eat.shop.portland. [Paperback]

Kaie Wellman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2003

eat.shop.portland. is a guide to the most interesting eating, drinking and shopping in Portland, Oregon USA. A unique square shape and flip-book format (one side is eat, flip it over and it's shop.), this guide shows a Portland that is rich with spectacular dining and buying oppurtunities. Each of the 76 businesses profiled has a spread with color photographs; address, phone number, website and hours; featured items and a descriptive paragraph. The book also has detailed maps with indicators of the profiled businesses.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"What makes these . . . guides stand out is their outstanding and wide-ranging collection of shops and restaurants."  —The Boston Globe, on eat.shop guides

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

"As appealing to read as they are informative."  —Portland Tribune, on eat.shop guides

"The eat.shop guides are nearly biblical in their coverage of where to go and what to do."  —papierdoll.com

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About the Author

Kaie Wellman compiled, wrote, photographed and designed eat.shop.portland. A 5th generation Oregonian, Ms. Wellman not only knows her way around her birthplace, Portland...but she shows the town from a unique perspective. Trained at Parsons School of Design in NYC, Ms. Wellman has designed everything from album covers for Motown Records to invitations in tuna cans for PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art). Her writing career began (and somewhat ended) with "Blah, Blah, Blah" a column she wrote with her best friend, Amy Faust, in a weekly Portland paper. Best known for her travel photographs, Ms. Wellman shoots with a designers eye, and is known for confounding locals all over the world with her love of shooting things like garbage cans, candy wrappers and trampled leaves.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Cabazon Books (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974732508
• ISBN-13: 978-0974732503
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,674,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Go-To Guide Book, December 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: eat.shop.portland. (Paperback)

eat.shop.portland is a true treasure trove of what Portland has to offer. If you're looking for authentic portland-style restaurants and shops, this is the book to own. I've been here seven years and there are places in it I have never heard of ... but can't wait to try. In my opinion every Portlander should have a copy of eat.shop.portland with them at all times.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best guide to the real Portland, December 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: eat.shop.portland. (Paperback)

Guides to city restaurants and shops are a dime a dozen. How many Web sites were propped up in the late 1990s, purportedly to answer just this simple question: where is a good place to eat/shop? About a trillion dollars worth. And yet, in 2004, the answers are not to be found online but instead in this simple, elegant guide, eat.shop.portland. Not only can you read this purse-sized treasure from cover to cover (like a day and night on the town!), you can trust it as a barometer of cool. Unlike some travel writer's 12-hour synopsis of a town that they just parachuted in on, Wellman dishes out a hip-yet sensible guide to the real Portland that is as well-designed as it is well-written.

eat.shop.portland should be required reading for anyone about to entertain guests from out-of-town or in from the suburbs.