Pechluck's Food Adventures
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I am Pech. This blog chronicles adventures in eating, dining out, and cooking and imbibing with an appreciation for local Portland deliciousness or wherever travels may lead me.
Pechluck's Food Adventures
2w ago
It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years of Nodoguro in Portland – and I’ve been a huge fan since their first pop-up at the then Yakuza space and continuing to be a return diner every year through the years. A quick link list is at the bottom in case you want to browse some of the ones that made it into my blog in the past.
My first time in April 2014 at the Yakuza Lounge
June 2014 Firefly Menu
July 2014 Tanabata Mitsuri
Haruki Murakami August themed pop-up
Totoro Theme
MacDonald’s Menu
Twin Peaks Dinner
Hardcore Omakase Sushi 2015
Harajuku Theme
Hardcore Sushi Omakase Feb 2016
Yurukyara Grand ..read more
Pechluck's Food Adventures
1M ago
Portland Tartare Tour Week Offering for March 18-24 – five Westward Whiskey special edition cocktails crafted to pair with a beef tartare dish from five participating locations in Portland, to benefit three local food-focused charities: Hunger Free Oregon, Zenger Farm, and Milk Crate Kitchen.
Which pairing do you want to try?
Scotch Lodge:
CURIOSER AND CURIOSER: Shiitake Butter-Washed Westward American Single Malt, Giffard Cacao, Vanilla
TARTARE PAIRING: Pine Nuts, Shiitake, Cacio de Roma, Rakkyo
(raising funds for Zenger Farm)
I admit this was my favorite because I loved how the two complim ..read more
Pechluck's Food Adventures
1M ago
The average person, when thinking about Oregon seafood, or Pacific Northwest seafood, may think about Dungeness crab, wild chinook salmon, oysters, perhaps the Oregon coast stops as you drive down the Pacific Coast Highway 101 and see signs for clam chowder and fish and chips. Make no mistake though, Oregon Albacore Tuna is an important catch of the Oregon’s fishing industry, and if you are making a checklist of all the bounty of the Oregon Coast, you should be specifically seeking out Oregon albacore in your food goals of tasting what our west coast has to offer. In doing so you will also be ..read more
Pechluck's Food Adventures
1M ago
We celebrated our wedding anniversary with a multi-course progressive tasting menu with wine pairings at ōkta. The timing was with the ōkta Peak Summer Menu Mid-August – Mid-September, part of the Farm Seasion (July-October) where the tasting menu highlights their hearth mimicking the summer sun and its impact on flavor. I had the regular tasting ōkta menu while F had the vegan version – you can see some examples of the slight differences, it was fun discussing what flavors we had in our versions – most of them were very close. We had the same wine pairings every course.
Friendship
Chrysanthe ..read more
Pechluck's Food Adventures
1M ago
Fullerton Wine has a tasting room in the Slabtown area on NW Pettygrove, with a unique perspective of offering wine to highlight all the AVA (American Viticultural Area) of the Willamette Valley. To help this vision, winemaker Alex Fullerton and father Eric offers fine wine and they love pairing with food, offering dinners and dueling pairings with other winemakers. I’ve attended and loved a dinner previously, and recently attended another one with their new executive chef Andrew Thomas who recently started offering winemaker pairing dinner menu options for non-meat those reducing meat eaters ..read more
Pechluck's Food Adventures
1M ago
Grand Amari has just opened at the Hotel Grand Stark at inner SE Portland, offering a new premiere food and drink destination featuring old school traditional Italian flavors, from great ingredients that are highlighted simply by their pantry of almost a dozen incredible olive oils and paired with wines and stories of small producers so far out they may not even speak Italian, or ask for a suggested pairing from over 60 amari. The list is written to include stars to denote the amount of bitterness, and helpful flavor descriptions such as “cola, sasparilla, gentian” for Amaro Dente Di Leon, “sa ..read more
Pechluck's Food Adventures
1M ago
Feeling like a little bit of a taste of England after seeing all the coronation photos and gossip this past weekend? Check out Winston’s British Fish N Chips, the first food truck of many to come – they are looking to open more in the US. The truck and fish and chips are named for Winston the Royal Corgi of Chef Darren McGrady’s YouTube channel.
Chef McGrady prepared fish and British chips as Personal Chef to Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, Princes William and Harry, and others at Buckingham Palace including five US Presidents and now brings these recipes to US, and serving them through m ..read more
Pechluck's Food Adventures
1M ago
In my previous post, I provided some of my research in traveling from Portland to Crater Lake National Park by car and some stops along the road trip you could take along Highway 58. In today’s post, I’ll share some stops along the scenic and historic Rim Drive and the views of the different blues you may see depending on your weather conditions. The Rim Drive is 33 miles of road that goes around the whole of Crater Lake, with plenty of pull-outs and parking and 30 overlooks with lake views and vistas to see along the loop. I will cover what we did when there was not enough visibility to view ..read more
Pechluck's Food Adventures
1M ago
In July of 2022, I took a trip to one of the top of my Oregon wishlist destinations – Crater Lake. I had always wanted to visit since I moved to Oregon 13 years ago, but I also specifically wanted to stay inside the park at the only lodging with views of the lake, Crater Lake Lodge. In this first post of my series, let me walk you through some logistics of planning in case it will help you plan your Crater Lake adventure. In particular, I will highlight the route from Portland using Highway (Hwy) 58 to Crater Lake.
Lodging
My desire to stay inside the park was to make watching sunrise and sun ..read more
Pechluck's Food Adventures
1M ago
Recently I hosted a Finders Seekers Mystery night for six people at my house. Finders Seekers is a monthly subscription box (though you can skip boxes anytime which I do) where each month the mystery takes place in a different travel destination in the world. This box was for Barcelona. I decided to make a vegan paella for our little party.
With each box Finders Seekers provides some suggested immersive experience ideas for the travel destination in the form of a music playlist on Spotify and food and drink recipes. We used their playlist from their Barcelona immersion ideas, but the recipes ..read more