NEW OPENINGS AND RETURNS
Bellpine
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The downtown Ritz-Carlton will debut this swanky new Pacific Northwest-influenced bar on its 20th floor on Halloween. Portugal-born executive chef Pedro Almeida leads the kitchen and is joined by Lauro Romero, the chef behind the acclaimed pop-up Clandestino.
Downtown
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Grana Pizza Napoletana
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Married couple Maya Setton and Chris Flanagan first learned about portafoglio, a type of portable folded pizza sold as a street food in Naples, while watching Rick Steves' Europe on TV early on in the pandemic. The concept inspired them to launch their own pop-up selling the specialty at the Vancouver Farmers Market and at the PSU farmers market. Last Saturday, they opened a brick-and-mortar specializing in portafoglio and Neapolitan pies in the former Pizzicato
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space on East Burnside Street.
Kerns
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Los Burros Supremos
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Industry vet Adán Fausto, who's worked for star chefs like Michael Mina and José Andrés and runs the local pop-ups Paradise Mariscos and Tacos Con Onda, launches this market offering regional burritos for pickup and delivery today. Choose from options like a Mission-style burrito, a breakfast burrito stuffed with crispy potatoes and charred poblano, and a bean and cheese burrito with Rancho Gordo rojo beans. Fausto also plans to open a seafood-centric Mexican restaurant called La Leñadora
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early next year.
Richmond
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Suki's II
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Southwest Portland's longtime karaoke destination Suki's
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opened a second location in the former space of the beloved sports bar Claudia's
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on October 19.
Hawthorne District
Dine-in
FUTURE OPENINGS
Don's Favorite Foods
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Don Salamone of Burger Stevens plans to open this festive Italian-American supper club later this fall.
Beaverton
CLOSURES
Du's Grill
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Bridgetown Bites reports that this beloved Korean teriyaki joint (which gets its own shoutout on rapper Aminé's track "Turf") has closed its westside location. Don't worry, though: its original NE Sandy Blvd location
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remains open.
Hillsboro
POP-UPS AND EVENTS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28
Halloween Vegan Night Market Portland
Past Event
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This annual event billing itself as the "largest vegan food festival in the Pacific Northwest" is back with a lineup of ghoulishly delicious plant-based fare for Halloween. Enjoy food, trick-or-treating, face painting, costume contests, tarot readings, tunes from DJ Retrobot, storytime, crafts, and a "potion station" with boozy and zero-proof beverages from Sarah Motter of Epif.
The Redd on Salmon, 3-10 pm
Killer Pumpkin Fest
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Don’t lose your head—Rogue’s Killer Pumpkin Fest is taking over its Eastside Pub this Saturday! Outside, you can smash pumpkins for charity, play carnival games, and explore a market of local vendors. Inside the haunted pub, take your pick of a variety of pumpkin beers and themed cocktails, enter or check out the costume contests, and shake your bones to live music from local bands Brites and Billy and the Ghouls. SHANNON LUBETICH
Rogue Eastside Pub & Pilot Brewery, 12-11 pm
Spooky High Tea
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The Sellwood sweets shop Holler Treats is taking over the high tea menu at Abigail Hall. Hoist your pinky aloft while daintily sipping tea and enjoying creepy-cute confections like mummy pear hand pies, pumpkin chip ice cream sandwiches, chocolate crackle cookies, and funfetti cakes amid autumnal decorations.
Abigail Hall
THROUGH OCTOBER 31
Black Lagoon Halloween Bar Pop-Up
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Break out your best goth finery: The "whimsical but moody" cocktail bar Dirty Pretty is hosting Black Lagoon, a ghostly Halloween-themed experience proclaimed "Canada's Best Pop-Up Bar" by Canada's 100 Best in 2022. The experience, dreamed up by bartenders Erin Hayes and Kelsey Ramage in New Orleans in 2019, features dungeon-esque decor and deliciously morbid libations like the "Hellfire Fizz" (Lot 40 Dark Oak Rye Whiskey with carrot, turmeric, fresh lemon, Lustau Amontillado, Greek yogurt, Bitter Queens Caribbean spice bitters, absinthe, and seltzer), the "Book of Blood" (a take on the classic margarita with Montelobos Mezcal, Giffard Pimente D’Espellette, fresh beet, fresh lime juice, miso falernum, and absinthe), and the "Death Rattle" (Lustau Brandy, Lustau Amontillado Sherry, pineapple and lime juice, spiced oat orgeat, saline, and Bitter Queens Caribbean spice bitters).
Dirty Pretty
THROUGH NOVEMBER 5
"You're Dead to Me" Halloween Pop-Up Bar
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Rogue Ales and Spirits is the mastermind behind this spine-chilling Halloween pop-up at Dead Guy Bar, featuring 13 petrifying potables like "The Cujo" (a riff on the classic New York Sour with Dead Guy Whiskey Cabernet Cask), "The Basic Dude" (a pumpkin spice take on the White Russian with Bayfront Vodka, coffee liqueur, and pumpkin spice cream), and the "Hell Fire" (smoky mezcal, grapefruit, and Rogue Farmhouse Absinthe). To eat, there's a food menu of sinister specials like the Nightmare Before Christmas-inspired "Oogie Boogie Burger," featuring guacamole, bacon, a black bun, and creepy olive eyes.
Dead Guy Bar
SPECIALS
Cafe Olli
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In a stroke of genius, the all-day cafe and bakery Cafe Olli has mashed up the croque monsieur with a Danish. The savory pastry features Olympia Provisions sweetheart ham, stone-ground mustard bechamel, two types of cheese, black pepper, and a cornichon garnish.
King
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Cheese & Crack
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Just in time for soup season, the snack shop has introduced its own house-made version of SpaghettiOs in a comforting tomato soup.
Kerns
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Canard
Treat yourself to a mango sticky rice sundae (mango Dole whip, coconut sticky rice pudding, and cashew crunch) or an apple cobbler sundae (gooey butter cake and cider caramel) at the Oregon City outpost of Gabriel Rucker and Andy Fortgang's ever-popular cafe and wine restaurant.
Oregon City
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