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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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.

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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.

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Look at This Awesome Portland Trailblazers Schedule Release Video

Ćevapi (aka ćevapčići) from Two Brothers, featured in the 2024-25 Trailblazers schedule announcement.
Ćevapi (AKA ćevapčići), Sudzuka, Greek salad and more from Two Brothers, featured in the 2024-25 Portland Trailblazers schedule announcement

Thanks to Reddit, I was made aware of this video that in a very creative way announces the Portland Trailblazers 2024-25 schedule. I do not really follow basketball (I’m more of a baseball person, ngl), so I probably wouldn’t have paid much attention to this if is hadn’t been for its intersection with what this site is all about: Portland food and restaurants.

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