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The stylishly appointed Vintner’s Cellar is not your typical craft beer, local cider and wine bar. With plenty of parking around and a caress away from the Pearl it’s a calm oasis below cars that creep above along the ...

Vintner’s Cellar – Portland’s Interactive Posh and Pearl-ish Wine Advantage

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For the past ten years The Northwest Food & Wine Festival has built a reputation for offering the Slama Lama Ding Dong when it comes to festival fare, whether in liquid or solid forms. Known for the highest quality ...

NW Food & Wine Festival Marks 10th Year November 14, 2015

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Tony Meyers is slender and understated aside from his arms rife with tattoos, but behind this quietness is one super fine chef that would sooner be behind the line - of a fishing rod. You ask Tony about the fishing photos on ...

Tony Meyers is Behind the Line

Restaurants

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With cooler temperatures prevailing and the sun waning, at this time of year we turn to hearty reds and even heartier fare. With all the controversy regarding the mass-produced industrial protein sources raised in confined, ...

Wild Game and Wine

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Austin Eats Portland by Forrest Preece I'm an Austin native with almost seven decades under my belt here. But for something like 15 years we have been traveling to Portland to hang out with our friends  during August ...

Austin Eats PDX

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So you are trying to impress your guests. You’ve planned a great theme and made some delicious food. You've spent more than you should on the wine; so how do you know you are getting the most out of your wine when you ...

Are You Getting The Most Out Of The Wine You Serve?

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Discovering one of the most inviting restaurant locations doesn’t happen every day. In a town of wildly publicized hot spots it’s both unexpected and unusual to stumble upon an “Undiscovered Oregon” location like ...

Mark’s on the Channel – Oregon’s Undiscovered Dining Hot Spot

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Kevin, the owner of Fuel Café, just might be one of the last survivors from days gone by on Alberta. He grew up in this neighborhood when times were rough and has returned to run a restaurant he likes to refer to as ...

Fuel Café will Make Your Belly Smile

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Early in the morning Chef Nizlek comes into the kitchen to prepare almost 100% locally sourced dishes for his diners at Silver Grille aptly named after the historic town of Silverton Oregon. Jeff sources local ingredients ...

Silver Grille Gives A Winning Bite

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As our own gastronomical take on March Madness 2015, a four person team from Northwest Food & Wine Guide decided to spend two days a week dining at restaurants that were participating in the Portland Dining Month $29 ...

March Madness – Portland Dining Month

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On November 16th Behind the Line Consulting, the new restaurant centric consulting agency and sister company of The NW Food & Wine Festival,  collaborated together to celebrate some fun celebrities being in town, The ...

A Weekend Celebration ends with 23Hoyt, Allium Bistro and Serratto Channeling Goat Cheese.

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Food Artists or Farmers That take Great Pictures – They are worth a thousand words – where ever the conversation is held. When browsing the produce section at my local market, I could choose between 'regular' tomatoes ...

Food Artists or Farmers That Take Great Pictures

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