Pronto Gelato will serve grapefruit Campari sorbetto and Oregon hazelnut gelato in Northeast Portland Almost 20 years ago, while coffee roaster Andrea Spella was opening his original eponymous espresso cart, the Spella Caffè owner encountered a sorbetto that would become something of an old friend. He was trying to find gelatos for his affogato service, and he stumbled upon Stella Gelato while at a Market of Choice in 2006. “The grapefruit-Campari sorbetto won me over,” he says. Thus, he started serving Stella gelato affogato at his original cart, with a range of flavors: stracciatella, hazel ..read more

Pho Gabo’s owner Eddie Dong is taking his case to court. | Pho Gabo Eddie Dong, owner of Pho Gabo, is suing the city for “selective and disproportionate enforcement of city codes” It wasn’t long ago that Portland officials cited Eddie Dong’s restaurant for “continuous, frequent, or repetitive odors”, which directly contributed to the business’s closure. Though the city has said it is retooling its process to avoid biased decision-making in the future, the Willamette Weekly obtained files indicating that Dong plans to sue the city. Julie Parrish, a lawyer for Kell, Alterman & Runstein LLP ..read more

Workers Tap Death & Co.’s recent union drive could have made history. But the failed effort underscores the challenges that come with unionizing bar staff, even as restaurants, cafés and hotels see an uptick in labor organizing. https://punchdrink.com/articles/bars-unionization-death-co ..read more

Madilyn Gibbons. | Nichole Musico Olympia Provisions alumna Madilyn Gibbons is rolling, boiling, and baking bagels for delivery and farmers markets, with the hopes of opening an old-school bagel shop in the suburb Madilyn Gibbons’ passion for bagelmaking was born from a craving. Gibbons lives in Milwaukie, the southern suburb between Lake Oswego and Happy Valley; currently, there are very few options for house-made bagels in Milwaukie, if any. So, the Portland food industry vet started making her own. “It just came from the motivation of wanting a good bagel and not having one,” she says. “The ..read more

A selection of barbecue from Bark City. | Brooke Jackson-Glidden / Eater Portland In addition to its Texas-style smoked brisket and Carolina pulled pork, Bark City will offer a wider range of regional specialties and fun sandwiches, like Memphis barbecue spaghetti and a play on a McRib In 2022, pitmaster Michael Keskin closed his Eater Award-winning Portland barbecue cart, Bark City, and moved to Flagstaff, Arizona with his family. His intent, at the time, was to start serving barbecue in Arizona; when he hit a few speed bumps in the reopening process, he focused on recipe development, experim ..read more

Trevor Thorpe at the High Ground. | Jeff Iding The High Ground comes from the team behind XO Bar, with a forthcoming rooftop bar for summery agave drinks Smoked and braised cochinita pibil, chocolate mole cake, and orange blossom margaritas have arrived at a new Mexican cocktail bar in Hillsboro. The High Ground, from Portland restaurateur Sanjay Chandrasekaran and chef Bryan Veal, opened this March, and will soon start serving slushies and sangria on a rooftop patio. Chandrasekaran, known for his Indian-Southwestern restaurant the Sudra, generally specializes in vegan spots: He started his ca ..read more

A tea set served at Bardo. | Ian Allen Tea curator Ravi Kroesen and mindfulness teacher Veronika Vogler serve single-origin teas with extensive notes on the terroir and growers, or as an accompaniment to a morning meditation On Saturday mornings, Veronika Vogler stands at the entrance to Bardo Tea on Killingsworth and greets her visitors. They take off their shoes and hang up their coats, working their way to a room toward the back of the teahouse. A ring of meditation cushions surrounds a station with three small teapots, plus glossy ceramic vessels bumpy with the thumbprints of their potter ..read more

The popular TikTok mother-son duo share their favorite restaurants in Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, and more Almost every video Ed Kim posts on TikTok begins one way: a smiling image of his mother, Jane Kim, sitting across from him at a restaurant, saying, “I’m so hungry!” The Kims are the people behind The Korean Mama, the Portland-based TikTok account with almost 700,000 followers and more than 24 million likes. Ed takes his mother to various restaurants in Portland, places like Gabbiano’s, Jinju, and Afuri, and films her reactions while they eat. Occasionally, she tries specific cuisines ..read more

The Sobrang Sarap food crawl is a delicious part of this year’s National Filipino Food Month. | Sobrang Sarap Sobrang Sarap, a self-guided food crawl, will feature 16 Filipino-owned food businesses A new food tour wants to highlight the sheer variety of Filipino fare across Oregon. Sobrang Sarap is a brand new tour of 16 Filipino food businesses in the Portland metro area, Beaverton, Gresham, and Troutdale. In an email, the three minds behind the project — marketing company ALIST owner Amanda Mailey, artist Beatriz Lugt, and Baon Kainan food cart co-owner Geri Leung — say the crawl will last a ..read more

A shellfish course from chef Ryley Eckersley. | Courtesy of Ryley Eckersley At Äniks, Quaintrelle alumnus Ryley Eckersley will serve food he hopes will feel unclassifiable, taking creative cues from Rothko and London graffiti Each year, when the first rain arrives after the cherry blossoms bloom, Portland’s streets and sidewalks become coated with little white and pink flowers, soggy and wilted petals like snow. It’s a phenomenon chef Ryley Eckersley, best known in Portland for his tenure at Quaintrelle, wants to evoke at his incoming restaurant, Äniks: He steeps a chawanmushi-style custard wi ..read more