Right of the Fork

Out host Chris Angelus takes us on a culinary journey from Astoria to Yachats with his favorite spots to eat, along with a couple of other places to see and go. Chris has over 10 years of experiences to share with listeners. If you're heading the the northernmost 180 miles of Oregon Coast, this episode is a must! Places we cover in this episode include: Right at the Fork is supported by: Zupan's Markets: www.Zupans.com Oregon Dungeness Crab: www.OregonDungeness.org RingSide...

We speak with Ben Edmunds - Brewmaster at Breakside Brewery in Portland - where he oversees the company's production brewery and two pub breweries. We talk about his background, growin up in the mid-west, to what ultimatley inspired him to change careers as a high school teacher and go into brewing. Under Ben's guidance, Breakside has won many medals at national and international competitions - including 8 World Beer Cup Awards. Hear the behind the scenes decision making moments that...

Our second guest ever, and return guest, joins us again for our Where Are They Now? series. The former owner of Mi Mero Mole, Zapapizza, Kenny and Zuke's, as well as the curator of one of the original Portland food blogs, joins us to talk about his in depth research into regional Barbacoa in Mexico and the families who have the passion for it, on his way to publishing a book down the road. Nick also expresses what his motivations would be to give another restaurant a go. We will hear about...

We're back with a classic episode of Right at the Fork, from November 2021, featuring Anthony Cafiero of Meta Pizza, when we were still trying to figure out the best way to do a podcast from our homes. Right at the Fork is supported by: Zupan's Markets: www.Zupans.com Oregon Dungeness Crab: www.OregonDungeness.org RingSide Steakhouse: www.RingSideSteakhouse.com Portland Food Adventures: www.PortlandFoodAdventures.com It's always a great conversation with Anthony Cafiero, who has a...

Right at the Fork is supported by: Zupan's Markets: www.Zupans.com Oregon Dungeness Crab: www.OregonDungeness.org RingSide Steakhouse: www.RingSideSteakhouse.com Portland Food Adventures: www.PortlandFoodAdventures.com It’s been 20 years since Carman returned to her 90-year-old family ranch, transforming the land and business with regenerative practices. Inspiring her collective of nine independent farms and ranches across the Pacific Northwest, Carman Ranch have now been practicing...

We celebrate the opening of Oregon Dungeness Crab season with a visit with the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission's Executive Director, Tim Novotny. We will talk about what makes dungeness crab so beloved, what some of the challenges are for commercial crab fishermen, good years, bad years, some of Tim's favorite crab dishes and more. About Tim: Tim Novotny joined the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission in 2017 as communications manager, with a master’s degree in public relations and more than...

We catch up with Eric Finley again in the second of our Where Are They Now series. Eric owned Chop Butchery during his Portland years, which ended in 2018. Eric was previously featured on our podcast in 2014, episode #18. Eric talks about his reasons for leaving Portland and the journey that landed him and his family in Bentonville, Arkansas. We also talk about what saved his life, his sobriety, along with what he misses in Portland, and what he doesn't. We foray into a frank conversation...

Upon his Beard nomination for Best Chef NW last year, we were honored to have Jonathan Jones on our podcast. Now that the second JBF nom has come his way, and after moving his Salem restaurant's location, we thought it would be worthwhile to revisit our interview with Chef Jones from March of 2022. Jonathan Jones of Salem's Epilogue Kitchen and Cocktails makes his first podcast appearance with us just after his recent 2022 James Beard Foundation Best Chef Northwest nomination. He asked us...

Chef Lisa Schroeder of Mother's Bistro has had a very challenging few years. The most recent upset was when her bank wouldn't honor refunding the money on checks written to her bank account number under someone else's name, simply because she didn't report the problem soon enough. This comes on the heels of a tumultuous few years after 23 years in business In 2018, she went through the process of moving Mother's to its new location not long before the pandemic hit. Her location, in the...

Joel Gunderson comes by RATF to talk about his second venture with Chef Aaron Barnett, Heavenly Creatures. Joel talks how the pandemic has reshaped hospitality, and also resets Portland back to something that resembles the spirit of 2010, when he and Barnett opened Restaurant St. Jack. Joel reminisces about meeting Aaron while partying and how Aaron encouraged him to familiarize himself with wine so they could open a restaurant together in Portland. Joel has since uncorked wine programs at...

