Topic: restaurant

Here is a list of karaoke bars in Portland, Oregon. These are recommendations from CIMTB Readers and Bloggers. Leave a comment and give us your favorite! Dr. Something says:Singing with Karaoke from Hell (live rock band karaoke) is great! They play at Dante's every Monday, and sometimes other places. In terms of regular old karaoke, The Galaxy, The Alibi and Chopsticks III are usually...this place, especially Wednesday and Thursday nights for Karaoke. 2) Yen Ha - Rad little Korean restaurant/bar with Karaoke some night...

It's easy to make declarative statements. "I am only going to eat small amounts of healthy, locally grown food from now on." Or, "I will get up with the sun to practice two hours of yoga each and every morning." Or, "I will never buy anything new again!" Or, "I will stop eating out." Is it realistic to think that life is can be this black and white? Of course not. And whenever I've...not too far from the pool. Did I say, "what the heck? I'm suddenly spending all this money on restaurant food, I might as well go t...

What would happen if someone created a fake restaurant website, with a fake menu, populated the wine list with less than stellar choices, and submitted everything (along with a $250 entry fee), for a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence? This is exactly what Robin Goldstein, author of The Wine Trials did. For his trouble, the fake restaurant won an Award of Excellence. Mr. Goldstein presented...

LocalCut's resident soul/fashion aficionado Sara Moskovitz gives the extensive lowdown on Monae, who plays a Friday show we missed in this week's WW. Unearthly, adorable Janelle Monae—hitting Doug Fir this Friday for a special 6 pm show—is infatuated with robots, cyborgs and outer spacey alternate realities. The effervescent singer's summer thus far has been a flurry of press...Boi in 2005 following a performance by Monae at Justin’s, Sean “Diddy” Combs' NYC restaurant. After lending her vocals&...

From Lelo, of course. Items in bold are items I have eaten 1. Venison 2. Nettle tea 3. Huevos rancheros 4. Steak tartare 5. Crocodile (well, alligator) 6. Black pudding 7. Cheese fondue 8. Carp 9. Borscht 10. Baba ghanoush 11. Calamari 12. Pho 13. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich 14. Aloo gobi 15. Hot dog from a street cart 16. Epoisses 17. Black truffle 18. Fruit wine made from... 80. Bellini 81. Tom yum 82. Eggs Benedict 83. Pocky 84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant 85. Kobe beef 86. Hare...

Very interesting and revealing article in the Bulletin today about the state of Downtown Bend's restaurant economy—including the surprising fact that Bluefish Bistro closed on Saturday(!). Bluefish is just the latest in a string of sudden closures, I guess. The new burger place mentioned in the article is slated to occupy its former space. At least four new restaurants — Subway...

Oooh, a new meme! Of the following hundred items, those in bold are the things I have eaten. What about you? 1. Venison 2. Nettle tea 3. Huevos rancheros 4. Steak tartare 5. Crocodile 6. Black pudding 7. Cheese fondue 8. Carp 9. Borscht 10. Baba ghanoush 11. Calamari 12. Pho 13. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich 14. Aloo gobi 15. Hot dog from a street cart 16. Epoisses 17. Black truffle 18....80. Bellini 81. Tom yum 82. Eggs Benedict 83. Pocky 84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant 85. Kobe beef 86. Hare 87. Gou...

Reality Bites: Housing market collapse leaves Bend's big projects in limbo Written by David Fisher The Old Mill area's Mercato is one of several mixed-use projects that has ground to a halt amid the housing and credit crises. Stephen Trono had grand plans for...as 74 feet, with brick facades and top-of-the-line interiors. A bustling ground-floor mixture of restaurants, bistros, food shops and k...

Upon taking a late lunch this afternoon, I walked over to the Fleur de Lis Bakery. They know my name at the bakery because I'm in there so often. I like to think my enthusiasm about the restaurant sent customers their way. Today, I opted for the roast turkey sandwich and a basil lemonade. From the first sip of the lemonade, I was hooked. It's good stuff and tastes like summer in a cup. (I'm...

Just when I begin to forget why I hate you so damned much, the Oregonian's food writers run a story so horrible I have only been able to glance at it in mirrors, rather like the Medusa's head. "It's crazy and it's fun," says Nicole Cordan, 41, who works full time on salmon-restoration issues in Portland and joins the group each week with her partner, Jeffrey Michael, and 3-year-old, Sophia. They...less than they would at a restaurant, Cordan says, and no one scowls at their energetic daughter. Plus, unlike a true potluck,...