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Caravan Coffee

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From Caravan Coffee – The Willamette Valley is dotted with wonderful wineries and the town of Newberg is home to many of them.  Newberg is also the home of artisan coffee roaster Caravan Coffee.  Our Roastmaster uses two San Franciscan to roast small batches of coffee in a 20 pound traditional drum.  We ship our … Read more

Osteria Sfizio

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From The Register-Guard: Sfizio — Italian for a “hard to satisfy craving” — is the first restaurant headed up by Rocky Maselli, though the executive chef co-owns Marché in Eugene with his wife, Leah, and her mother, Stephanie Pearl Kimmel. Maselli says his menu at Sfizio will feature pastas, in-house and imported hand-cured meats, fresh … Read more

Dining Month Portland

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Dining Month Portland is a month-long promotion featuring three-course dinners for $25, for the entire month of June 2010. Approximately 50 restaurants in the city are participating. The locations of the restaurants and their menus are listed on www.diningmonthportland.com. Dining Month Portland runs the entire month of June 2010 and the three-course menus are valid … Read more

Ground Kontrol

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Pac-Man Ghosts and Galaga Aliens, ahhhhh. Ground Kontrol, depending on your age, is either the coolest place you know about or the place you can’t believe you didn’t learn about until now. Over 90 video games from the ’70’s, ’80’s, and 90’s? 26 Pinball machines?  Beer?  Yep. Ground Kontrol just recently started offering beer on … Read more

Ninkasi – Radiant Summer Ale

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Ninkasi Brewing Company just launched their crisp and flavorful, Radiant Summer Ale for 2010.  A clean finishing summer offering in the Ninkasi tradition. The smooth malt character is balanced by a elegant hop bitterness, the perfect compliment to a glorious summer day.    6% alc./vol. 40 ibus. Ninkasi Brewing has quickly grown to be a … Read more

Sol Pops

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Remember, anything is a popsicle.

Sol Pops are gourmet and wellness popsicles handmade in small batches in Portland, Oregon.  Our pops are sweetened with organic evaporated cane juice, agave, or fruit cider, and we intentionally under-sweeten, using just enough to brighten the flavor of the fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

Just some of the 40 flavors;

  • Strawberry Grapefruit
  • Raspberry Nectarine
  • Mango Orange Pineapple
  • Cherry Lime
  • Pear Ginger
  • Blueberry Lemonade
  • Raspberry Lemonade
  • Marionberry Lime
  • Sour Orange
  • Lemon!
  • Watermelon
  • Cantaloupe

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Whiffies, Mmmm, Pie

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If you are on Twitter in the Portland area there is a very good chance you have heard of Whiffies. And if you follow someone from the Portland area you have likely heard of Whiffies.  Whiffies credits social media with a lot of their success. I consider Dale Chumbley to be an ambassador for Whiffies. … Read more

Pour Wine Bar & Bistro

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Pour Wine Bar & Bistro is featured on Groupon today where you can buy a $30 gift card for $15. I have wanted to do a post on Pour for a while.  I mean really, Pour and Pouregon, it just makes sense I should spotlight them. The perfect food and wine pairing is like the fateful … Read more

Apex Bar

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So I was out looking for places to highlight for the beer post and a server at another bar said to check out Apex Bar.  What could be a better testimonial than a server at another bar telling me to check out this one.  I went straight over on a sunny Thursday, well, sunny between … Read more