Category: Top Five

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This is a fun post to create that shows me what readers especially like on the site each month.

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Top 5 Posts on Bridgetown Bites, February 2025

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Welcome to February 2025’s review of top posts for the month. Popular topics include restaurant openings, including the big Flock food hall. And dumplings! Dumpling Week always does well. (Because who doesn’t love dumplings?!?)

It was another good month on the site from a traffic standpoint, with 38,500 unique visitors who generated close to 52,000 page views. That’s an increase of about 24% and 20%, respectively.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by, read, shared, and commented on the articles here. And as always, big thanks to our tipsters who pass on tidbits that I can share with you.

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Top 5 Posts on Bridgetown Bites, January 2025

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Welcome to our first monthly summary in 2025 of top posts on Bridgetown Bites! As usual, it’s restaurant status heavy, but also our Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day roundups did well. The hope is these kinds of posts help you out when you are looking for things to do during those celebratory times.

To be honest, I was expecting the start of the year to be a little slower than last month, as January tends to be slow in a lot of sectors. So imagine my surprise to see the numbers had a nice bump since December: Close to 31,000 unique visitors generated 43,000 page views. That’s approximately a 9% and 11% increase, respectively.

Thanks for reading, sharing, commenting, and of course—sending tips. And Happy Year of the (Wood) Snake, everyone!

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Top 5 Posts on Bridgetown Bites, December 2024

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Welcome to the final monthly top 5 posts roundup of 2024. Popular posts were all about restaurant openings and closings, with the SE Division Dairy Queen garnering the most interest, by far. Tréla was also something people wanted to read about; it had been in process for years! Following it from an idea presented to the world to its opening was gratifying.

December was a busy month, and undoubtably the best month to date on Bridgetown Bites from a traffic standpoint: Over 28,300 unique visitors generated close to 39,000 page views. Compare that to November’s numbers of 22,600 and 30,000, respectively—25% and 30% increases. It was even more drastic an increase to compare the January to December numbers—140% and 144% increases in uniques and PV.

As always, thanks to you for reading, sharing, and commenting—and for your tips!

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Top 5 Posts on Bridgetown Bites, November 2024

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Welcome to another edition of our monthly top 5 posts list—November 2024 was another good month for Bridgetown Bites. Over 22,600 unique visitors generated almost 30,000 page views. Popular posts included our list of Thanksgiving resources at the top of the heap. Interestingly enough, our article on Fancy Baby was also in the top 5, along with a long-time restaurant closing, a far-future opening of a new public market, and some pizza.

As always, thanks to you for reading, sharing, and commenting—and for your tips!

5. Fancy Baby Will Bring “The Craziest Champagne List” to NW Portland

The logo for Fancy Baby, a wine and Japanese-inspired listening bar opening in Portland's Pearl District.

Thanks to a Bridgetown Bites tipster, I’ve learned that new wine and Japanese-inspired listening bar called Fancy Baby is going to open in the Pearl District. This location on NW Glisan used to be home to CULT, a store that sold art, collectibles, ephemera, and more. Update: They are now open.

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Top 5 Posts on Bridgetown Bites, October 2024

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I know I sound like a broken record, but it’s always interesting to see what the top 5 posts are the most-read in any given month. In October it was restaurant openings, the bread festival, and our list of Thanksgiving in Portland options (which has been updated multiple times with new places to get pies, turkey, and more).

Also In October we saw over 22,000 unique visitors who generated close to 29,000 page views. That’s an increase of 17% and 26%, respectively, from the previous month.

As always, thanks for reading, sharing, commenting, and for your tips. And I hope you cast your vote by 8pm today!

5. TAPTAP Cuisine Will Open a Restaurant on Sandy Blvd

Exterior of TAPTAP Cuisine.

Haitian food lovers, you have something to celebrate—TAPTAP Cuisine is opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant on NE Sandy Blvd. They operated on N WIlliams as a food truck with a nice (covered) outdoor seating area for many months, but now they have leveled up into a building where they can create, prepare, and offer their beautiful Haitian and Caribbean cuisine in NE Portland.

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