Portland food news and views
Portland! It’s where I live, work, and play. It’s where the food news happens (at least most of it). This category is one of the real constants on Bridgetown Bites and is probably a part of almost every post on this blog.
You’ve read this before on Bridgetown Bites, but this time it’s truly the end of the journey of this true Portland institution: The restaurant 3 Doors Down is closing again in our fair city. This longstanding cafe three doors north of SE Hawthorne that opened in the 1990s will shut its doors at the end of February. Owner Dave Marth sent out a press release last Friday with the closure announcement.
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ICYMI: Stumptown Fil said we’ll have six more weeks of winter. And that’s despite Feb 2 being the start of spring on the old calendar. Guess that means there’s more time to complete your Winter Soup Bingo card. Multiple locations
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Welcome to January 2026’s review of top 5 posts for the month—the first one of 2026. In January, the most visited articles were restaurant roundups and a couple of single restaurant news pieces.
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The former King Harvest Hummus space has new life in it: Case Study Coffee is opening their sixth location there.
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There’s a new Korean restaurant in the old Mokdong Gimbap space on SE Hawthorne: Corea K-Food. They’ve been open a few weeks now, according to the staff I spoke with, and it appears to be a different owner.
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