Portland Archives - Bridgetown Bites

June 29, 2026June 28, 2026

Summer Supper From Urban Gleaners Is a Good Time for a Great Cause

Goi Cá at last year's Summer Supper. — One of my favorite dishes from last year’s Summer Summer was Goi Cá: turmeric catfish, mint, basil, scallion, greens, onion, apples, peanuts, fish sauce, and black sesame rice cracker, from Richard Văn Lê of After Ours/Matta/Mémoire Cà Phê.

Summer Supper returns to the Redd in September! This thoughtful tasting event features over a dozen talented and well-respected Portland chefs who will create dishes made from gleaned ingredients. It is also a way to celebrate Urban Gleaners’ 20th anniversary. Part of the mission behind Summer Supper is to fight food waste and food insecurity in our community, and this event is an excellent way to showcase that.

June 26, 2026June 26, 2026

Small Bites: Grits N’ Gravy, Farag’s, Sure Shot, and More

Breakfast at Grits and Gravy. — Breakfast at Grits N’ Gravy is no more. Photo credit: Grits N’ Gravy.

Grits N’ Gravy has closed. (Not to be confused with Gravy on N Mississippi.) This was a breakfast spot downtown next door to Souvlaki Queen. At first they thought they could do one more breakfast but they “have been given no leeway.” In their words, “Times have gotten hard and business has been declining since last August. We held on for as long as we could but we can’t keep going.”

June 25, 2026June 25, 2026

Learn To Make Cheese With Claudia Lucero’s Cheesecraft Club

Cheese, pehraps some you might make with the Cheesecraft Club. — Photo credit: Urban Cheesecraft.

Have you ever wanted to learn to make cheese? Do you feel like it’s maybe too difficult to do so? Portlander Claudia Lucero is here to help. She is launching Cheesecraft Club this summer to help you make cheese with ease.

June 24, 2026June 23, 2026

Massalia Books & Coffee Will Open on NE Glisan in Portland

Last month I wrote about a commercial conversion going on at a house on NE Glisan Street in the Kerns neighborhood. Through my research I had learned that the business intended for that space is called Massalia Books & Coffee. Shortly after publishing the piece, I was contacted by the person behind the project. I meet up with him and his daughter at Domingo’s to chat about it, and here is what I’ve learned.

June 23, 2026June 20, 2026

Thunderbird Will Open on N Mississippi Ave in Portland

Thunderbird Bar Coming Soon!! sign. — I spotted this sign on a walk while my laundry was drying.

Thunderbird, a bar from the Lighting Bar Collective, will open in the former space of The Uncanny, which closed in May 2026. I first caught wind of all this through their liquor license application, then not long after that I saw the sign above as I was walking around the N Mississippi commercial strip. Here is what we know.