By David & Susan Greenberg Mediterranean Decarli restaurant is where to go when you’re weary of keeping up with novel cuisines like food native to Pitcairn Island or Neptune. This is classic…
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ARDENT GOURMET “Small Bites”: Ate Oh Ate
By David & Susan Greenberg Ate Oh Ate serves Hawaiian food with a funky-monkey, laid back, beach-shack vibe. The food is vaguely Asian and several dishes unashamedly include Spam, possibly Hawaii’s favorite…
ARDENT GOURMET “Small Bites”: Afuri Ramen & Dumpling
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is a series of quick reviews from our Ardent Gourmet, out and about the Portland Metro area. By David & Susan Greenberg Afuri Ramen & Dumpling is a Japanese…
ARDENT GOURMET: A SWEET STAY IN SALEM, OREGON
By David & Susan Greenberg Past filbert orchards, past long fences over which horses hung their heads, past a gamboling lamb, past rhododendrons lit by pink blossoms, past farmhouses built when manual…
ARDENT GOURMET: A Spring Week in Rome
By David and Susan Greenberg We heard: 1/ An avalanche of empty wine bottles from each night’s revelry poured from dumpsters into trucks for removal at 4 AM, like the sound of…
ARDENT GOURMET: Cannon Beach, Glad to be Back
By David & Susan Greenberg With much affection, we’ve visited Cannon Beach since the 1970s. Recently, after a long gap living foreign, we returned for two nights. We stayed at the Stephanie…
ARDENT GOURMET: Paadee – “Brings good things”
By David & Susan Greenberg Imagine taking a barrel of fermented cabbage (sauerkraut), dumping it into an enormous sieve, and collecting its liquid. Fish Sauce is the sauerkraut juice of the fish…
ARDENT GOURMET: FuddoYama Ramen, Teriyaki, Restaurant with a Robot
By David & Susan Greenberg, The Ardent Gourmet Apparently a robot vacuum and a step stool met on Tinder and begat the robot who stood motionlessly nearby the counter at FuddoYama Ramen,…
ARDENT GOURMET: Crab Rock Pizza (& Gelato!)
by David & Susan Greenberg Ted Lasso’s Dani Rojas says that “Futbol is life.” We understand the sentiment but cordially disagree. Futbol (i.e., soccer) is not really a sport. It’s an activity…
ARDENT GOURMET: ILWACO ON ICE
By David & Susan Greenberg With a genius matched by few, we arrived in Ilwaco at the same instant that one of the great ice storms of the last decade arrived (January…
