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The 10 Portland restaurant closures that hurt the most in 2020 Updated Feb 26, 2021; Posted Dec 21, 2020 Le Bistro Montage, the Cajun/Creole restaurant which served generations of prom dates and other late-night revelers for nearly three decades from its shadowy location under the Morrison Bridge, was a Portland institution. It officially closed in June. Facebook Share Do you remember where you were nine months ago? I do. On March 13, nine months ago as of this writing, I was out for dinner at a new restaurant, and it was packed. At the time, that wasn’t exactly a rarity. The most obvious...

Ping reborn: Pok Pok’s beloved izakaya spinoff returns Updated Dec 22, 2020; Posted Dec 17, 2020 Ping closed at the end of 2012 for a planned expansion and rebrand. It never reopened.LC- The Oregonian Facebook Share Amid the restaurant carnage of 2020, it can be hard to remember a time when restaurants shut for reasons beyond a raging pandemic. Yet that was the case with Ping, which closed for good at the end of 2012. Though never the smash hit of sister restaurant Pok Pok, Ping was a cult favorite, earning a GQ Best New Restaurant nod, The Oregonian’s Rising Star award in 2009 and eno...