Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. It Was an Apocalyptic Year for Portland Food. Here Are 12 Things That Didn’t Suck. The devastation was the headline from March on. But even among the carnage, there was still culinary joy to be found. Ankeny Promenade. (Wesley Lapointe) Updated December 23, 2020 Nobody needs to be reminded what a shit year it was for Portland's food scene. Empires toppled, neighborhood hangouts shuttered, thousands lost work. And it's still not over. The devastation was the headline from March on. But even among the carnage, there was still culinary joy to be found, primarily in the scrappiness of the city's restaurateurs who adapted, pivoted and innovated on the fly to make what they could out of this rotted