By David & Susan Greenberg Beside the mighty Columbia River, overlooking gargantuan ships circled by tugboats like remoras, Coffee Girl sits within a chamber of what had once been an enormous cannery…
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ARDENT GOURMET: Fedé Trattoria, Astoria
By David & Susan Greenberg Astoria started as a fist-fighting harbor town. There were steam rooms for Finnish sailors. Finnish was a dominant second language. There were canneries galore to steer unending…
ARDENT GOURMET: Hapa Pizza
Hapa Pizza By David & Susan Greenberg Hapa Pizza, one of the thirty best pizza restaurants in the United States according to the New York Times, serves mainly pizzas with Asian toppings….
ARDENT GOURMET SMALL BITES: Yuubi Sushi and Bar June
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….
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…