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Birthday Adventures in Wine Country

September 11, 2014Filed in: Reviews, Travel

Well it is official. I have made it 30 years!

To celebrate my birthday (which was technically yesterday), my girlfriends surprised me with a day of adventures. Since I am a total planner and probably the most unspontaneous person ever, I don’t know if I can handle a true surprise. Knowing that, they gave me some details like that I needed to block off Saturday, September 6th, be ready to go at 10am and have a variety of clothing (“who knows what might happen?!”). I had a variety of ideas on what the surprise might be but I knew with 99.9% certainty that it would include both food and drinks. Obviously. Continue Reading...

Interview with Carrie Welch of Feast Portland

September 2, 2014Filed in: Events

Happy September everyone! Hope you had a fantastic Labor Day Weekend!

Last week, I was lucky enough to steal a few minutes of time from Carrie Welch, co-founder of Feast Portland to talk about this upcoming event.

Team Feast! From left: Emily Crowley, Mike Thelin and Carrie Welch. Photo Credit: Feast Portland

Carrie is really wonderful, incredibly hospitable and a total rock star when it comes to balancing work and life. She co-owns Little Green Pickle, a local PR firm with her wife Jannie Huang, has started this phenomenal food and wine festival Feast with Mike Thelin, has two little dogs, and just welcome a new baby boy to the mix. Clearly, she has a lot going on, so I was really excited she took some time to answer a few questions! Continue Reading...

One of America’s Top 10 Best New Restaurants: Maurice

August 21, 2014Filed in: Events, Reviews

A HUGE congratulations are going out to Kristen Murray, head pastry chef/owner of Maurice! Her adorable luncheonette in the West End was recently named as one of Bon Appétit‘s Hot 10 List. This list is comprised of the ten best new restaurants in the country!

The full list and an excerpt of the press release from Bon Appétit are included below for your perusal.

I absolutely love Maurice (check out my prior post to read more about it!) and think this award is so well deserved. The staff is warm and welcoming, the space is charming, and the food is gorgeous without being pretentious, and most importantly incredibly delicious and flawless in the execution. Continue Reading...