NEW OPENINGS AND RETURNS

Boba Milk Like Add to a List
After going on hiatus for the winter, this boba cafe on Southeast Division announced on Instagram this week that it will reopen its doors on Saturday.
Hosford-Abernethy
Pickup

The Sports Bra Like Add to a List
Chef-owner Jenny Nguyen opens this women-focused sports bar and restaurant with a name inspired by a long-standing joke between her and her friends today. The establishment will show women's sports, including Portland Thorns games and ATA Football matches, on the TVs and will highlight offerings from women-owned businesses on its menu, such as booze from Freeland Spirits Like Add to a List , beef from Carman Ranch, and produce from Vibrant Valley Farm. Nguyen's menu of classic pub grub features family recipes like "Mom's baby back ribs" and "Aunt Tina's Vietna-wings."
Sullivan's Gulch
Dine-in

Yui Like Add to a List
Good news for fans of Chalunthorn “Yui” Schaeffer's Thai restaurant Yui, which opened Like Add to a List in August 2020 and closed Like Add to a List last July: It reopens today, with Schaeffer’s mother (known affectionately as "Mama Ta") as the new head chef. Better yet, many of the restaurant's most popular dishes, including sakoo (peanut radish dumplings) and a creative take on pad kee mao using squid ink pasta, are making a comeback.
Concordia
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FUTURE OPENINGS

Doc Marie's Like Add to a List
Named for the early medical doctor Marie Equi, a pioneering labor and women's rights activist and lesbian who raised a child with her same-sex partner long before it was commonplace, this "lesbian bar for everyone" plans to open in the former Elvis Room Like Add to a List space on 203 SE Grand Avenue in May. It will be Portland's only dedicated lesbian bar.
Buckman

Rue Cler Like Add to a List
A little taste of France is coming to Portland: Former Sol Bowl owner Cindy Hymer plans to open this bar, bakery, restaurant, and grocery store, named for a famous market street in Paris, at 6716 SE Milwaukie Avenue in mid-to-late spring.
Sellwood

Tanaka Like Add to a List
The team behind Afuri plans to open this Japanese bakery specializing in milk bread and katsu sandwiches in the former Blue Star Donuts Like Add to a List space in downtown Portland in May.
Downtown

CLOSURES

Dig a Pony Like Add to a List
The beloved dance club/burger bar Dig A Pony will close its doors this June and will be taken over by : Elizabeth Elder and Bryan Wollen of Lose Yr Mind Fest and Devon and Tyler Treadwell of North Portland’s Tulip Shop Tavern. The Mercury's Jenni Moore has more details.
Buckman

Miami Nice Like Add to a List
This vegan spot specializing in "Miami and Cuban flavors so good, you'll swear it's bad" announced via Instagram this week that it is closing for good until it can find a new location. Owner Valerie "Val" Espinoza wrote, "It’s with a very heavy heart I have to say goodbye to you all for now. I will be searching high and low for a permanent home but until then please know it’s been an absolute honor to bring you a piece of my hometown! Thank you to all of you for making this little dream of mine a reality."
Kerns

Park Avenue Fine Wines Like Add to a List
This downtown wine bar and restaurant announced via its newsletter on Thursday that it will close permanently at the end of April.
Downtown

OTHER FOOD NEWS

Food Fight gets new owners
The longtime vegan grocer Food Fight Like Add to a List has been sold to new owners Beth and Adam Sullivan.

POP-UPS AND EVENTS

Gigantic Weirdtastic Series #1 - Unipiper Hazy IPA Release Party and Bottle Signing Like Add to a List
Be among the first to try Gigantic Brewing's new Unipiper Hazy IPA, which has "an intensely tropical hop aroma" and was brewed in collaboration with the local celebrity/bagpiper/Darth Vader-helmeted unicyclist himself.
Gigantic Brewing Company, Friday, 4-6 pm

Macaron and Wine Pairing Like Add to a List
Enjoy the sophisticated pairing of three delicate meringue-based French cookies from Mama's Artisan Sweets with five wines and one sangria.
Hip Chicks Do Wine, Friday-Sunday

Local Ocean Pop-Up Like Add to a List
Acclaimed chef Enrique Sanchez-Rodriguez will sling some of his signature seafood dishes, including black cod deviled eggs, teriyaki tuna kebabs, and moqueca de peixe, at Flying Fish’s Chef Shack cart.
Chef Shack, Saturday-Sunday, 1-8 pm

Powell's Books Presents: J. Kenji López-Alt with Bill Oakley Like Add to a List
Famed chef and food writer J. Kenji López-Alt will chat about his new book The Wok and the fundamentals of wok cooking with former Simpsons writer/showrunner (and notable fast food fan) Bill Oakley.
Powell's City of Books, April 8, 6-8 pm

SPECIALS

Doe Donuts Like Add to a List
The vegan donut shop's irresistible crop of April flavors includes a marionberry snickerdoodle fritter, blackberry shortcake old fashioned, banana split, cereal milk twist, savory veggie calzone, red velvet Krispie, passionfruit stuffed donut, "caramel Doe-lite" (chocolate glaze with toasted coconut and caramel drizzle), and ube biko (an ube glaze with caramel rice pudding and toasted coconut chips).
Hollywood District
Pickup, delivery

Maurice Like Add to a List
The French-Norwegian "pastry luncheonette" has introduced a new format with a seven-course prix-fixe menu for lunch and dinner, with dishes such as a parsnip and lion's mane mushroom tart and a rhubarb and celery leaf vacherin. Optional tea and wine pairings are also available.
Downtown
Dine-in

Salt & Straw
For their "Student Inventor" series, Salt & Straw teamed up with Scholastic last summer to ask kids to submit their most imaginative stories to prompt new ice cream flavors. The whimsical results, available in scoop shops and online beginning today: "Bottomless Limes" (a key lime cheesecake flavor with chocolate bark, inspired by a 12-year-old named Rae), "The Ice Cream of Moo" (a salted chocolate ice cream flavor with candied caramel cashews and hunks of maraschino cherry-laced chocolate ganache, inspired by a 10-year-old named Bridget), "Triple Tropic Twist (a raspberry sherbet with mango-pineapple jelly and citrus mousse, inspired by an 11-year-old named Cooper), "Rosie the Pink Flamingo" (a strawberry ice cream with gummy bears and pink sprinkles, inspired by a 6-year-old named Charlotte), and "The Adventurous Llamanaut" (a purple dark cherry ice cream with pink and blue marshmallow fluff, inspired by a 7-year old named Asher).
Nob Hill, Vernon, Lake Oswego, Richmond
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