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Back in February, I wrote that The Red Gate, a popular cafe in the Roseway neighborhood, closed for good, and that something else was coming in its place. That something is Fresh Love, a cafe, juice bar, and produce marketplace.
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An Astiana tomato. Photo credit: Rubinette Produce Market
I was reading GoodStuffNW this week and Katherine Bauer’s latest post was entitled “Farm Bulletin: A Farewell.” It is essentially an update from the farm in the form of a goodbye note from Ayers Creek Farm in Gaston, Ore. Anthony and Carol Boutard, who ran the farm for 24 years, has sold the property and they are moving on to new adventures.
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As I mentioned last week, here at Bridgetown Bites we are presenting Salad Week from June 6 to 10, 2022. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun and the more I write about the salads in Portland the more interesting they become to me. Salad is something with so much variety—it’s not just a side dish of lettuce, tomato, and cucumber (though that still sounds tasty; my younger self would have enjoyed some Marie Callender’s Thousand Island dressing on it, too). It’s any mix of veg, fruit, meat, fish, dairy, nuts, grains and probably other things I’m unaware of. Seriously, the options are plenty.
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I’m in the Hollywood District regularly and have been keeping my eye on the rebuilding of the Reo’s Ribs space, which has had the “opening soon” signs up all over it for months. Well, their Facebook page woke up this past weekend and posted “Opening soon…… 
REO’S RIBS WEBSITE NOW LIVE” with a new menu.
Bar Cala, a “Latin inspired Bar and Kitchen,” will open on NE Alberta and 27th Avenue. Projected opening is summer 2022. This is the original location of the former Pacific Power & Light substation, a historic building on the National Register of Historic Places. It was also the former location of Station Pizza Pub, which closed in February 2020.
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