By David & Susan Greenberg With a genius matched by few, we arrived in Ilwaco at the same instant that one of the great ice storms of the last decade arrived (January…
Category: Restaurants
ARDENT GOURMET: Bay City Kitchen – A Star is Born
By David & Susan Greenberg Tillamook County has never been fertile ground for apex restaurants, the kind sought after by food obsessives (like ourselves). Tradition, tastes, and wallets have deterred their presence….
ARDENT GOURMET: New Taste of India Food Truck, Rockaway Beach – Some of the best …
EDITOR’S NOTE: There’s been a food cart explosion throughout Tillamook County. The Ardent Gourmet has been busy making stops at many locations. Watch for more food cart/truck reviews. Check out the Pioneer’s…
ARDENT GOURMET: Sab, Favorite Asian Fusion Food Cart, Flavors on First, Tillamook
EDITOR’S NOTE: There’s been a food cart explosion throughout Tillamook County. The Ardent Gourmet has been busy making stops at many locations. Watch for more food cart/truck reviews. Check out the Pioneer’s…
THE OCEANSIDER: Three Arch Inn Owner to Proceed with Plan to Terminate Cafe/Surf Shop Lease; Road Closure Lower Maxell Mtn. Rd. Sept. 27th
By Jerry Keene, Editor, The Oceansider Oceansiders were saddened this week by news that Three Arch Inn owner Duane Bauley will not be extending the lease currently held by owners of the Oceanside Surf Shop/Current…
ARDENT GOURMET: Review of Chicken and Guns, Gales Creek
By David & Susan Greenberg Legend has it that notorious bank-robber, John Dillinger, once escaped from prison by carving a potato into the shape of a gun, dyeing it black with iodine,…
ARDENT GOURMET: Review of Downies Cafe in Bay City
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…
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…
