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Today's Oregonian features a favorable review of Olea restaurant in the Pearl District.

Reviewer David Sarasohn writes:

Service is admirable, helpful and engaging. The space is attractively designed with high-ceilinged stained-glass appointments and a copper still, but the lighting is too low to appreciate the surroundings. In a restaurant touch now as fashionable as butternut squash, diners huddle around table candles trying to make out the menu.

Olea follows its own direction, mostly within the western Mediterranean basin, and goes some interesting places -- as well as some dead ends. But it's usually a trip worth making. Just follow the sign of the horizontal pizza.

Nice to see Olea getting some fresh recognition... now we're craving their pizza!