Category: Portland

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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.

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Galette des Rois in Portland

Photo credit: La Provence/Petite Provence

It’s almost Epiphany (January 6 on the Gregorian calendar), and that means king cake time … but more specifically for the purposes of this post, Galette des Rois time. Yes, “galette des rois” means “king cake” too, but this is different from the yeasted, multicolored cake made popular in New Orleans, as well as the Rosca de Reyes cake popular in Mexican culture—this cake is far simpler, and delicious in its own way. And La Provence/Petite Provence is where you can find it in Portland this year.

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First Tastes: Pumpkin Spiced Bread at Tabor Tavern

A truly excellent dessert at Tabor Tavern.

On New Year’s Eve, my household has established a tradition of eating at Tabor Tavern, a gastropub on E Burnside in the North Tabor neighborhood. It’s an extension of our previous tradition of eating at one of our favorite gastropubs in Queens, Sweet Afton. After a meal at Tabor Tavern that featured one of their excellent burgers and fries with an addictive malt vinegar aioli, we got this dessert, Pumpkin Spiced Bread, which is one of the best things I ate in 2021.

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Top Posts on Bridgetown Bites in 2021

I took a look at the posts that got the most traffic this year and found an unexpected mix of results. Many of the posts were written this year, but a couple of oldies made it in. Here are the top 10 posts from the year, with accompanying updates and thoughts.

10. Farewell Heim, Hello Bee’s Cakes and Cafe. Bee, AKA, Rebecca Powazek-Anderson, has been making custom cakes and throwing pop-ups in this space at the intersection of NE Sandy Blvd and Fremont Street. She has indicated that the cafe part “is set to open January.” We’ll bring you more details when they become available.

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Assembling the End of the Story for Beeswing

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I miss Beeswing’s Cully porch and their delicious dutch baby, among other things. Sadly, I never made it to their Sellwood location (thanks, COVID).

One story I found popping into my brain from time to time this past year was about Beeswing, the formerly boss brunch spot in Cully that closed down and moved to Sellwood in 2019 (opening February 1, 2020). I’ve been wondering what happened to them, so I did a bunch of internet research and came up with what seems like a sotto voce ending to the story.

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Taiki Nakajima of Tokyo Sando Featured on Munchies

I only recently came across this great video produced by Munchies (the food vertical for Vice) featuring Taiki Nakajima, the person behind Portland’s beloved Tokyo Sando food truck fame. He has had a lot of interesting experiences around the world, loves making Japanese-style sandwiches, and opened his truck in Portland because he feels the city values small businesses.

He also has hosted a number of pop-ups at his truck, but it closed until 2022 because of some things he needs to take care of in Japan.

“I want to make people happy—that’s why I’m making sandwiches.”