Cynthia

Restaurant website
Location: Pioneer Square-ish, across from Fox Regal Cinemas
Price to fill up two people: About $60, with dessert

After the movie (Kat and I had gone to see Bottle Shock), we headed across the street to Dragonfish. It was about 9:40 pm, and the restaurant was dark and deserted. “We have 19 minutes before we [...]

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Restaurant website
Location: Beaverton
Price to fill up two people: About $35

For several years now I’ve been moaning about the westside burbs of Portland and their chronic inability to get past the whitebread suburban restaurant mentality, i.e., that the restaurant spectrum can be neatly encompassed by McDonalds-Hooters-Cheesecake Factory.
I stand corrected–Thailand Restaurant, wedged between a Fred Meyer, a [...]

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Restaurant website
Location: Northeast (Lloyd Center)
Price to fill up two people: About $40

My cousins and I hit up “Dark Night,” the new Batman movie on Sunday night. (As an aside, it was pretty violent and also pretty good, if a tad preachy.) Afterwards, we stood outside the cinema, blinking in the bright light, and tried to [...]

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Local site (review)
Location: Downtown/Chinatown (Pearl)
Price to fill up two people for dinner: About $30

The signs outside (and in) said “Best dim sum in Portland.” The waitress, however, seemed puzzled. “You want dim sum?”
Yes, we said firmly. Dim sum.
She shook her head, went back to the kitchen (which, for some reason, was loaded with boxes [...]

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PKThai website
Location: Pearl district (Park and Everett)
Cost to fill up two people: $30-$40

Despite a toxic mood, unassuaged even by an hour-long bubble bath up to my chin (long story), I headed down to the Pearl tonight to meet Robyn for dinner at Peem Kaew Thai. The folks at Bullseye Gallery had recommended it the day [...]

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