Portland OR 2024

Portland OR is my favorite get-away weekend in the Pacific Northwest. It’s the closest to Seattle at three hours. The coast or the San Juans are more scenic but lack a variety of dining choices—and take longer to get there, sometimes much longer. See what I enjoyed at Urdaneta, St. Jacks, Bluto’s and the Phuket Cafe.

Basque Cuisine, Portland Oregon, restaurant review, Greek cuisine, French cuisine, Spanish cuisine, Thai cuisine, Japanese Garden PDXKaren TripsonJune 18, 2024PDX, blutos PDX, St Jacks PDX, urdaneta PDX, Phuket Cafe PDX, portland art museum

Heat Wave Entertaining

Set a pretty table for hot summer night entertaining — with or without candles.

Cookbooks, seasonal menu, summer menu, party food, Portland Oregon, restaurants, rotisserie cookingKaren TripsonJuly 31, 2022summer menu, watermelon salad, pok pok portland, pok pok hens, ike's wings, Ike's Vietnamese Fish Sauce Wings, Kai Yaang, Thai hens, Pok Pok, pok pok cookbook

Holiday Vacation in PDX

The week before Christmas is one of my favorite times to visit Portland-PDX-in travelers’ parlance. PDX has ambiance and a lively restaurant and bar scene.

Basque, Basque Cuisine, vintage cocktails, Japanese cuisine, Portland Oregon, travel, bar hop PDXKaren TripsonJanuary 9, 2022takibi, Jim Meehan, The PDT Cocktail Book, urdaneta, silvercloud, Portland, portland art museum, PDX, The Chinese Gardens

What's Cooking in PDX

Follow me on an extravagant tour of Portland in summer of 2019. Cuisine, cocktails and culture!

Pok Pok Noi: Som Cocktails+

Drinking vinegars are a big trend in craft cocktails and Pok Pok is not content with making them in house or quietly. Look in your local market to purchase and ask if they don't have them in stock yet.