By Cat Wurdack 5051 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 971.279.5530 www.taborbread.com Wed-Fri 7 am – 6 pm Sat-Sun 8 am – 6 pm Closed Mon, Tues   Bread is the passion that drives the rhythms of the day at Tabor Bread, a bright and welcoming retail bakery/cafe at SE 51st and Hawthorne [...]

By Cat Wurdack 400 SE 12th Ave. 503.231.3899 www.redandblackcafe.com 7 days 11 am – 9 pm         Where can you enjoy 100-percent vegan food and drink, support the worker’s labor movement, and learn more about becoming an activist for social justice? The Red and Black! The all-vegan [...]

By Cat Wurdack   3962 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Ste A www.bardobre.com   503.477.5266 Mon – Sat / Dinner & Drinks Closed Sunday   The culture that gave us the mazurka, the pierogi, and some of the finest potato vodka in the world helped influence the culinary stylings of Stan Pratnicki, [...]

By Cat Wurdack   3616 SE Hawthorne Blvd. www.samuipdx.com 503.231.9898   7 days / Lunch/Dinner   To eat a whole Tilapia like a Samui islander, you must cut off the fish head and suck out the eyeball, fork the flesh from the bone, lift the skeleton to your mouth and [...]

3402 SE Division Open 7 am weekdays, 8 am on weekends; Closes around 11 pm. laurettajean.com 503.235.3119   If the apple pie at Lauretta Jeans were a film it would receive the Palme d’Or and honorable mention for best application of  heirloom fruit. At such an award ceremony, Lauretta Jean’s [...]

3377 SE Division St. Open daily for dinner avagenes.com 971.229.0571   3377 SE Division St. Open daily for dinner avagenes.com 971.229.0571 Just when it seems Stumptown founder and serial restaurateur Duane Sorenson couldn’t possibly have time to birth another foodie- inspired enterprise, he pops out Ava Gene’s, a 75-seat Italian [...]