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Tuesday marked a year since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, sparking an unprecedented push to address anti-Black racism across the country. Oregonians immediately joined in, holding protests and marches in cities from Hermiston to Grants Pass. In Portland, they took to the streets on May 28 and gathered across the city to rally for racial justice for more than 100 ...
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Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Drink Mobile: Deadshot’s Renegade Princess v. 3 Certainly Tastes Like It Has a Royal Pedigree Originally made with nori and jasmine and named, respectively, for Disney princesses Ariel and Jasmine, it’s now in its third iteration on the Deadshot menu. Deadshot’s Renegade Princess v. 3. Updated May 1 at 9:48 PM Adam Robinson aims to confuse. “I don’t want you to know exactly what you’re getting,” says the bart...
A post on Shibumi’s Instagram account on Thursday, April 15 sparked a wave of criticism from members of Los Angeles’s Japanese-American community. The Michelin-starred restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, best known for chef and owner David Schlosser’s adherence to traditional Japanese cookery, shared a post intended to advertise its sakura mochi dessert special but instead ignited a conversation around colonization, cuisine ownership, and authenticity. It also raised questions about the implications of a white chef who built his career on Japanese food — and was recently named a Japan...
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas [Official Site] The spit-roasted meats of chef David Chang arrive at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on April 1 when Bāng Bar opens. His latest restaurant goes into Block 16 Urban Food Hall, taking over the former Pok Pok Wing space. Bāng Bar, which takes its name inspiration from the Korean word for bread, allocated an estimated $335,220 in construction costs alone to transform chef Andy Ricker’s former Vietnamese chicken wing restaurant. Flatbreads are cooked to order on the griddle, filled with a choice of rotisserie carved chicken, spicy eggplant, or pork and t...
Park Avenue Chef Karl Holl to Launch Ambitious Food Foraging Company With the everyday kitchen grind in the rear view, Portland's premiere farmer-chef is embracing his inner woodsman with foods found in the wild. By Karen Brooks 3/5/2021 at 1:00am Karl Holl unearths a cauliflower mushroom in the Cascades On January 1, 2020 Karl Holl was ready to reap what he had sowed. All the years in the food grinder, all the down-in-the-dirt edibles yankedâall the stars lined up, cashing in at last. Never mind all his accolades, the rise from unknown California transplant to PoMo's 2018 Chef o...