Martin Cizmar
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Willamette Week — Portland News, Movies, Music, Restaurants, Arts
This is the Year Portland Finally Got Exciting Handmade Asian Dumplings and Pepper-Bath Chicken Smack Dab in the Middle of the City. → Read More
Ordnance Brewing's New Beer Proves Berries Have Actually Done a Lot for Oregon Beer
If it weren’t for berry beer, I’m not sure we’d have such a vital craft-beer culture. It seems silly to geeks today, but back when the idea of a brewpub was new, pints of McMenamins Ruby and Pyramid Apricot Ale dramatically expanded their appeal. → Read More
Pop Into Pine Street Market for No-Hassle Brunch
The upscale food hall, which opened in April with much fanfare, added breakfast in late October. → Read More
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The first time I saw a vape with an app, I was very excited. The original make of the first brand I encountered with an app, the Firefly, underwhelmed me. But with iPhone-based controls and some other new features, it seemed like the second edition would be a game-changer. Well, I didn't really like the Firefly 2, which I found buggy. That feeling is not universal—the Portland Mercury's cannabis… → Read More
A Portland Company Has Made What Appears To Be The World’s First Cannabis-Leaf Juice
“We’ve been cold-pressing juice for four years, and we’ve juiced just about every fruit and veggie you can imagine,” she says. “Everything you can get at the grocery store and many you can’t get at the grocery store.” → Read More
How Should You Be Storing Your Weed?
Ever crack a 5-year-old BridgePort barleywine that tastes like soy sauce? That’s what happens with old weed—except, in addition to the harsh flavor, it’ll be muted in effect. But that’s not necessarily how it needs to be. → Read More
Vancouver Is the New Frontier for Two Ambitious Portland Restaurateurs
Rally Pizza is a cavernous, Nostrana-scale dining room and Vancouver’s finest restaurant. The pies are good—top 10 in the region—and the cocktails, protein dishes and desserts are top-notch. → Read More
Our Food Critic Subsisted Mainly on Soylent for a Month, and He’d Probably Do It Again
For a month, I mostly subsisted on it. For 30 days in September and early October, the period where we do the bulk of our Restaurant Guide magazine, I consumed Soylent for my meal unless I was reviewing a restaurant. Because I do not fully trust Soylent (more on that in a second), I supplemented it with fish oil and one pint of phytochemical-rich blueberries. → Read More
Sure, Pok Pok Used To Be Better—But It's Still Really Good
For more than a decade, Pok Pok wasn’t just the best Thai restaurant in Portland, but an unquestioned top-five spot in the city. → Read More
Mae is the 2016 Pop-Up of The Year
At BYOB supper club Mae, Maya Lovelace serves up Southern-fried stories with a side of buttery cornbread and juicy chicken. Before she had a menu, Maya Lovelace had hype. → Read More
Pfriem’s Pumpkin Beer Is One of the Best of the Year
The Hood River brewery didn’t take any short cuts, putting roasted pumpkin in the mash and organic pumpkin puree in the kettle → Read More
Dean Pottle, Founder of Portland’s Legendary Homebrew Speakeasy, Has Died
Dean Pottle passed away Thursday morning at age 65 from heart failure. Pottle operated Dean’s Scene, a speakeasy in the basement of Pottle’s plumbing shop where drinkers served themselves homebrewed beer made on a system in the corner of the basement. → Read More
At the Schnitz, Brian Wilson Shows He Wasn’t Quite Made for These Times, Either
Did anyone else at the Schnitz on Oct. 7 notice he was miserable, scowling, so happy to get off the stage that he walked gingerly from behind his prop piano as soon as he’d finished his part of the set’s final song? → Read More
We Made a CBD Beer—You Can Try It This Weekend
Cannabidiol (can-na-buh-DYE-all) is the unscheduled cousin compound to THC that doesn’t provide the cocktail of psychoactive effects generally referred to as “getting baked,” but that does lessen anxiety and reduce tissue inflammation. → Read More
Portland’s Five Freshest Pop-Ups
Is the traditional restaurant dying in Portland? That sounds hyperbolic, but it’s remarkable this year how much of the energy in Portland’s food scene has flowed away from traditional, sit-down spots. → Read More
Here’s a Mad Lib About Every “Old Portland” Story You’ve Ever Heard on a Barstool
The year was [last year you could be considered young.] → Read More
Seattle Spin-Off Revelry Shows Lots of Promise, But Some Challenges
Are things headed downhill as the Seattle-based chefs return to hometown projects? Or is the Portland crew going to iron things out? → Read More
Both of Cannon Beach’s New Breweries Are Good—But One Is Better
Even as most of Oregon’s coastal towns grew increasingly beery, the scenic enclave was home to only Bill’s Tavern and Brewhouse. Then, this summer, two new breweries posted tasteful wooden signs along Hemlock Street. → Read More
2016 Is the Spiritual Sequel to 1999
But as in any reboot, some details have changed from the original 1999. → Read More
This Summer Is the Start of Open and Unapologetic Cannabis Use in Athletics
It’s been great to see a few sports figures giving cannabis the crossover moments it needs. → Read More