Restaurants Archives - Page 53 of 115

November 14, 2024December 7, 2024

Domingo’s Will Open in the Old Pollo Norte Space in Portland

Celebrating their new location on NE Glisan.

This is news I’ve been meaning to write about since early November: Domingo’s, a new restaurant from the Santo Domingo Taqueria folks, is arriving on NE Glisan in the space previously occupied by Pollo Norte.

November 13, 2024November 13, 2024

Updates To Off-Site Odor Impacts Regulations in Portland

Available dishes from Pho Gabo. — What you might have been able to eat at Phở Gabo before they closed.

This morning the Portland City Council addressed the issue of odors in Portland—the off-site odor impacts regulations, and how to change them to work better for businesses in this city. This process started in March 2024 and the code changes were passed today, November 13, by Carmen Rubio, Dan Ryan, Rene Gonzalez, and Ted Wheeler; Mingus Mapps was absent. This all started with the situation earlier this year regarding Phở Gabo.

November 11, 2024January 1, 2026

3 Doors Down Cafe Has Closed in Portland

The dining room at 3 Doors Down Cafe. — Photo credit: 3 Doors Down Cafe.

In the words of the band that shares the same name, “I’m here without you, baby, but you’re still on my lonely mind”: the 3 Doors Down Cafe has closed. Active since the 1990s, this is another instance of “old Portland” leaving—and yet another restaurant closure in these strange economic times.

November 7, 2024December 7, 2024

Portland’s East Side Dining Guide Is Here

Poc-chuc at Ki'ikibaa, which you can find in the East Side Dining Guide. — Poc-chuc at Ki’ikibaa, which is included in the East Side Dining Guide.

I’m happy to write here about the East Side Dining Guide (full disclosure: I work on the committee that has put the East Side Dining Guide together). A project of the 82nd Avenue Business Association, it’s a guide and map that focuses on the restaurants, bars, cafes, and food carts along 82nd Avenue: from Cully in the north to Brentwood-Darlington in the south.

November 6, 2024December 7, 2024

Broadway Pizza Shoppe Will Open on NE 15th Avenue in Portland

Pepperoni pizza slices. — You’ll find slices at Broadway Pizza Shoppe. Photo of slices in our stock library.

A new pizzeria is coming to northeast Portland: Broadway Pizza Shoppe. They will be located in the old Benditos Latin Fusion space on NE 15th Avenue, which opened April 17 of this year. Previously, and for a number of years, it was home to Blossoming Lotus, which closed just a couple weeks earlier on April 3.