This is gloomy, but not unexpected, news. The Oregonian reports on the sad state of the local restaurant business. We’ve had to pinch our own dining-out dollars recently and this awful, crappy weather doesn’t help! If you have the means, visit your favorite local eateries. We don’t want Portland to become a bastion of just [...]

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We have been waiting months and months for Davis Street Tavern to open, and according to their Web site the new Old Town eatery is now open daily from 4 p.m. until “late.” They plan to start serving during lunch in January! We can’t wait to try the cozy-looking place out (ah, sometime after all [...]

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Skyline Restaurant 1313 NW Skyline Boulevard Portland, OR 97229 503-292-6727 Map It! Rating: Foodies around the world know the name James Beard, one of the most acclaimed American chefs of all time, so it’s a little odd to see a browned-with-age newspaper clipping framed on the wall at Skyline touting Beard’s professed devotion for this [...]

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Thai Food Café 833 N. Killingsworth Street Portland, OR 97217 503-285-8745 Map It! Rating: Oh how I miss living in my old neighborhood. Not only did I live in the cutest of cute lil’ bungalow, but I was just a short walk or even shorter drive from all the hotspots of North and inner Northeast [...]

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