Portland food news and views
The Burger King on NE Broadway during its better days. Photo credit: Google
For the longest time I’ve wondered what is up with the old Burger King building on NE Broadway. It has been fenced off for years and frankly, it’s kind of an eyesore. But I don’t have to wonder any longer—the site is going to become a food cart pod. Plus, for purposes of this post, there’s going to be a bonus food cart pod across the street.
Continue reading “Food Cart Pods Coming to NE Broadway in Grant Park”
The stunner of a stained glass window at Steeplejack.
Over the weekend I stopped in at Steeplejack for breakfast before taking care of some errands in the general area. I got a tip off their Instagram page, where they posted “we are slowly rolling out our breakfast program” and I found that hard to resist. I arrived around 8:30am on a Sunday and had a satisfying and tasty breakfast in a beautiful space.
Continue reading “First Tastes: Breakfast at Steeplejack”
I believe I first ran across the name The Nightwood Society randomly, but was truly introduced to them in a post by local blogger Pech on her blog, Pechluck’s Food Adventures. It’s a pretty exciting project—you could think of them as an “experience shop”—food and drink folks working with artists and creatives to “produce extraordinary experiences around food and wine” in a space on NE Broadway (former location of Chesa). And it’s run by women. Continue reading “Portland’s Nightwood Society’s Kickstarter – I Supported Them, You Should, Too”
