Food and Drink

The International Food Blogger Conference will not only be an opportunity to learn about food, writing, and technology, but it will also be a delicious dining experience!

Food and Wine Reception

A selection of fine wines from Oregon's Washington County

More to come!

A Taste of Oregon and Gourmet Fair

Biwa Japanese Restaurant

Biwa restaurant serves homestyle Japanese food including yakitori, handmade ramen and udon, and plenty of sake. Vegan options are available.

Boke Bowl
Boke Bowl started as a monthly pop-up experience in Portland, Oregon in September of 2010. After just over one year, Boke opened a casual ramen shop in Portland's Central Eastside Industrial District. Boke Bowl serves ramen with handmade noodles, unique slow simmered dashis, and seasonally changing accoutrements aimed to satisfy carnivores, pescatarians, vegans, and children. Other dishes include seasonal steam buns, fresh salads, house-brined pickles, and miso butterscotch twinkies. Boke also hosts a weekly Korean Fried Chicken Night.

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What's the Scoop?

Of course we have an award winning vanilla, and a deeply luscious chocolate, but Portland is a thought-leading city when it comes to food and we take full advantage of both an abundant supply of fresh ingredients and a population willing to stretch the boundaries of traditional tastes. With flavors like Peanut Butter Curry, Toasted Almond with Candied Cherries and Roquefort Honey, we run the gamut from sweet to savory and can also design a flavor to custom fit a restaurant menu. 

Our ice cream is all natural and hormone free; and our flavors are real, not chemicals dripped out of a squirt bottle. We focus on the best quality of ingredients, using local sources who use sustainable processes whenever possible.

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Random Order Coffeehouse & Bakery is a vibrant neighborhood cafe specializing in extraordinary handmade sweet & savory pies.

We make and bake our sweet & savory pies by hand.  We pay particular attention the freshness of our ingredients and the craft of transforming them. Award winning PIE is one result. We also serve warm out of the oven homemade pastries, rich espresso drinks, egg sandwiches & cocktails.

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Departure is the rooftop restaurant atop the Nines Hotel featuring breathtaking views and Modern Asian cuisine. Departure creates modern, accessible Asian cuisine using traditional techniques learned in the kitchens of the Far East. We are committed to offering Portland diners the most authentic ingredients from the Mongolian steppe to the ancient capital of Kyoto for the most unique Modern Portland Asian cuisine.

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Urban Farmer, located on the 8th floor of the Nines Hotel, is a modern steakhouse with a focus on sustainability. With emphasis on local, organic sourcing and simple straightforward presentations, Urban Farmer redefines the modern Portland steakhouse. The ambiance is at once a tribute to the quaintness of a restored farmhouse and the aesthetic audacity of mid-20th century modernism. The country chic décor designed by David Ashen uses organic, reclaimed and modern materials such as a twenty-foot communal table sourced from an old-growth Douglas Fir.

Their menus reflect an emphasis on Northwest, sustainable ingredients and simple, straightforward preparations. They offer a range of beef options including grass-fed Oregon beef, pasture-raised, grain-finished beef, as well as corn-fed beef. Their beverage program extends the theme of local and sustainable with a 350-bottle wine list, beer selections from the Portland city limits and cocktails made with Oregon spirits. Focusing on sustainable practices, Urban Farmer creates a connection between the diner and our local farmers, ranchers, distillers and winemakers.

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The Original, Portland's downtown destination for all-day dining, serves up playful variations on the classic standards. Our inspired menu of eclectic American cuisine takes on regional favorites and modifies them with local and seasonal ingredients resulting in flavors and textures unique to the Pacific Northwest.

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The Veggie Grill provides comfort food that is wholesome, delicious, convenient, and affordable. Co-Founders T.K. Pillan and Kevin Boylan, along with Operating Partner Ray White, began transforming the way Southern Californians enjoy classic American favorites in 2006 when they opened the first location of The Veggie Grill at University Center in Irvine. Five years later, The Veggie Grill is successfully operating ten outposts including two in Portland, OR, two in Irvine, one in El Segundo, one in Santa Monica, one in Hollywood, one in Long Beach and another at the Original Farmer’s Market on Fairfax. The popular independent, premium fast-casual restaurant  is known for making amazingly flavorful and wholesome food with 100% plant based ingredients, including complete, high-protein, hearty “veggie-meats” that break the stereotype of bland, mushy vegetarian food.

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Northwest Distillery's Lavishmint is derived from a precise mixture of spearmint and peppermint with a touch of lime. Northwest grown mint is the best in the world and it is now perfected when added to crisp vodka based with pure Oregon water.

Enjoyed by vodka connoisseurs as the drink of choice for the lavish lifestyle… enjoy it 'straight up,' over a cool bed of ice, or as the basis of your favorite cocktail. Refreshing with soda and lime, amazing in mojitos and delicious with hot chocolate, Lavishmint is a year-round necessity in all liquor cabinets.

Whatever your intentions, let your imagination and your sense of taste be your guide. Delightfully crisp and clean.

Luxury, Redefined.

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Smokehouse 21 rubs and smokes a variety of barbecued fish, fowl, pig, lamb and cow. All of our meat and vegetables are sourced from local butchers and farmers, and the buns for our sandwiches come from Ken’s Artisan Bakery, right here in Portland.Sticky, sweet, smoky food you’ll want to eat with your hands!  In addition of to offering a fine selection of wines and soft drinks, we also offer beer. In a can. In fact, our Craft Beer-in-a-Can Menu is one of the most comprehensive in the Pacific Northwest.

