Until recently, wood-fired pizza was a rare commodity in Portland. With the openings of Ken’s Artisan Pizza, Nostrana and Apizza Scholls, Portlanders now have some choices regarding authentic pizza. These are restaurants that let their dough rise for over 24 hours and make sure every ingredient placed on the pizza is fine-tuned to perfection.
Everyone loves a good breakfast, most everyone loves a good lunch and at the miraculous center of this culinary Venn diagram, one feisty little meal known as “brunch” has in its charge a rightful army of devotees. There is something very trendy, and almost classic, about having a good weekend brunch, which puts a restaurant disposed to serving such a meal under a certain amount of pressure.
After a stressful week full of errands and unforgiving schedules, it’s appropriate to indulge in something that we may not eat a daily basis. For me, this includes anything I “crave.” When encountering a food craving, in my experience, it’s usually something rich and classically delicious. Recently, I found the perfect dish to satisfy my palate at Le Happy, a quaint creperie located between the Pearl District and Northwest.
The Clearing Café is named after “the calm, lucid center we find within ourselves when we are at peace.” So it’s no wonder that this café is not only relaxing, but entirely focused on bringing people to a healthy place. To do this, owners Briana and Peter Borton, both healthcare practitioners, serve only fresh food that is made with local, organic ingredients.
There are plenty of ways to get fast food without getting “fast food,” and in Portland, fortunately, there seem to be hundreds of small restaurants with just such offerings. When you are in a hurry (or just very hungry), spending your time trying to decide which dish to pick can be an irritating task. In an effort to circumvent such frustration the Vanguard has compiled a small list of some tasty and affordable places to try near the Portland State campus.