Oregon Live - Food & Dining oregonlive.com/dining

The Portland Oregonian’s thorough dining guide, covering the entire state and also southwestern Washington.

Portland Food & Drink portlandfoodanddrink.com

A serious food blog with smart, critical writing. Reviews are timely and internally consistent, with a heavy culinary focus.

PFAD says: “Portland Food and Drink was born out of increasing discomfort with the timbre of reviews in the Portland area. It seemed like every restaurant received a great review in the Portland press, even those that were considered by many in town to be a complete failure. There were so many positive accolades, I found myself spending evenings discussing the phenomenon with friends in the industry. It just didn’t make sense…[he finally blogged about a bad experience at a well regarded restaurant and] after an equally bad experience at another restaurant, I wrote about it again, and this time started getting emails asking if I would do more. Those early reviews morphed into the site you see today.”

Portland Happy Hours urbandrinks.com/happyhour/usa/or/portland

nicely done, thorough database of happy hour offerings, with good content on food

Portland Mercury portlandmercury.com/portland/FoundIt?search=restaurants

The search engine and reader reviews from the “alternative” free weekly paper, Portland Mercury (a sister publication to The Stranger in Seattle).

Stumptown Vegans stumptownvegans.com/

SV says: “Stumptown Vegans Restaurant Reviews are two Portland food bloggers’ opinions and adventures with the vegan food they have encountered while eating out around our beautiful city. We know everyones’ tastes differ and things change in restaurants so visiting once, or twice, never paints the full picture of a place. We try to visit a place twice before letting you know about the food. We take photos to show you the food we’ve eaten to help you decide if you also want to visit.”

Table Talk Portland tabletalkportland.blogspot.com/

Vegetarian Survival Guide for Eugene OR efn.org/~goveg/index.html

Includes a “Top 10” restaurant list.

VSG says: “Go Veg is an informal amorphous generic grassroots group of people caring about the earth, our community and the well-being of animals. We are devoted to ending terrorism against innocent creatures of the non-human kind and promoting a compassionate healthy sustainable lifestyle, saving the earth one mouth at a time.”