Dinner with Julia

Join us in celebrating Julia Child’s 100th birthday this year with a special dinner featuring her most famous dishes! Experience Julia’s food just like she would have made. We’re re-watching all her videos in anticipation! Here’s the link to Boeuf Borguignon, Bon Appetit!
Sauvie Island Center Barn Dance & BBQ!

Hi Friends! This July, Besaw’s is donating a percentage of dinner proceeds to Sauvie Island Center and their amazing educational programming (see our blog post about them here). We heard about this event they’re doing, and we can’t wait to go! Not only does the menu sound amazing (desserts by Saint Cupcake!), but we love [...]
Besaw’s Throws Back to the Roaring 1920s; Join us for Supper July 25th!

In this day of Food Network, Cooking Channel and the hundreds of fabulous restaurants available to us in our culinary-obsessed city, it’s easy to scoff at dishes like “Chicken a la King” or “Oysters Rockefeller.” They’ve been around so long, and seem so old fashioned in light of the many fads in food that have [...]
Ferments, Pickles and Savoring the Season, by Kate

As an avid listener of OPB on the morning commute, I was super excited to learn about last month’s annual Portland Fermentation Festival, held Thursday, October 20th at Ecotrust’s Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center in the Pearl. In my salivating anticipation of all things pickled and brined, I left the workhouse early and invited a [...]
