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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. Where to Get Food in Portland This Week Hot Plates, coming through! Ping (Christine Dong) 1. Ping 2131 SE 11th Ave., 503-875-0527, pingportland.com. 11:30 am-8:30 pm Thursday-Tuesday. Available for pickup by phone or ordering directly from the website. Delivery by Caviar. At Pok Pok, Andy Ricker produced a string of regional Thai food hits never before seen in American restaurants. But the breadth of his culinary mastery was...

Langbaan’s noodle soups bring comfort, warmth to winter: Takeout diaries Updated Jan 16, 2021; Posted Jan 13, 2021 Pre-pandemic, Langbaan served intricate Thai tasting menus behind a false bookshelf at the back of PaaDee, 6 S.E. 28th Ave.Michael Russell | The Oregonian Facebook Share Remember when you couldn’t get into Langbaan? Before COVID-19, the tiny, prix-fixe Thai restaurant found behind a false bookshelf at the more casual Paadee was the toughest ticket in town, with a reservations page booked out months in advance. But walk down Southeast 28th Avenue on the next sunny afternoon,...

The Departed: Sorrowful for Portland's Restaurant Scene Portland tragically lost nearly 100 food and drink spots this year. For PoMo's food critic, some felt like old friends. By Karen Brooks 12/29/2020 at 3:40pm Also coming this week from PoMo:  our favorite openings, closings and pivots of the year, our best chef interviews, and a conversation with Naomi Pomeroy on the future on independent restaurants. Typically, this is the time of year for sleuthing and predicting—the dining trends, rising stars, and food-altering kitchen gizmos on the horizon for next year. Instead, we're more ...

And I'll never forget the haunting words of In order to survive, Ghaith Sahib has opened two new DarSalam locations during the pandemic. The upshot: as of December 2020, downtown's DarSalam remains temporarily shut after three window smashings and a break-in. Take-out income from the family's original Alberta spot was not enough to support the multi-generational clan that worked at the two restaurants. So Sahib, who is 37, tapped his credit cards to launch small DarSalam satellites in the Pearl District and on SE Hawthorne. “It's very tricky, very scary,” he tells me. “All ...

The 10 Portland restaurant closures that hurt the most in 2020 By Michael Russell, oregonlive.com Share: Pok Pok shown in 2007 at 3226 S.E. Division St. Photo Gallery Do you remember where you were nine months ago? I do. On March 13, nine months ago as of this writing, I was out for dinner at a new restaurant, and it was packed. At the time, that wasn’t exactly a rarity. The most obvious perk of my job writing about restaurants for The Oregonian/OregonLive is getting to eat out at places new and old on the company dime. And spring is the time when I research our ann...