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Portland Dining Month 2017 – Recap

March 30, 2017 by Pechluck 7 Comments

I wrote about what Portland Dining Month is in a previous post, and gave some highlights of what piqued my interest on the list. Here are a few images from where I was able to dine in March!

Bluehour

Extras: bread service, amuse bouche from chef

First course: Roasted beet terrine of goat cheese, trout roe, pea tendrils and saba
I found these to be beautiful and the bites are intensely flavored with roasted beet and creamy goat cheese.

Second course: Braised Muscovy duck leg with chestnut dumplings, charred leeks, shallots and a red wine jus
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A lunch at Angelini Osteria in LA

March 28, 2017 by Pechluck 7 Comments

While on the plane from Portland to Los Angeles, I was reading Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford. Reading as he tries to master pasta in Italy was giving me crazy cravings for pasta which I got my fix at Forma Restaurant as I wrote last week, but also for the simple seasonal food he writes about that Italians are known for there despite the Italian American images of hearty pastas and red sauce and meatballs with garlic bread. My sister recommended we try out a lunch at Angelini Osteria, and it was incredible. It really felt like it was airlifted from Italy to this street in LA, bringing both the food and atmosphere and accented waiters all with.

The menu is pretty extensive. You can nosh on some tasty flatbread as you consider your many options.
Example lunch menu from Angelini Osteria in LA Crispy flatbread as part of the bread service from Angelini Osteria in LA

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Filed Under: Food and Drink, Restaurant Review, Travel Tagged With: #traveltuesday, Angelini Osteria, Grilled Branzino with mixed baby greens, Italian Food in LA, Italian food in Los Angeles, Italian in LA, Italian in Los Angeles, LA Dining, LA Eats, LA Foodie, LA Italian Food, Lasagna Verde Nonna Elvira, Linguine with Santa Barbara Sea Urchin, Linguine with Sea Urchin, Los Angeles Dining, Los Angeles Eats, Los Angeles Foodie, Los Angeles Italian Food, Mixed Fish Soup, Polipo with Warm Mediterranean Octopus, Red Beets with fresh Burrata, Travel Tuesday, Tuscan Farro Salad, Zuppa del Nonno

Spring Musicals at Portland Center Stage

March 27, 2017 by Pechluck 2 Comments

The dressing rooms, hallways, and stages are alive with music at PCS! This past weekend, Portland Center Stage debuted the world premier of of two new shows both featuring music: Wild and Reckless: A New Concert Event with Blitzen Trapper (running until April 30, 2017) and Lauren Weedman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (running until April 30, 2017).

I attended both and here’s are my thoughts on the Spring Musicals at Portland Center Stage.

Wild and Reckless: A New Concert Event with Blitzen Trapper

Portland Center Stage and Wild and Reckless: A New Musical Event from Blitzen Trapper. Written and Performed By Blitzen Trapper, Directed by Rose Riordan and Liam Kaas-Lentz Poster Design by Michael Buchino Photo by Kate Szrom

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Quaintrelle

March 24, 2017 by Pechluck 6 Comments

Spring is almost here… it’s been such so dreary and relentless with the rain so far. I keep reminding myself that the rain is what helps make the crops grow. Recently, I visited Quaintrelle, which focuses on Pacific Northwest cuisine with 80-85% of their food sourced locally and especially loves to show off the natural flavors when ingredients are so direct farm to table.

Quaintrelle is located in a little corner that may seem a little hidden from North Mississipi , but it also means when the weather improves they will be able to fill the patio portion in front between its doors and the streets with some great tables so you can dine al fresco and people-watch in this fun neighborhood.
Quaintrelle: A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and a cultivation of life's pleasures. Or a charming Pacific Northwest cuisine focused Portland restaurant that emphasizes 80-85% local ingredients.

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Filed Under: Food and Drink, Restaurant Review, Sponsored Post Tagged With: A Conjugal Visit cocktail, beets with watermelon radishes, cheese dumplings, coffee pudding with vanilla cream and shortbread cookies, Formulated Charm cocktail, Lamb shank with squash and aleppo pepper, Ling cod with borlotto beans and manila clams, mushrooms and stinging nettles and chevre on toast, Old Soul cocktail, olive oil cake with lemon curd and huckleberry, pdx cocktail, PDX Cocktails, portland cocktail, portland cocktails, raw beef with horseradish, sheep cheese dumplings with mushrooms and radicchio, stinging nettles on toast, This Too Shall Pass cocktail

Pasta in a Cheese Wheel in LA

March 21, 2017 by Pechluck 8 Comments

Travel Tuesday is back, thanks to a recent trip to LA. These trips have been to visit family, so I prioritized being able to spend as much time with family, particularly my new niece who turns 6 months old at the end of March, and her schedule of feedings and naps. Generally this meant food at home via delivery or take out and leftovers from lunch – and I try to keep my asks reasonable at maybe 2 restaurants I want to try out each visit. Recently, the big one on my list was to eat pasta finished in a cheese wheel, which I found is offered at lunch and dinner at Forma Restaurant in Santa Monica.

Forma is named after cheese and all about the cheese. Their cheese bar offers more then 50 cheeses, breaking up the cheese sectiosn based on hardness (soft ripened, washed rind, semi-soft, semi-hard) and a whole section for just truffled cheese (cheese with white or black truffle). They have a few US cheeses from California, Vermont, Wisconsin, New York, and Oregon, but most are imported from Italy, France, Holland, England and Spain. This does not count the fresh cheeses like burrata and the mozzarella knots that you can also find in their small plates section. Of course I got burrata. This is the Burrata Stracciata with creamy burrata, prosciutto, plum ad citrus conserva, and micro basil.
Forma Restaurant offers an impressive cheese bar with more then 50 cheeses, a few from the US but mostly from France, Italy, Spain, England, and Holland, but also a few fresh cheeses not part of that 50 count on their small plates menu such as mozzarella knots or this dish of Burrata Stracciata with creamy burrata, prosciutto, plum ad citrus conserva, and micro basil

We ordered another starter of Filet Mignon Tartare, a dish of avocado, fresno chile pepper, capers, shallot, parmigiano, on grilled bread. I was really happy to see them go to the cheese bar in the back to freshly shave the parmigiano from the cheese wheel and bury these toasts in them!
At Forma Restaurant Filet Mignon Tartare, a dish of avocado, fresno chile pepper, capers, shallot, parmigiano, on grilled bread. I was really happy to see them go to the cheese bar in the back to freshly shave the parmigiano from the cheese wheel and bury these toasts in them

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Archives for March 2017

Portland Dining Month 2017 – Recap

Bluehour

A lunch at Angelini Osteria in LA

Spring Musicals at Portland Center Stage

Wild and Reckless: A New Concert Event with Blitzen Trapper

Quaintrelle

Pasta in a Cheese Wheel in LA

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