The James Beard Awards are to chefs and restaurants as the Oscars are to actors and actresses. James Beard of course a food legend, on TV before Julia Child and rooted in the Pacific Northwest – though he would end up making his home in New York.
If you haven’t figured out, James Beard is a [...]
According to the Portland Business Journal, Salem based McGrath’s Publick Fish House has filed for Chapter 11. The chain of 20 restaurants filed for protection on Wednesday. In the petition, they list between 1,000 and 5,000 creditors. The chain has 7 restaurants in Oregon, 1 in Idaho and 5 in both Washington and Arizona.
Its top [...]
This comes from PDX Food Dude. Carlyle is closing it’s doors as of February 14th, this according to a press release from Bruce Goldberg the owner. Carlyle is where I served my externship this summer as part of my culinary schooling. I had the chance to work with Chef Jake Martin and Sous Chef Bryan [...]
This according to EaterPDX.
It’s not like Chef Naomi Pomeroy needs the press for herself or Beast, but yet again she’ll be appearing in Oprah’s magazine. According to Eater she is getting ready to do the photo shoot today.
Word is that Pomeroy is scheduled to be shot today for a spread in the May edition of [...]
Lots of moving and shaking going on in the Pearl District.
According to the Oregonian the Dussin Group have tapped Carlyle Executive Chef Jake Martin to take over the kitchen at their high end French Bistro Fenouil. The position was previously held by Pascal Chureau who just recently left his post, as he’s striking it out [...]
This weekend (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) Wildwood Restaurant & Bar will be donating 5% of it’s dinner proceeds to Medical Teams International to help bring medical relief to those that have been affected by this natural disaster in Haiti.
The team at Wildwood had planned to do this to begin with, but after the 6.1 aftershock [...]
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