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The famed Southeast Portland restaurant on Division Street is reopening with new staff and corporate backing, and notably without its founding chef.

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In case you were too frazzled by the holidays or busy lamenting 2021’s restaurant closures, there was an end-of-the-year bright spot in our local food scene. The all-day, worker-owned Cafe Olli opened on December 9th. The restaurant is centered around the iconic brick oven that defined former occupant Ned Ludd, and is a promising step into the future for Portland’s restaurant landscape. Co-founders Ryan Dirks, Cami Wong, Daniel Green, and Taylor Manning all previously worked...

An all-day, worker-owned cafe is rising soon in the former Ned Ludd—everything handmade, major cakes included.

1. Arrosto Ever since the market opened, Ive been skulking around Arrostos bright-yellow window, waiting for the next entry in Portlands ongoing chicken craze. Finally, in mid-April, Arrosto arrived. Pastaworks co-owners Kaie Wellman and her husband Kevin de Garmo discovered their dream bird years ago vacationing on Italys Ligurian Coast. The three-plus pound, free-range, antibiotic-free chickens are smoked as they luxuriate in the rotisserie, the skin laced with lemon and rosemary oil. The res...

The restaurant and butcher shop promises farm-to-table meats like you’ve never seen them before. By Katherine Chew Hamilton 2/4/2021 at 5:00am Wallow & Root Farm specializes in hybrid heritage pigs. Simply mention heritage pigs to pig farmer Austin Piccone and you’ll get a run-down on trends in pig breeds over the last century, from Red Wattles to American Mulefoots. Bring up diverse livestock farming and you’ll get fun facts about how elephants’ feet create micro-ecosystems...