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Neighborly eats

Applebee’s — a taste of chain dining
The city council recently voted to allow chain restaurants in downtown Portland.

By BRIAN DUFF | March 21, 2007

What’s in a name?

Figuring out Portland's Restaurant and Bar
I felt a little pessimistic about Portland’s Restaurant and Bar.

By BRIAN DUFF | March 14, 2007

Whole Foods on the cheap?

Twenty spot gives it a shot
I recently had nightmares of losing my twenty spot the moment I enter the store.

By TODD RICHARD | March 07, 2007

Healthy competition

On Whole Foods' conglomeration
When I first got into health food, I shopped for food at a small, groovy store in the East Village of Manhattan.

By JESSICA PORTER | February 28, 2007

Fancy that

West End lunch places crosse traditional lines
While Munjoy Hill is all of a kind, the west side of Portland has a split personality.

By BRIAN DUFF | February 21, 2007

Soup for you

Liquid lunches are perfect for midwinter
When it’s cold it is hard to do things. In recent weather every requirement of life feels like an affront to sweet inertia.

By BRIAN DUFF | February 14, 2007

A Peruvian dish in midwinter
Recently, I heard a quote from uber-foodie, author, and TV personality Nigella Lawson in which she insisted that entertaining shouldn’t be about your aspirations, but about your personality.

By TODD RICHARD | February 07, 2007

Eat + run

Hitting Portland with a national food writer
I am an inveterate name-dropper.

By JESSICA PORTER | January 31, 2007

Like a ‘new city’

Thai flavors in the heart of the Old Port
Just as America, in all of its wonderful and problematic complexity, will ultimately be remembered for having invented freedom and bestowed it upon the world, so Thai culture will be best remembered for having thought to put curry paste together with coconut milk.

By BRIAN DUFF | January 17, 2007