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Top 40 Restaurants in Portland

Restaurant Clicks

Whether you’re looking for American, Mexican, Chinese, or anything in between, restaurants in Portland deliver authentic and innovative dining experiences and, of course, delicious food. Le Pigeon is a fine-dining French Restaurant in East Portland between the Kerns and Buckman neighborhoods. Q Restaurant & Bar.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. In November 2013, a 22-year-old cook named John Schaible arrived in Pocantico Hills, New York, to work at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

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Today, Pilsen is one of the hippest areas in Chicago, with a thriving arts scene, fine dining options, and quaint cafes that continue to entice wealthier transplants to the area as working-class Mexicans who have lived there for years are displaced. By 2013, there were 13. A week later, graffiti appeared on S.K.Y.’s

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A Series of Extremely Scientific Theories on Why Fun Is Fun

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That’s when the elements that define this current moment converge: the expansion of corporate fine dining groups, and a large-enough public that’s interested in novel, but not overly cerebral, gourmet dining experiences. We got a whole bunch of these places: Beauty and Essex opened in 2010, Tao Downtown in 2013, Vandal in 2016.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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Before each of 10 courses, the staff explained the source or inspiration for everything that was served. If courses were inspired by something exact, the servers mentioned its scene of origin: After Catelyn Stark arrests Tyrion Lannister at an inn, she dines on onions dripping in juices, and we got the same. Vaneda Vireak.

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7 Women F&B Leaders That are Driving Positive Change Across The World

The Restaurant Times

Garima’s cuisine is focused on applying traditional Indian cooking techniques to locally sourced ingredients. Christine and Carine started Semson, a fine dining Lebanese restaurant, in 2008. Sana Chopra joined Carl’s Jr’s Indian franchisee, CybizCorp, in May 2013 in the Training and Development division.

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Beyond Dining in the Dark: What It’s Actually Like to Eat Out When You’re Blind

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Listen to this article In 1999, the first “dining in the dark” restaurant opened in Zurich, Switzerland. Blindekuh was founded by a blind pastor to generate empathy for blind people, and dining in the dark restaurants have provided reliable jobs for the chronically underemployed blind workforce. It was almost a liquid.”

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