Food Ambassador
Chef Ibrahim Hamide recalls nearly 50 years in Eugene
Eugene, Oregon, and Chef Ibrahim “Ib” Hamide, founder of Café Soriah on 13th Avenue, have been through a lot together: the tumultuous ’60s, the booming … Continue reading
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Pho Real
A city tour through bowls of soup
It survived colonial occupation, war, immigration and migration. Refugees helped spread it around the world. Today, Vietnamese beef noodle soup — called pho — is … Continue reading
Brewed With Love
Equiano Coffee Co. brews something special
The Equiano tasting room is tiny, calm and slow. I enter and am embraced with the redolence of expertly roasted coffee. Two older gentlemen sit … Continue reading
Divine Simplicity
Keeping it easy and authentic at Springfield's Hayden Bridge Tap House
The Hayden Bridge Tap House is full of happy customers on a Friday evening. Multiple screens flicker with basketball games, and classic rock is urging … Continue reading
The 100-Mile Diet
Adventures in Locavore Living
“If we had a cow,” my daughter said, hope resonant in her voice, “we wouldn’t have to go to the store at all.” We are … Continue reading
North-westward Expansion
Rain Northwest brings finer dining to west Eugene
For years the building at 1190 City View Street housed a dowdy local Mexican favorite named Nacho’s Restaurant, and for years the building blended right … Continue reading
The Oregon Trail
Explore food frontiers at Lewis + Clark Restaurant
Step into Lewis + Clark Restaurant, a catering service turned full-time brick ‘n’ mortar restaurant on Martin Luther King Boulevard Jr. Boulevard in Eugene you’re … Continue reading
Growing Concern
Yep Yep Farm fights to stay organic
Jason Waligoske and his wife, Louisa Waligoske, are farmers. They have a dilapidated collection of outbuildings and greenhouses on the 4.6-acre former plant nursery site … Continue reading
Truck Dreams
Authentic Mexican Food at Dos Banderas
The aroma of smoky mesquite lures your nostrils around the corner of West Broadway onto Olive Street, to Dos Banderas, the little food truck that … Continue reading
Differently Familiar
Izakaya Oyazi provides Japanese nightlife and 'tongue-happy' traditional foods
If Eugene were Japan, there would be an izakaya on every corner — maybe several. Most of them would be street stalls specializing in only one type of food, such as fish soup. Some, like the newly opened Izakaya Oyazi in the space of the former Granary Pizza restaurant, would have a broad menu. Continue reading