Goodbye Bar Avignon

Bar Avignon is closing for good on December 31stSad news today from Bar Avignon. Here is the announcement from their newsletter -Dear Everyone, Bar Avignon is closing. After over a decade of serving Portland from our little corner on Division, our last night of service will be this New Years Eve, December 31st.Over the years, many people have worked … [Read more...] about Goodbye Bar Avignon

Word on the street is that popular ramen chain Afuri is opening a store in Beaverton.According to my sources, the new Afuri restaurant is opening at the corner of SW 1st and Watson Avenue. This is just around the corner from Big's Chicken, and in the same building where Lionheart Coffee Co. opened this week. I went by the space yesterday and though it doesn't look like … [Read more...] about Afuri Restaurant Opening and Other Beaverton Notes

Pearl Bakery will end deliveries on December 10th.The announcement from their webpage: November 29, 2019To Our Valued Wholesale Customers,As Pearl Bakery approaches 23 years of daily baking and delivering hand crafted bread and pastry baked goods, we regret to inform you that Pearl Bakery will be closing. Although my family and I do not embrace “quitting”, we … [Read more...] about Pearl Bakery Closing for Good

After many months of waiting, 85°C, the international bakery has opened in Washington Square. The bakery is currently having a soft opening, but you'd never know it by the size of the crowds. Taiwan is taking over Washington Square Mall with the opening of Oregon's first 85°C Bakery Cafe, an international cafe that first opened in New Taipei in 2004. This joins the Taiwanese … [Read more...] about 85°C Bakery Cafe Opens in SW Portland

Another brewpub closing, this time it's Cider Riot! on NW Couch Street. Cider Riot! will be closing its pub and production facility at 807 NE Couch Street at the end of business on November 10th. We will be celebrating six years of amazing ciders with a retrospective of great cider and a punk and goth show on 9th November. The lineup includes Anti Sycotix, a Skeptix cover … [Read more...] about Cider Riot! Closing November 10th