Harboring a hangover or just extra hungry for a hearty start to a weekend day? The Portland dining scene is robust enough to satisfy all—from dainty dish seeking foodies to the host of Man vs. Food. Here are some of our top recommendations.
You don’t have to spend the holidays in Germany to experience the tradition of drinking glühwein, or mulled wine.
The pilgrims come by private jet, stretch limos and even on horseback, but most arrive in the family car via Highway 99W or head off the beaten path in Southern Oregon and the Gorge. It’s Thanksgiving weekend in wine country, a tradition started in 1974 at The Eyrie Vineyards in the Willamette Valley.
Portland artist Ursula Barton has made a career built on spilled ink.
Singer Liz Vice will win you over in one of two ways.
Buffalo once wandered the wide open lands around Burns, munching grass and providing a food source for native people. Overhunting decimated the population. By the late 1800s, there were no buffalo in Oregon and fewer than 700 left in the United States.
Whether you associate the Mid-century modern aesthetic with Mad Men or your parents’ living room, its clean lines and signature look have become iconic. Here, we admire two Mid-century homes that have been restored for the next era.
Oregon’s natural beauty is hard to resist. Just ask architect Erez Russo. “I’ve been all around the world but wound up in Portland because I fell in love with how big nature is here,” Russo said.
As a kid in Indiana, Spencer Staley liked to tag along with his grandfather. “He would always take us to garage sales,” Staley recalled. “I really enjoyed it.” Staley kept up the practice when he moved to Portland in 1998, spending days off from his restaurant job cruising estate sales. On these outings, Staley was repeatedly drawn to Danish and Mid-century modern furniture. Over time, he taught himself to recognize key designers and restore damaged pieces, then selling his restored finds from his garage. By 2006, he opened his own storefront called The Good Mod. photo by Arthur Hitchcock Today, Staley’s shop has expanded to a 20,000-square-foot space downtown, complete with a showroom for his vintage furniture and a studio where he fabricates his own designs. “A lot of the things I make are not traditional,” Staley said. “I really like to experiment.” In 2013, this led to the creation of his first chair, called .001,…