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Every spirit that is brought to life at House Spirits Distillery echoes of years gone by. We have great respect for our distilling elders and incorporate old world philosophy into our products for the savvy new world palate. We have achieved well-balanced and flavorful spirits that embody complexity and timelessness. Each of our spirits have personality, and each spirit we release has the richness and craftsmanship to be enjoyed on their own. These engaging liquors and liqueurs will also lend beautifully to your best-loved drinks and cocktails.

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USA Pears

Today, the United States is the second largest pear producing country in the world, and more than 55 countries look to the U.S. for sweet and juicy fresh pears. The orchards of Oregon and Washington in particular allow heirloom varieties of pears to flourish to perfection in their pastoral terrain, with 84% of the country's fresh pears being grown in these two Pacific Northwest states.

Ten principal varieties of pears are grown in Oregon and Washington, each with its own color, flavor and texture. These pears are each picked by hand, and they are renowned as being some of the world’s finest. Across the U.S. and around the world, these delectable pears from Oregon and Washington are sold under the USA Pears brand and are highly regarded as a premium quality fruit. 

Oregon and Washington’s 1,600 pear growers carefully harvest each delicate pear by hand, and are clearly committed to providing the world with their premium quality pears. As stewards of the land, they tend their naturally prime landscape, where moisture from meandering rivers and glacial snowmelt feeds the region's nutrient-rich volcanic soil to make the perfect foundation for pear tree nourishment. With this ideal growing environment, it's no wonder their sublime USA Pears are prized across the U.S. and around the world.  

Spend more time on this website for more information about USA Pears!  For recipes from top chefs, visit our sister site:  www.PearPanache.com.

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Cabot Cheese

Cabot Creamery is a 1,200 farm family dairy cooperative with members in New England and upstate New York. We value our roots as a cooperative — and as a way of doing business.

Being a co-op, we are owned and operated by our members, which for Cabot are our farmers and their families.

As a cooperative, we honor the Rochdale Cooperative Principles in every aspect of our operations. We value community, quality, democracy and local ownership. Our owners serve on school boards and select boards. They are volunteer firefighters, planning commission members and environmental clean-up participants.

Through our principles and actions we support the communities where we live as well as where we do business. This is what makes us different among other food companies.

Cabot doesn't work alone — we have business partners throughout the country with whom we share these principles and values. We believe that the work we do together makes an important difference in the lives of our families, friends and neighbors.

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Safest Choice Eggs

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You'll discover that Safest Choice™ Pasteurized Eggs look, cook, and taste like other eggs. In fact, they've earned the prestigious American Culinary Federation Seal of Approval! Hormone Free • Antibiotic Free • Kosher Certified • Halal Certified

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Saturday Breakfast

Breakfast is generously provided by PorkCares.org (Menu details coming soon! Vegetarian/vegan options will be available too). Upholding their commitment to responsible farming, U.S. pork producers affirm their obligation to:

• Produce safe food
• Protect and promote animal well-being
• Ensure practices to protect public health
• Safeguard natural resources
• Provide a safe work environment
• Contribute to a better quality of life in our communities

Saturday Evening Farm-to-Table Dinner

Enjoy an amazing family-style dinner prepared by Wildwood Restaurant and Bar with delicious local wines provided and paired by Oregon Wine.

At Wildwood, the complexity of their dishes comes from the depth of flavor from locally sourced ingredients. Executive Chef Dustin and the Wildwood staff create seasonal menus featuring the best from local farmers, artisans, winemakers, brewers and distillers.

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The Oregon Wine Board is a semi-independent Oregon state agency managing marketing, research and education initiatives that support and advance the Oregon wine and wine grape industry. The Board works on behalf of all Oregon wineries and independent growers throughout the state’s diverse winegrowing regions. The Oregon wine grape and wine industry contributes more than $2.7 billion in economic activity to the state economy each year, including more than 13,518 wine-related jobs and $382 million in wages.

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Sunday Nutiva Organic Vegan Breakfast

Enjoy a delicious selection of organic vegan products generously provided by Nutiva.

Nutiva is an innovative leader in the health food industry. Since 1999 they have operated as a values-driven company dedicated to nourishing people and planet. They’re building a business characterized by high standards in all aspects of their company, from the organic farms that grow their foods, through the production, packaging, and transportation of their products, to the Nutiva associates who communicate with their retailers and the people who enjoy their products.

Their watchwords—nutritious superfoods, healthier people, and a sustainable planet —express their commitment to move beyond conventional food industry practices to embrace a bigger picture that supports the long-term well-being of humanity as a whole.

Nutiva’s purpose is to produce the highest quality organic superfoods , providing superior nutritional value to their customers while supporting sustainable agricultural practices and a fair return to the farmers on whom they depend. They donate 1 percent of their sales to groups that promote sustainable agriculture. They educate people worldwide on current developments in nutritional science, organic farming, green energy, and fair trade practices within the global economy.

At Nutiva they continually innovate so that they can better contribute to the health and happiness of their customers as well as the sustainability of our planet.

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View past menus from IFBC 2011 in New Orleans and Santa Monica!