A Farewell to Pok Pok [from Andy Ricker] From Facebook: It’s Loi Krathong in Thailand, a festival where one floats a small boat made of a slice of banana trunk and decorated with folded banana leaves with a candle on it and other offerings down the river, carrying away your negative thoughts and transgressions from the year before. It seems like a good time to write this … [Read more...] about The Pok Pok Empire is Finished
Portland Food and Restaurant News and Discussion
This is an archive of Portland metro area restaurant and food news, political debate, diatribes, discussion threads etc. If we aren't quite sure where a story belongs, you'll find it here.
Review of Oyatsupan Japanese Bakers, Beaverton
In 2016, our little food world was abuzz with talk about a new Japanese Bakery which had just opened in Beaverton - Oyatsupan. I made the trip out and wasn't particularly impressed. Fast forward to 2019, when I was helping a friend move a few blocks away, and I decided to give it another try. I'm glad I did; all of the issues from my first visit have been remedied.The … [Read more...] about Review of Oyatsupan Japanese Bakers, Beaverton
Burger Robots Outperform Humans
I like tech stuff, but I worry about the day when our robot overlords deny us our daily ration. Not a big deal yet, but when the coffee-making robots come, hundreds of baristas will be marching in the streets. But for now, who cares?! At this San Francisco restaurant, the food is entirely made by robots. If you like watching machines, you'll like this Rube Golberg device. Here … [Read more...] about Burger Robots Outperform Humans
Pulitzer Prize winning Restaurant Critic Jonathan Gold dies
Jonathan Gold, long-time Los Angeles food critic has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 57.In 2006, writer Nancy Rommelmann introduced me to Jonathan Gold at a Portland conference. I had no idea who he was, but was impressed by two things; that Nancy seemed happy to see him, and he was the opposite of pretentious. My conversation with him later that day reinforced … [Read more...] about Pulitzer Prize winning Restaurant Critic Jonathan Gold dies
Presenting the Tarantula Burger and More!
Pondering your lunch order? Those of you who have a queasy stomach may want to pass on this story. Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, North Carolina, features an Exotic Meat Month every April. The restaurant adds menu items like wild boar, elk burgers, turtle, alligator, python, scorpion, a camel burger, and bug ice cream. I can hear most of you saying, "What's the big … [Read more...] about Presenting the Tarantula Burger and More!