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.
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.
Continue reading “Bar Cala Is Coming to NE Alberta Street This Summer”
You’ve heard of Dumpling Week, Pizza Week, Burger Week and all the others—now get ready for Salad Week! From June 6 to 10, Bridgetown Bites will spend that week celebrating the salad in Portland—and our fair city is chock full of great ones. During Salad Week, I’ll also be joined here by my friend and colleague Judith, who also loves salad and Portland’s great food world.
We’d also love to hear from you about your favorite salads in the area. Fill out this form, and we’ll share some of your responses during Salad Week.
So stay tuned—we can’t wait to share our love of PDX salad with you!
Salad Week
Monday, June 6 to Friday, June 10, 2022
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Plants, vegan baked goods, and cats. Tomorrow, Saturday, May 7, is the House of Dreams’ 2022 Spring Plant Sale and Vegan Bake Sale. From 10am to 3pm, head out to get some indoor and outdoor plants, baked vegan yums (held as part of the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale), an good feelings knowing you are supporting a sale where all proceeds go to care for cats at the House of Dreams shelter. More details on Facebook. Should be a great event! 7634 SE Morrison Street, Portland
Kann update. Gregory Gourdet’s new restaurant, Kann, featuring Hatian food, will open this summer. PoMo has the details: “Kann will open mid-July at 548 SE Ash St, with 80 seats and an eight-foot hearth at the center of a wide-open kitchen that will occupy nearly half of the space.” Read more about it on the Portland Monthly website. 548 SE Ash Street, Portland
Current favorite dry drink. I made it over to Gabbiano’s recently and had their sparkly lemonade with an oregano syrup and a little salt. I loved it so much, I had two of them. Great fresh flavor and the oregano syrup adds something special. Truly delicious. 5411 NE 30th Avenue, Portland.
Daily Fuel opens brick & mortar restaurant. On their Instagram this week they announced their new restaurant: “We officially have the keys & finalized all legal paperwork today. We’ll be working on getting the restaurant ready for open in June for y’all!” They’ve had a cart at the Hawthorne Asylum pod, offering “healthy vegan comfort food” for a while; it will be fun to see what they do with the restaurant. Big congrats to them! 3342 SE Belmont Street, Portland
Image credit: Sebastiano’s
I love getting news from Sebastiano’s—which originally stole my heart with their fresh mozzarella when almost nobody was making it for retail consumption in Portland—and am happy to pass on this update on their Aperitivo program, now in its second year. After their Preview nights at the end of May (see below), the goal is to offer Apertivo every Friday and Saturday evening throughout the summer.
Continue reading “Welcome Back Aperitivo at Sebastiano’s”
New home to Locale. Photo credit: Google Maps
It looks like Locale, described in the Willamette Week as a bar that is “modeled after the day-drinksy coffee bars of Europe” is reopening. They’ll be over in the NW side of town this time around, not returning to their old location on N. Mississippi, where they closed up shop in July 2018.
Continue reading “Locale Bar Reopening in NW Portland”