eat.shop portland: The Indispensable Guide to Inspired, Locally Owned Eating and Shopping Establishments (eat.shop guides) [Paperback]

Kaie Wellman (Author), Jon Hart (Author)

Book Description

Series: eat.shop guides | Publication Date: October 1, 2008

Sleekly designed and focusing exclusively on locally owned restaurants and stores, these modern city-guides are unique in both form and content. Each featured business is hand-picked by the author to represent the crème de la crème of cities beloved by both locals and tourists. The overall selection presents a fresh and unexpected look at each city, highlighting an exciting array of neighborhoods. The convenient size is ideal for bags and purses, while the eye-popping layouts of luscious photographs, efficient maps, and brief hotel recommendations will help make planning an excursion almost as fun as eating and shopping.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A new kind of city guide--one loaded with photos and graphics . . . the antithesis of the kitchen-sink variety of travel books." --"Chicago" magazine

About the Author

Kaie Wellman is the founder of Cabazon Books, the publisher of the eat.shop guides series. She is the author of eat.shop.austin, eat.shop.los angeles, eat.shop.nyc, eat.shop.seattle, and eat.shop.san francisco and an award-winning graphic designer. Jon Hart is the owner of Jon's Awesome Business, an artist management company. He is the author of eat.shop paris and eat.shop sf bay area. They both live in Portland, Oregon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Cabazon Books; 5th Revised edition edition (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979955750
• ISBN-13: 978-0979955754
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,404,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars cute series of local destinations, August 20, 2009

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mamallama8 - See all my reviews

This review is from: eat.shop portland: The Indispensable Guide to Inspired, Locally Owned Eating and Shopping Establishments (eat.shop guides) (Paperback)

Instead of searching the internet for more up to date recommendations on local eateries and shopping and wondering if the recommendations are accurate, this book is an excellent alternative! Half the books contains one page restaurant reviews, half contains one page shopping reviews; all of the destinations are local favorites. The reviews are cute and funny...usually one paragraph. The different editions of this book have different sets of reviews, so older books will contain different names of restaurants and shops. The preface said they did not repeat places in more up to date editions, but you can look online to get the comprehensive lists of all of the places they have recommended.

The book doesn't otherwise give much information about travel in Portland, but it would be an excellent addition to a general guidebook, like Fodor's or Frommers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this book is a must, March 16, 2010

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F. Fuller "FF" (SEATTLE, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eat.shop portland: The Indispensable Guide to Inspired, Locally Owned Eating and Shopping Establishments (eat.shop guides) (Paperback)

Well being from Vashon Island, off of Seattle, we must say this book is a must! We LOVE Portland, and visit as often as possible....just by chance we found this book.
We spent four days running around visiting as many places as possible,(from the book) and had an absolutely incredible time. Finding just about all of them, the only negative aspect of the book, it needs a better map system.....you will still need a good map to find out where you are and where you are going, otherwise no complaints at all. She could put a fold out map in the book and have it made. The restaurants were still delightful and the folks who own these spots were terrific. Another great point is NO advertising! She sussed out these places and wrote about them, period! I can say that over all the many years I've been to Portland, this book in hand made it one of the best ever.....we even bought the book on Seattle, just to find something new and original in our own home town, Portland still beats Seattle by a long shot! But hey, it's all a matter of opinion, right?!