With the lineup for MFNW just out, concerts are a hot topic around town, but who knew it would be so easy to pass our love of live shows down to our children? Gone are the days when the little ones only listened to classical music or sang along to standards like “Baa Baa Black Sheep” [...]
Not only does Portland’s favorite chain, Burgerville, put a healthy spin on fast food, they are now helping to create little farm-to-table chefs with a kids’ meal complete with seeds, growing instructions and recipes for using their cucumbers, snap peas, carrots and more post-harvest. The package was created in conjunction with Southeast Portland’s Zenger Farm, [...]
There is a fine line between when our kids are cautiously skeptical of people in costume and when they are able to enjoy a performance for what it is: a show! Knowing it could still go either way with our three- and two-year-olds, we recently ventured to the Northwest Children’s Theater production of “Busy Town,” [...]
It’s officially spring. Asparagus and other seasonal goodies are popping up on menus throughout town. Best of all, the mother of all Portland markets has returned. As of Saturday, March 17, the Portland Farmers Market is back for its 21st season. Visitors shouldn’t shy away thinking this is just a market meant for stocking your [...]
As if a James Beard Award-winning cookbook (Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flour) wasn’t enough to get some well-deserved national attention, the recent opening of Kim Boyce’s bakery, Bakeshop, has food bloggers and locals alike truly buzzing: Behind the Scenes at Kim Boyce’s Bakeshop – Serious Eats Look Inside Kim Boyce’s Bakeshop, Now [...]
For 40 years The Benson Hotel has displayed a “Gingerbread Masterpiece” in the lobby for guests and passersby to admire. Chef Dave Diffendorfer has created the display for the last 17 consecutive years, with fantasy worlds ranging in theme from Santa’s North Pole to an Austrian hillside town to The Benson Hotel itself. Each year [...]
As the holidays approach, the grocery store aisles and bar taps around Portland welcome full-bodied seasonal ales to help weather the cold winter months. This year, Widmer Brothers Brewing is back with its BRRR Seasonal Ale and BridgePort Brewing Company will help cure any bah-humbug tendencies with their Ebenezer Ale. For those looking to sample [...]
In a town where new restaurant openings inspire social media chatter for months before the first meal is even served, Portland Monthly’s annual restaurant issue is a hotly anticipated cheat-sheet to the best newcomers and mainstays. Well, the wait is over, and there’s a twist: you can now add to your up-to-the-minute knowledge of the [...]
The last full weekend in July marks a rite of passage for beer lovers in the Pacific Northwest as Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park welcomes the annual Oregon Brewers Festival. Known as BrewFest to locals and beer lovers from afar, this festive celebration in the heart of Beervana will have people clinking glasses with friends [...]
Back in the early years of the cupcake trend, Saint Cupcake came on to the Portland scene and soon thereafter, their mini- and full-sized cupcakes started making appearances at nearly every work event, baby shower and birthday party in town. The adorable Northwest Portland location was busy any time of day and those waiting in line [...]
