What is the best Coffeehouse in Portland? The number of coffeehouses that have opened over the past few years made untangling the votes for Best Portland Coffeehouse a challenge – 85 different coffeehouses received votes, which makes the spread between them much smaller, but 561 of you had an opinion. For this survey I asked Best – Read more…
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Reader Survey 2017: Best Coffee Roaster in Portland
What is the best coffee roaster in Portland? This is all about the beans. I asked for Best Coffee Roaster in Portland in a separate question from best coffeehouse, because I wanted to concentrate strictly on the coffee, so this is a new question this year. It seems like everyone has decided that roasting coffee – Read more…
Reader Survey 2015: Best Coffeehouse in Portland
The number of coffeehouses that have opened over the past few years made untangling the votes for Best Coffeehouse in Portland a challenge. We love our coffee, and judging by the comments, many of us have strong preferences about coffeehouses. For this survey I left out “Best Roaster” for another survey, because I wanted to – Read more…
Bits of Portland Food News – May 14th
There is a dearth of particularly interesting Portland restaurant news lately, but here are a few items that have caught my eye. Blue Star Donuts has opened a branch at 3549 SE Hawthorne. You may remember them from such delicacies as the Fried Chicken Donut or the *Valhorona Chocolate Donut. You can read my review – Read more…
Trigger, Pasta Allegro Close; Little T Bakery Opening New Store
Portland Monthly Magazine reports that Trigger, the Tex-Mex restaurant from Tommy Habetz and company will close, to reopen as another Bunk. This isn’t exactly a surprise: the location under the Wonder Ballroom was a bit strange and frequently competed with the ballroom and Toro Bravo for neighborhood parking spaces. That, coupled with a kitchen that – Read more…
Reader Survey 2013: Best Coffee Roaster in Portland
When readers voted a year ago for the Best Coffee Roaster in Portland, there was a bit of an upset, with Ristretto Roasters barely edging out Stumptown coffee. This year things have flipped a bit. Let’s review the top three 2012 results first: Ristretto Coffee Roasters – 27.9% Stumptown Coffee Roasters – 27.2% Coava Coffee – Read more…
Your Amuse Bouche – News Roundup for 2.4.2013
A reader sends this note: When I went to grad school at the CIA I had to purchase all new chef’s pants and uniforms. By then, I’d collected dozens of pairs of them, and had lots of jackets (because I’d been working as a sous chef for years- having started from the bottom up when I – Read more…
Reader Survey 2012: Best Coffeehouse in Portland
I thought it would be interesting this year to break coffee into two categories – Best Coffeehouse and Best Roaster. Stumptown is known for roasting and I thought they would do pretty well in both categories, especially with 5 stores, but that isn’t the case. Let’s look at the results: 752 votes cast: 1. Ristretto – Read more…