There were more than 4 freakin' vegetarian restaurants in Portland by the year 2000. Quit trying to "tell the story of Portland" to the world. It's f-ing ruined because of this kind of propaganda. Here's the real story (source? me, because I grew up there): A lot of vegetarians, vegans, etc. moved to Portland in the 90s because it had a reputation among people who knew about that kind of thing as being a good place to live if you want to be vegan or vegetarian. Then the real estate bubble happened, neighborhoods got gentrified, people cashed in, etc. Then bacon happened (if you lived there, you know what I'm talking about, and it was f-ing offensive). At the same time people were putting bacon on everything, all the Coachella festival-type fashion douches moved to Portland. Then Portlandia happened, and it got even worse because people read it like it was an adorable lifestyle advertisement rather than the light satire it actually was. Real estate predators got even more aggressive, rents skyrocketed, jobs stayed stagnant, Portland got more fake. I've got nothing against Food Fight, but I'd rather shop at a regular grocery store and buy raw foods & raw ingredients and make my own food rather than buy pre-made baking mixes. More power to them if they want to sell vegan marshmallows, and whatever other stuff they have, of course. If you could give me a time machine and bring back the Daily Grind, Old Wives' Tales when it was still good, Paradox before they got kind of creepy, Dogs Dig Deli, and all the other awesome places that got shoved out of or transformed into the "new Portland", then that would be great, but that isn't going to happen. I'll stop ranting now because I'm a little bummed, and I've moved on, anyway.