Serving up steaks to Portland (Oregon) residents since 1944, the RingSide has been continuously owned by the Peterson family for over 60 years.  The restaurants has received award from local and national wine, fine dining, and steakhouse organizations.  Portland residents frequently list it as one of their top special occasion restaurants.
While smoking at the restaurants is a thing of the past, enjoying their great steaks is not.  With two locations, downtown at  2165 West Burnside and Glendoveer at 14021 NE Glisan, RingSide is not far from wherever you are in the Portland area.
Do you have a matchbook that you’ve …read more

A recent trip to Portland had me out hopping around some places that have opened up since I had been there several years ago.  Today’s Matchbook Monday features one of those places, a Pan American Bistro in the Eliot Neighborhood, Mint.
A visit to Mint actually gives you two options, the more formal dining of Mint (the restaurant), or the bar and its menu door at 820.
On my visit, my companion and I opted for the bar.  We sat at the bar, chatting with the bartender for a recommendation as to a good food and beverage choice.  Upon her recommendation, …read more

The city of Portland has as sordid an underground history as my home city of Seattle does, and, like Seattle, it makes for a fun walking tour.
There were plenty of nefarious deeds going on above ground, but the underground was where the really fun stuff was happening.  In the subterranean world of Chinatown, you can still see impressive architecture from years gone by, looking nothing like the modern city in the photo. 
Below ground you’ll find the “Shanghai Tunnels.”  The tunnels originally connected the basements of most of the downtown hotels and bars to the Willamette waterfront, and were used to …read more