We start out 2023, Right at the Fork's 10th season streaming with in-depth interviews with the players in the Portland food scene, with a new series called "Where Are They Now?" Sarah Hart, formerly of Alma Chocolate, joins us this time as a seasoned Psychotherapist. She left the business when she sold Alma to Moonstruck Chocolate a few years back. Sarah was immersed in our food scene with her alluring chocolate shops and retail business, as well as being a fixture at the Portland Farmers...

Our most frequent guest Gary the Foodie joins us to round out a year where he hasn't traveled to other cities as much as he has historically, so we'll hear about his favorite Portland spots and what he's looking forward to going forward. We will discuss his objectivity toward his friends' restaurants, namely Gregory Gourdet's Kann and Ryan and Elena Roadhouse of Nodoguro. We move on to Gary's disinterest in traveling and the seemingly scuttled plans to move out of the Portland area. We'll...

We talk to Erik Hernandez, and his journey from Los Angeles and the Far East working on brands like K-Swiss and Adidas to Portland, where he connected with his wife, his former intern, at her Studio Noyes to develop a Portland-based footwear brand, Mise Footwear, geared toward chefs and those who work in kitchens. We hear Erik talk about how he started out contacting Portland chefs to get their feedback and trust as they began building the brand. After going into production during the...

Geoff Latham of Nicky USA, whose business keeps him in the heart of the Portland food world, talks about the insane tribulations of running a business in the Southeast Industrial District and how business neighbor Salt & Straw's Kim Malek's reasoned and public thoughts of moving the company's headquarters away from Portland finally sparked action from city leaders. Geoff will take us through what it feels like to worry about employee and family safety while paying taxes in a city that has...

Jacob & Sons' Noah Jacob joins us to take us through his journey that started as a filmmaker and director of documentaries in NYC, where he fell in love with the Jewish deli culture. After interning and experiencing some of the greats in New York, Jacob and his family moved west to California, where they started a catering business with large corporations as clients. The business was thriving, until the pandemic hit. Overnight, orders and events were canceled, and there was no...

Chris and Cort do something different for Black Friday, and bring you their suggest gifts for the holidays in 2022. Hear their list of great local items, tech ideas... nuts, socks and more! Suggestions from Chris included: www.zupans.comwww.RingSideSteakhouse.comwww.TheMeadow.comwww.tidbyt.comwww.viviennepdx.comwww.steelportknife.com Cort's...

Going all the way back to September... of this year! And our conversation with Mariah and Thomas Pisha-Duffly: On the heels of our discussion with @garythefoodie last week, when he suggested Mariah and Thomas Pisha-Duffly could be considered as part of the new guard of Portland's lauded restaurateurs, we invited the creative couple on the podcast to talk about how they got to where they are today. They share how they met in Boston's dive-bar world, travels to Indonesia, and how they...

Dan Hart, founder of Prost, Stammtisch, Interurban and The Bantam Tavern joins us to talk about how Portland's first food cart pod with a pub attached to it came to be, in addition to its expansion to Bend. We will talk about his bartending and love of skiing in his Eugene and California days, and how that led him to Portland. We'll also touch on his favorite spots to go in Portland, as we usually do. Listen in for a very nice list of Dan's suggestions, which begin with his places!! You'll...

Ron Khormaei doesn't sit still. From an early age when he left oppressive Iran for Switzerland and then Oregon, to his noteworthy academic pursuits in engineering, to navigating the corporate world to round out his skillsets. We talk to Ron about his journey to Oregon and his eventual stamping the best aspects of Portland into his cookware and knife products. There's a lot of food for thought in so much Ron says in this interview. Any entrepreneur or fellow Oregonian would appreciate...

Lyf Gildersleeve of Flying Fish Company joins is again to talk about his recent decision to move to Mexico in the interest of educating his children with a more well-rounded approach than schools in Portland could offer. We discuss the reasons for that decision, how he plans to operate Flying Fish while there, and the adventure that ensued on his drive down with his family. We will also talk about quality of life, cannabis use, and his fishing trip experiences. Full disclosure: Host...