By David & Susan Greenberg Your beloved aunt, for reasons you’ll never fathom, kept a goat in her basement. Her home was overrun with cats as others are with termites. She once…
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Clamming Excursion includes Local Clam Chowder, Local Pottery Bowls – Join Shifting Tides June 20th
Want to catch your meal – go clamming – and then have a local chef treat to you a bowl (in a one-of-kind bowl from a local potter that you get to…
Local Brewery de Garde Brewing Celebrates 10 Years with Beer Festival
Story, Photos & Video by Don Backman for the Tillamook County Pioneer (May 6, 2023 – Garibaldi, Oregon) – “It’s crazy that we are here ten years later,” Linsey Rogers of de…
ARDENT GOURMET: JAndy Oyster Co.
By David & Susan Greenberg The room fizzed with happy folks swaying to the beat, lifting pork ribs, lifting crab claws, slurping oysters, spooning chowder, tilting glasses, conversing, hugging, laughing. Children scampered…
Car Crashes into Building, Closes Current Cafe in Oceanside
***Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office Report – April 11, 2023 – 1:12 pm *** At approximately 10:30am this morning, Tillamook County Sheriff’s Deputies Jordan Reyes, Chris Rondeau and Ben Berger, responded with Netarts-Oceanside…
No April Fool’s Joke – Alderbrook Re-Opens for Golf April 1st – VIDEO
Story, Video & Photos by Don Backman “At 8:20 we’ll have the ceremonial swing,” Pat Zweifel said. “I would do it, but I haven’t actually swung a golf club before,” he joked…
Winter Waters Gets Oregon-Grown Seaweed Onto Local Menus; Event Finale at The Salmonberry in Wheeler April 2nd
A series of dining events in Portland and along the Oregon Coast put sea vegetables front and center, shining a light on bottlenecks and opportunities for Oregon’s seafare supply chain. In February,…
ARDENT GOURMET: A tablespoon of Astoria, a teaspoon of Seaside
By David & Susan Greenberg The sea lions barked like feral middle-schoolers taunting a hapless substitute teacher who took a wrong turn into Hell. Luckily, they were beneath the docks on the…
ARDENT GOURMET: Best Oregon Restaurant Dishes 2022
EDITOR’S NOTE: Keeping with the “best of” theme, here’s the Pioneer’s intrepid restaurant reviewers “top 6” picks for 2022. Watch for more tasty travails throughout Tillamook County (and beyond!) from the Ardent…
ARDENT GOURMET: Review of Taste of Sichuan
EDITOR’S NOTE: Trips to the valley are often accompanied by a stop for particular foodie treats. The Ardent Gourmet introduces us to a great option, conveniently just off Hwy. 26 at the…