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3 weeks ago | 
pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane
Oregon Chefs, bartenders, and bakers are headed to Chicago once again this year. TheJames Beard Foundationreleased the list of finalists for its annual restaurant and chef awards on Wednesday, and a handful of Portland spots have advanced in national categories: Coquine for the Outstanding Restaurant category, JinJu Patisserie for Outstanding Bakery, and Scotch Lodge for Outstanding Bar.
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1 month ago | 
pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane
Portland is obsessed with its airport. We take shoe selfies, carry bags emblazoned with its carpet pattern, and pop over for drinks even when we don’t have a flight. It’s long been considered one of the country’s most attractive airports, but the Port of Portland has leveled up.
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1 month ago | 
pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane
In 2020, chef Kari Shaughnessy left behind the celebrated Bay Area restaurants of her early career and moved to McMinnville. At the time, the Willamette Valley town wasn’t heralded as a premier culinary destination—it was better known as a common home base for those exploring wine country, offering a few reliable dining spots to refuel between pinot noir flights.
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1 month ago | 
pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane
For many food service workers—chefs, in particular—dining out can be a challenge, by the nature of their schedules: They work when most restaurants are open, and are free when most restaurants are closed. Time (and often money) is scarce. Still, a remarkable number of Portland-based baristas, restaurant owners, line cooks, and chefs spend their days off in the suburbs, in search of goat biryani, kimchi jjigae, and cabeza tacos.
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1 month ago | 
wetheitalians.com | Alex Frane
BY: Alex FraneAs a young culinary student, Adam Berger traveled to Montelupo Albese, within the Piedmont region of Italy, to learn pasta-making from the experts. He brought that education back to Portland, rolling dough at the legendary Italian tasting menu spot, Genoa, and at his own restaurants: the beloved (and now closed) Tabla Pasta E Vino in Kerns, and Montelupo, a traditional-leaning Italian restaurant named for the city where he learned his craft.
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2 months ago | 
pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane
Jane Kim is her own kind of social media star. Better known as the Korean Mama, Kim has earned over a million followers between TikTok and Instagram with her earnest charm and cheerful refrain of “I’m so hungry!” As her adult son Ed Kim films, the Korean Mama scours the city and its suburbs, digging into bowls of noodles and platters of barbecue, sampling boba teas and leche flan, and giving her often positive reviews.
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2 months ago | 
pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane
As a young culinary student, Adam Berger traveled to Montelupo Albese, within the Piedmont region of Italy, to learn pasta-making from the experts. He brought that education back to Portland, rolling dough at the legendary Italian tasting menu spot, Genoa, and at his own restaurants: the beloved (and now closed) Tabla Pasta E Vino in Kerns, and Montelupo, a traditional-leaning Italian restaurant named for the city where he learned his craft.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane
Portland’s culinary world may reach lofty highs with its tasting menus and lavish bistros, but its foundations lie firmly in the low-brow: the cheesy stretch of a pepperoni pizza, the hit of sugar and hot oil in a fresh doughnut. Maybe it’s the inescapable rain or the blasé attitudes of the longtime locals, but Portland loves its comfort food, its culinary Klonopin.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane
On a cold, gray December day, the conservatory at Cascada is a balmy 85 degrees. The winter sun is dappled by solar panel cells, arranged so light can stream through the glass ceiling and feed the room’s hundreds of plants—tropical magnolias, verdant air plants, monsteras. The new boutique hotel and spa opened its doors to the public only days earlier, and I have the pool to myself. Kicking off the provided flip-flops, I descend the steps into the warm water and quickly cross to the deep end.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
pdxmonthly.com | Alex Frane
The winter holiday season can be an especially booze-soaked time of the year, with party punches and champagne-filled New Year’s Eve dinners. While it’s celebratory for some, it can be challenging to those abstaining or limiting their alcohol intake. Ariel Dunitz-Johnson, founder of the alcohol-free bar and bottle shop Ever AFter, created this recipe, Shorter Days, to celebrate the cooler, darker seasons in the Pacific Northwest.
