HOLIDAY SPECIALS
Kachka
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Bonnie and Israel Morales' celebrated Eastern European restaurant is going all out with a holiday feast, available both on the restaurant menu from September 24-26 or for pre-ordered pickup from September 24-25. The festive menu includes apples and honey, chicory salad, chopped chicken liver, short rib and carrot tsimmes with dumplings (or a vegetarian alternative with mushrooms in place of short ribs), lekach (honey cake) with fenugreek smetana mousse and pomegranate caramel, and pan-fried apple pie vareniki dumplings with honey, fenugreek créme anglaise, and cinnamon-cardamom sugar.
Buckman
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Leikam Brewing
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Portland's very own genuine kosher brewery has created a beer just for the occasion: Major Pom Pomegranate Blonde Ale, brewed in collaboration with the Seattle kosher bakery Muriel's All Day Eats. The brew, described as "a refreshing beer with a fruity and slightly tart profile melded with soft malt," is available in cans at the taproom for all your holiday needs.
Mt. Tabor
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Lepage Food & Drinks
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This small business is serving up a menu of matzo balls, turmeric-chili cauliflower, chicory and date salad, noodle kugel, pomegranate molasses chicken, round raisin challah, and honey cake topped with almonds. Order by Thursday, September 22.
Cully
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Sweet Lorraine's Latkes & More
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The popular cart serving New York-style Jewish cuisine is closed today (Thursday, September 22), but will be back open on Friday with some TBA Rosh Hashanah specials.
Humboldt
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Zupan's Market
The upscale grocer chain has a high holidays menu from the Jewish delicatessen Jacob & Son's
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, with favorites like chopped chicken liver, applesauce, gefilte fish, brisket, chicken marbella, tsimmes, sweet noodle kugel, crown raisin challah, chocolate baka, and more, available from September 23-27. 48 hours' notice is required for ordering.
Burnside, Macadam, Lake Oswego
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OTHER JEWISH FOOD
Ben & Esther's Vegan Jewish Deli
This popular Jewish deli serves a plant-based menu of bagels, latkes, knishes, noodle kugel, matzo ball soup, deli sandwiches, salads by the pound, and baked goods like babka, hamantaschen, and black and white cookies, with plenty of gluten-free options.
Vernon, Roseway
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The Challahman
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Enjoy the luxury of freshly baked kosher challah delivered directly to your door with this convenient local home delivery service. When you purchase the minimum order of two loaves of challah, they'll donate a third to the Holocaust Survivors Program of the Jewish Family & Child Service (which provides weekly Shabbat meals, in-home assistance, and other services for Holocast survivors in the Portland area) and to Kehillah House (independent affordable housing for adults with developmental disabilities).
Across Portland
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Kenny and Zuke's Delicatessen
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Fans love this deli for its bagels, house-made pastrami, and other Jewish comfort food.
Downtown
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Kornblatt's
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Mercury contributor Ben Coleman recommends this dependable East Coast-style deli for Jewish fare, writing, "Kornblatt’s has all the staples year-round, from latkes to liver to knishes, presented in a style that can best be described as 'deli standard.'"
Nob Hill
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