East India Company

Downtown Portland is dotted with Indian restaurants and food carts. It has gotten to the point where, when making plans with friends, you have to make sure you all are talking about the same restaurant; otherwise some of your party will invariably end up at the wrong place. That is what happened to me the first time I went to East India Company.

H5O bistro & bar - First Impression

H5O (and that’s h-five-oh, in case you were wondering) bistro & bar is a part of Portland’s newest boutique hotel compound: Hotel Fifty. The bistro is under the helm of Texas transplant, Nicholas A. Yanes, a chef with a resume of high-brow dining rooms around Dallas, along with a degree from the Western Culinary Institute.

This affects the menu in interesting ways-it’s certainly not stuck on localvore

Vote on Your Favorite Food Memory

A few weeks ago I asked everyone to write out their favorite food memory. Winner gets an autographed copy of Paul Gerald’s new book, Breakfast in Bridgetown: the Definitive Guide to Portland’s Favorite Meal.
We sent all the entries to a group of judges and though almost every piece had at least one vote, the five [...]

Morton’s “The Steakhouse” Holds Riedel Event

A beer town like Portland can make a wine aficionado like myself feel a bit out of place at times. It seems as if beer is viewed as the average guy’s drink of choice, while wine is left to the realm of fine restaurants and dinner parties. People seem to find beer familiar and comforting, [...]