By David & Susan Greenberg Yuubi Sushi is located within a house-like structure in Beaverton. It’s been rated as one of the ten best sushi restaurants in the Portland area by Eater….
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ARDENT GOURMET: Hearth & Table, Lincoln City
By David & Susan Greenberg David recounts, “On the day of my bar-mitzvah, my older brother ran away with a friend (for several hours) and the adults solemnly gathered to chart a…
ARDENT GOURMET “Small Bites”: Afuri Ramen & Dumpling
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is a series of quick reviews from our Ardent Gourmet, out and about the Portland Metro area. By David & Susan Greenberg Afuri Ramen & Dumpling is a Japanese…
ARDENT GOURMET: A SWEET STAY IN SALEM, OREGON
By David & Susan Greenberg Past filbert orchards, past long fences over which horses hung their heads, past a gamboling lamb, past rhododendrons lit by pink blossoms, past farmhouses built when manual…
ARDENT GOURMET: A Spring Week in Rome
By David and Susan Greenberg We heard: 1/ An avalanche of empty wine bottles from each night’s revelry poured from dumpsters into trucks for removal at 4 AM, like the sound of…
ARDENT GOURMET: Cannon Beach, Glad to be Back
By David & Susan Greenberg With much affection, we’ve visited Cannon Beach since the 1970s. Recently, after a long gap living foreign, we returned for two nights. We stayed at the Stephanie…
ARDENT GOURMET: Paadee – “Brings good things”
By David & Susan Greenberg Imagine taking a barrel of fermented cabbage (sauerkraut), dumping it into an enormous sieve, and collecting its liquid. Fish Sauce is the sauerkraut juice of the fish…
ARDENT GOURMET: FuddoYama Ramen, Teriyaki, Restaurant with a Robot
By David & Susan Greenberg, The Ardent Gourmet Apparently a robot vacuum and a step stool met on Tinder and begat the robot who stood motionlessly nearby the counter at FuddoYama Ramen,…
“Level Up Tillamook County” Small Business Feature: Wanda’s Cafe + Bakery Serving Up Delicious Dishes for 25 Years
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is our first in an on-going series of business features sponsored by the Economic Development Council of Tillamook County’s LEVEL UP Tillamook program. Have a suggestion for a small…
ARDENT GOURMET: Crab Rock Pizza (& Gelato!)
by David & Susan Greenberg Ted Lasso’s Dani Rojas says that “Futbol is life.” We understand the sentiment but cordially disagree. Futbol (i.e., soccer) is not really a sport. It’s an activity…
