Portland food news and views
A little while back I speculated that Nico Vergara, founder of Nico’s Ice Cream was opening a cantina in the old Dick’s Primal Burger space (which was home to Beeswing prior to that). Well, it’s become clear that the cantina is coming; but what was news to me is that Nico is opening a second ice cream location!
Continue reading “Nico’s to Open a Cantina, Second Ice Cream Location”Recently on the Nico’s Ice Cream Instagram, Nico posted a photo of himself in front of the old Dick’s Primal Burgers space at 4318 NE Cully Blvd, looking very happy and satisfied. The handle @nicoscantina was in there, too. So does that mean Nico is expanding his delicious ice cream empire to a delicious non-ice-cream restaurant/cantina?
That’s a good guess. The Nico’s Cantina Instagram says “A place to gather. Opening August 2022.” Sounds good to me—that space on Cully Blvd is great, with a lovely patio out back, and the neighborhood deserves to have something excellent in that space. I am confident Nico could bring that to Cully. We’ll keep an eye on it here and hopefully bring you more good news.
Photo credit: Khao Niew (Lao Street Food)
I learned today that Cully Central and its in-house restaurant Khao Niew (Lao Street Food) will be open for lunch every day starting May 1. This is great news! I’ve been a fan of their food for quite a while and this new development opens up my lunch options to something quite delicious.
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Upright Brewing’s Coffee Milk Stout, a collaboration with Junior’s Roasted Coffee, both of which will be at Upright Brewing’s Cully taproom later this year. Photo credit: Upright Brewing
This morning I reached out to Alex Ganum at Upright Brewing to get an update on what’s happening over at the Cully site (NE Prescott and 72nd Avenue). I and a number of neighbors have been curious about the progress at this location, and I really appreciate Alex for taking the time to share some details as to where they are in the process.
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Egg Bhurji, one of the sandwiches planned for the menu at Chaat Wallah’s cart coming to Cully. Photo credit: Chaat Wallah.
I was wandering around the internet this morning and landed on Chaat Wallah’s website. Chaat Wallah is a project from Deepak Saxena and the DesiPDX folks that serves “fun fusion reinterpretations of Indian street food.” In small type toward the bottom of the website is written “coming to Cully in 2022.” Of course my curiosity was piqued.
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