Best food city in America is in NW (sorry, Seattle)

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Best food city in America is in NW (sorry, Seattle)</h1>
                <h2><p>Today, The Washington Post named Portland as the best food city in America. The Oregonian talked to the Post's restaurant critic, Tom Sietsema, who discussed not only the quality of Portland's restaurants, but also its grocers, ice cream makers, food trucks and creativity.

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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Today, The Washington Post named Portland as the best food city in America. <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/dining/index.ssf/2015/12/why_the_washington_post_named.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org#incart_river_home">The Oregonian talked</a> to the Post's restaurant critic, Tom Sietsema, who discussed not only the quality of Portland's restaurants, but also its grocers, ice cream makers, food trucks and creativity.</p><p>Sietsema said he is getting a lot of heat (he didn't call it whining) from one city: Seattle. It didn't make his Top 10, but if he had named a Top 12, Seattle might have made it. He figures it might be 11th best. Or 12th.  What, it's not creative enough to have a handful of the same famous chefs opening endless new versions of restaurants on every corner in the city?</p>
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Today, The Washington Post named Portland as the best food city in America. The Oregonian talked to the Post's restaurant critic, Tom Sietsema, who discussed not only the quality of Portland's restaurants, but also its grocers, ice cream makers, food trucks and creativity.

Sietsema said he is getting a lot of heat (he didn't call it whining) from one city: Seattle. It didn't make his Top 10, but if he had named a Top 12, Seattle might have made it. He figures it might be 11th best. Or 12th. What, it's not creative enough to have a handful of the same famous chefs opening endless new versions of restaurants on every corner in the city?

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi