pFriem family brewers at Milwaukie City Hall
pFriem Family Brewers opening new Portland-area taproom in historic Milwaukie City Hall
Mar 8 | Written By Ezra Johnson-Greenoughy | NewSchoolBeer.com
The secret is out, the brewery we teased in our most anticipated upcoming breweries and taprooms of 2024 article that is going into the old town Milwaukie City Hall is Hood River, Oregon’s pFriem Family Brewers. This is a significant expansion and meaningful transition for one of the pacific northwest’s most acclaimed and popular breweries, which has maintained a single public location at their Hood River homebase in the Columbia River Gorge up until now.
“As you know, we’ve always been very deliberate and quality oriented in everything we do, and in the past, that has forced us to make chose to prioritize our investments in brewing and our people and facilities in Hood River and Cascade Locks. We’ve had an eye on tasting room expansion for awhile now, and finally the stars aligned with a location, opportunity, timing that made it reality,” - pFriem brewmaster and co-owner Josh Pfriem. Full article here
June Bar - Beaverton
Beaverton’s New Vegan Bar Comes from the Creators of the Sudra, the Uncanny, and Victoria
by Waz Wu Updated Sep 18, 2023 | PDX Eater
At 1920s Art Deco style bar June, find kale pakoras, masala fries, botanical draft cocktails, and tropical creamsicles…
Months after opening tropical bar XO in the former Fremont-Mississippi Sudra space, the restaurateur joined forces with the creators of Victoria, Uncanny, and Lightning Bar Collective to open June — a cocktail bar with vegan snacks, craft drinks, and a 1920s Art Deco aesthetic in downtown Beaverton. The space was previously occupied by the Beaverton location of the Sudra, which closed in early April.
June’s powerhouse team includes Lightning Bar Collective’s John Janulis and Liam Duffy, who are behind quintessential Portland bars like Sweet Hereafter and Bye and Bye. Ben Hufford of Design Department and LBC lends his design expertise to renovate the sprawling Beaverton space. Meanwhile, Adam LeBeau, who is known for the bar programs at Victoria and Uncanny, developed an approachable drinks menu with spirit-based and nonalcoholic cocktails, to pair with Chandrasekaran’s drinking snacks.
main street commons in Hillsboro, Oregon
xo bar | Mississippi
Tanaka | wEST END
SCREEN DOOR | PEARL
Hillsboro sees summer revitalization with Main Street Commons
by: Michaela Bourgeois, Emily Burris, Ken Boddie Posted: Jul 24, 2023 / 10:23 AM PDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – As one of the fastest-growing communities in the metro area, Hillsboro is attracting more business development and opportunities for community members to gather.
The city is redeveloping a former U.S. Bank building — which closed during the pandemic — into Main Street Commons — which will include several local restaurant favorites such as Grand Central Bakery, Sizzle Pie and Backwoods Brewing.
16 Essential Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurants in Portland
by Waz Wu // Updated Sep 5, 2023 PDX Eater
The former Sudra space at Fremont-Mississippi is now a tropical oasis known as XO Bar.
A Tropical Vegan Bar With Southeast Asian Flavors Is Coming to North Portland
by Waz Wu Jul 12, 2023 | PDX Eater
XO Bar will open in the former Fremont-Mississippi Sudra space, serving whimsical cocktails, drinking snacks, and vacation vibes.
Inside Tanaka, the New Shokupan Sandwich Shop and Japanese Bakery in Downtown Portland
by Brooke Jackson-Glidden Jun 24, 2022 | PDX Eater
From the team behind ramen destination Afuri, Tanaka stacks house-baked shokupan with katsu-fried wagyu beef, builds pyramids of pistachio sponge cake with raspberry compote, and serves miso croissants with cinnamon lattes.
Colossally Popular Southern Staple Screen Door Will Open a Pearl District Restaurant
by Brooke Jackson-Glidden on Jan 2, 2020 | PDX Eater
Screen Door, arguably one of Portland’s most famous Southern restaurants, crosses the river next year. The restaurant will open a new spot for chicken and waffles, praline bacon, and fried oyster sandwiches in the summer of 2020.
