Archive for the Category ‘Food & Wine’

Restaurant Rally to Support The American Center for Sustainability

Restaurant Rally to Support The American Center for Sustainability

The American Center for Sustainability (ACS) will be hosting and benefiting from the Spring for Support Restaurant Rally on Saturday March 20, 2010. This event will raise funds for expanding the Annual Plant Project and further development of community programs led by ACS. Patrons and restaurant goers will be able to participate in ACS’s Spring for [...]

Is Stumptown the New Starbucks?

Is Stumptown the New Starbucks?

From Time Magazine:
Coffee aficionados have been asking the question over and over again: Is Stumptown Coffee Roasters of Portland, Ore. — the most conspicuous exponent of coffee’s “third wave” — the new Starbucks?
Wait, you haven’t heard of the third wave? Get with the program! In cities across America, a fervid generation of caffeine evangelists are [...]

Portland Pizza Joint Named to Nations Top 10….by Playboy

Portland Pizza Joint Named to Nations Top 10….by Playboy

On the heals of Voodoo Doughnut being named to the top 10 list from a major magazine, a Portland pizza joint has made an exclusive list. A sexy and exclusive list, that is. Playboy Magazine has named Ken’s Artisan Pizza top their list of Top 10 pizza joints in America.
Playboy had this to say about [...]

Voodoo Doughnut Makes Bon Appétit Magazine

Voodoo Doughnut Makes Bon Appétit Magazine

Doughnuts have finally hit the mainstream. Sure, Dunkin Doughnuts is hugely popular on the east coast but I think we can all agree that the doughnut’s hay day is long past…..well, until recently that is.
Bon Appétit Magazine has just released their list of the top 10 doughnut shops in America and our beloved Voodoo Doughnut [...]

Portland Said to Have Better Coffee Than Seattle

Portland Said to Have Better Coffee Than Seattle

From kuow.org:
Ask a crowd full of Seattleites at a Starbucks what city in the United States has the best coffee, and the answer is unanimous: Seattle, of course. But that’s not the view of coffee industry insiders. They say it’s been years since Seattle led the way in coffee culture. The consensus among connoisseurs is [...]

2010 James Beard Award Nominations Announced

2010 James Beard Award Nominations Announced

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 [...]

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