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stumbled on best pizza in portland tonight.
Houston trip included outings to Underbelly, Brasserie 19, Mia's, Hugo's.
cooks illustrated founder profiled in nyt mag.
Memo to self: honey bakery
the woman who takes the orders (and the money) at the dumpling place has greeted me genially of late on a couple of occasions which is a far cry from how i used to be treated when the place was only half the size and they would serve every asian person before making eye contact with me.
so as they are packing up my dumplings to go she comes over and asks if i eat beef, and once i understood what she was saying i said yes. so she puts a container in my bag while telling me it was something she had made for the staff. i thanked her with whatever warmth i could muster and walked out pleased with the unexpected moment of humanity.
i have to admit i was somewhat apprehensive about the soup not knowing what spice or meat cut it might contain. but my curiosity got the best of me a few minutes ago and i puzzled over the red abisque before taking the leap , spoon first. then another, and it hit me... minestrone.
Bourdain Paris 2010 100 aniv show. link
I guess I probably shouldn't have eaten that tamale at the neighborhood church fund-raiser this afternoon.
Will you Oregonians go to check out my friend Garrett's latest project?
He is opening a restaurant tonight in your great city, it is called 'The Imperial'. He has been running restaurants for many years. This is the first one that he is doing from the ground up.
He is the person that I have been trying to introduce to Skinny for a while now. You guys may have already crossed paths.
I have only seen pictures; the place looks like they are serious about what they are doing.
((could not agree more on the Vietnamese comment)
The New York Restaurant Wish List
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Pete Wells: A really first-rate Cantonese restaurant, like what Hakkasan could have been if the quality were as high as the prices. A spectacle with better than average food, where tourists will feel like they saw New York and New Yorkers will feel like they weren’t ripped off. (In other words, the kind of place that the Rainbow Room was under Joe Baum.) A Moroccan restaurant with a chef who pays attention to ingredients. More, and better, restaurants in Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Bronx. And a place that does for Vietnamese food what Ayada, Sripraphai or, in a slightly different vein, Pok Pok Ny have done for Thai.
excited about our pop up restaurant opening tomorrow at the TBA Festival, with a different PDX chef each night, starting with one of my fave spots boke bowl. Oh, and the art should be pretty good too. ; )
"It was then that I decided to sample every cookie in the Pepperidge Farm family and figure out what was what. I would try to understand what made each cookie special and seductive—and what it might mean to be drawn to one of them more than another."