Southeast Portland Brunch Staple Screen Door Is Opening a Second Location in the Pearl
By Matthew Singer on December 31, 2019 | Willamette Week
The new restaurant will have an expanded menu, longer hours, and serve their famous chicken-and-waffles all day.
scotch lodge
Scotch Lodge Is Portland Monthly’s Bar of the Year 2019
Posted 10.18.2019 on PDXMonthly.com by Ramona DeNies
Great bars breed comfort, familiarity, and personal rituals. At one, you always get the same boilermaker and tots, plug $5 worth of Beyoncé into the jukebox, and curl up with some rainy-day reading. Others, you’re there for the sublime sazerac, or maybe mead on tap.
But there are some bars—dare we say really great ones—where the comfort delivery system is unpredictability. Where your personal ritual might start with a prompt—let’s say scotch—but quickly strays from any playbook.
That’d be the advice, at least, of Tommy Klus at six-month-old Scotch Lodge, a dark-wood whiskey grotto tucked into the Central Eastside Industrial District space formerly occupied by ramen shop Biwa. READ MORE »
Scotch Lodge is Portland’s Best New Bar
Posted 7.24.19 on PDXMonthly.com by Karen Brooks
Scotch Lodge opened in May, transforming the Southeast spot once home to hipster izakaya Biwa into something completely different. A hop down a stairway and through lacy curtains now leads to a dark, dreamy drinking den possessed by scotch, bourbon, and other whiskies. READ MORE »
FIRST LOOK: SCOTCH LODGE, A SWANKY COCKTAIL CAVE FROM tOMMY KLUS
Posted 4.18.19 on PDXMonthly.com by Ramona DeNies
Unlike the Biwa space, which flooded with daytime natural light from its north- and east-facing street-level windows, Scotch Lodge is a dark, dreamy, drinking den: walnut paneling, peacock-green banquettes, a blue ceiling evoking deep water or night skies, and a heavy curtain walling off the bar proper from an entry stairwell papered in lush, cupped flowers. READ MORE »
PORTLAND WHISKEY MAVEN TOMMY KLUS WILL OPEN HIS SOUTHEAST COCKTAIL BAR IN MAY
Updated 4.18.19 on PDX.Eater.com by Alex Frane
“Biwa was a well-designed restaurant and left us great bones,” Klus says, so while the team plans on keeping the same layout as Biwa, they’ve also commissioned custom banquettes and furniture. “We’re going to plush it up a bit, make it more of a lounge,” he says, describing the aesthetic as a cozy, underwater space inspired by Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. READ MORE »
Scotch Lodge brings rare Scotch, modern French to Southeast Portland
Posted 11.28.18 | Updated 1.29.19 on Oregonlive.com by Michael Russell
Working with Ben Hufford from design firm Design Department, Klus envisions a room with lots of dark wood and copper surrounding a marble bar top, the walls painted a peacock palette of dark blues and greens. You might not notice it in the finished product, but the Jules Verne adventure classic "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea" and Captain Nemo's submarine library was an inspiration -- "only not in a steampunk way," Klus says. READ MORE »
PIZZA JERK
15 Essential pizzerias in Portland
Posted 10.1.19 on PDX.Eater.com by Brooke Jackson-Glidden and Alex Frane
Designed by the team behind Bunk Sandwiches, Pizza Jerk is earning a reputation as one of the nation's most exciting pizzerias for its creatively topped pies (think: pepperoni and pineapple) as well as its respectfully made classics, like a Connecticut clam pie. Add a family-friendly punk rocker atmosphere, classic checkerboard tablecloths, cocktails, beer, and an epic garden-side patio for 100, and it's a must-try for any Portlander. READ MORE »
Portland’s Got the Best Pizza in the Country, Says a New Book. Yeah. We Knew That.
PDX has been anointed the best pizza city in America. Here’s a reminder of why we agree.
By Karen Brooks, Kelly Clarke, Katherine Hamilton, Fiona McCann, Jordan Michelman, and Ben Tepler On July 8, 2021