges ... The New York Times' love affair with the Rose City continues with a new glowing piece on Portland's "golden age" of food and drink. At first it was a sort of underground stop for food and wine lovers who had heard word of small, fascinating restaurants run by young, talented chefs serving a bounty of local produce. It's underground no more. Portland has emerged f... |
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