Werner Beef & Brew might be the classiest convenience store where you’ll ever buy a pepperoni stick. Sure, it has the usual shelves stocked with bags of chips and coolers filled with soda bottles, but in that same space you’ll also find tap handles,...

If it’s an average day at F.H. Steinbart, you’ll likely find John DeBenedetti bent at the waist tidying containers filled with grain or reaching into the cooler to resupply the ingredients. While that might not sound significant, the longtime owner o...

Ricardo Antunez, who’s chef at one of Salem’s newest breweries, happily zigzags across the Americas without concern about borders in his kitchen. It’s a place where marinades from Mexico and Peru collide in a single dish. The innards of an empanada a...

When Scott Porter peered through a window looking into the room holding puppy playtime, he didn’t expect to see a man sleeping on the floor. At Tigard’s newest taphouse, customers are often on all fours alongside the adoptable animals that are eager...