Psychic Bar News Today

In early February, Northeast Portland’s beloved Psychic Bar announced that it’d be closing its doors and ushering in a new team to take over. The space on Mississippi Avenue is now gearing up for the grand opening of The Uncanny bar, which deems itself as “just a weird little cocktail spot.” The Uncanny is the brainchild of Adam LeBeau, who also owns the Victoria Bar on North Albina Avenue.

The Uncanny will serve inventive cocktails and food from Euzumeh pop-up chef Tamara Hattar, all in the former Psychic bar space

Longtime institutions, food carts, and fledgling restaurants all shuttered this year, including Clyde Common, Sunshine Noodles, and Toffee Club.

Sunshine Noodles started out as a pop-up and grew into a Slabtown restaurant beloved for dishes like phnom penh noodles and lime pepper chicken wings.

From sandwiches to wings to quarter birds (no tenders allowed), here are PoMo’s picks.

Diane Lam’s contemporary Cambodian pop-up is taking over the former XLB Slabtown space. Get a sneak preview on Sunday.

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Lisa Nguyen, the owner of mochi doughnut pop-up Heyday, thought she’d beat the heat on Saturday, June 26, by prepping the day’s worth of doughnuts at 3 a.m. When she arrived at the kitchen at North Mississippi’s Psychic Bar, however, it was already 85 degrees inside the kitchen — hotter than the still-dark night outside. She had to keep the dough in the fridge, to keep it from over-proofing. “Our decorating station was easily 10 degrees hotter,” she says. “We were dying, and it wa...

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Red Robin’s ‘ghost kitchen,’ masquerading as separate restaurants, highlights fears over dine-in’s future Updated Mar 08, 2021; Posted Mar 07, 2021 Molly Jewkes thought she was supporting a new local Portland restaurant when she ordered from Chicken Sammys on Postmates last month. She was actually ordering from a "ghost kitchen" run by national chain Red Robin. Facebook Share Molly Jewkes came across a new restaurant prominently featured on Postmates while scrolling through the food d...