Portland restaurant openings. While we had the usual array of new bistros, cafés, and bars, there was no clear, singular ...

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In 2011, this magazine asked five experts to list the city's 10 greatest houses. Consensus was so strong that apparently it didn't take long. Of course, the finished list included well-known historic ...

If you’re a Portland homeowner and have considered adding a tiny home to your property, there’s good news. Portland has an easy, straightforward path to adding housing to your existing lot. How? A ...

But before suburbia truly set in, the stretch of land was a destination for country estates for city aristocrats. Take this house built in 1895. Perched above the Willamette River, and purportedly ...

While many consider Northern Mexican –style tamales wrapped in corn husks—the most common presentation in the US—to be the Platonic ideal, there are plenty of variations that can be found in the ...

The local brewery-winery-distillery-historic-hotel-theater-concert-hall-wedding-venue-etc. empire turned 40 in 2023, and we graded every one within 20 miles. A year later, they teamed with another ...

The third time I tried to visit Project Matcha, a café that opened in May on NE Couch Street, I decided to brave the line. The dozens of folks snaking down the sidewalk had scared me off weeks earlier ...

Daylight is dwindling, Portland’s cold, gloomy days are setting in, and the desire to hunker down indoors is becoming harder to resist. But in many cases, the winter also comes with isolation and ...

at the 35th annual James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards, James Beard Foundation CEO Clare Reichenbach opened the event with a speech highlighting the crucial roles immigrants play in American dining ...

Who will define Portland in a new era? We asked around (and around some more) to discover this inspiring collection of movers, shakers, rising stars, and established figures with fresh ideas who are ...