Kitchen Takeover: Join Olympia Oyster Bar chef Maylin Chavez in her “happy place”

Astoria’s newest restaurant will only be open for a few hours. Serving a menu that highlights local seafood, Olympia Oyster Bar will take over the upstairs restaurant at Fort George this Thursday. “To be able to cook in their space and use their wood-fired oven—I’m really excited!” said Maylin Chavez, owner/chef of Portland restaurant Olympia…
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It’s Fresh Hop Season

If the air seems a little bitty stickier, perhaps that’s because it is. Late summer is thick with the scent of lupulin oils. By early September the bines are packed around the Pacific Northwest, full of this year’s crop of hops. The great thing about brewing so close to those rich hop farms, Fort George…
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