Synopses & Reviews
Sleekly designed and focusing exclusively on locally owned restaurants and stores, these modern city guidesformerly known as the eat.shop guidesare unique in both form and content. With the goal of supporting a culture and economy that value well-crafted experiences, they offer travelers and locals a colorful, compelling new lens for viewing a city. Each featured business is hand-picked by the author to represent the crème de la crème of cities beloved by both locals and tourists. By including only the most unique independent eating and shopping establishments, the books present 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 beautiful design, luscious photographs and personal observations work together to tell a vivid, distinctive story of a city.
Review
An Amazon review: "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?!"
Synopsis
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 handpicked 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. Establishments range from the sparkling new to deeply patinaed, unexpected to way-off-the-beaten-path, and funky to chic. 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.
About the Author
Jon Hart owns an artist management company. He is the author of eat.shop paris and eat.shop sf bay area and the coauthor of eat.shop kansas city, eat.shop miami, and eat.shop nyc. Kaie Wellman is an award-winning graphic designer and the founder of Cabazon Books, the publisher of the Rather guides series. She is the author of eat.shop austin and eat.shop seattle and the coauthor of eat.shop kansas city and eat.shop miami. They both live in Portland, Oregon.