It’s another jam-packed edition of Portland food news—we’ve got two new pizza places (Cafe Olli and a new Pizza Jerk location), a new restaurant owned by a Seattle Seahawks player, and the second coming of the Woodsman Tavern. Plus, the cocktail bar Botanist and the food cart ThiccBoi say farewell, and the vegan barbecue joint Homegrown Smoker is up for sale. Read on for all of that and more essential updates. For more ideas, check out our food and drink guide.
NEW OPENINGS AND RETURNS
Beastro by Marshawn Lynch
Seattle Seahawks player Marshawn Lynch, known by his nickname “Beast Mode,” opened this new Hawaiian-Korean restaurant along with Jun Park of Musashi and Kevin Yamada of Kama’aina Comfort Foods of Hawaii inside Hotel Vance in late November. (The restaurant was originally set to be called Beast, but appears to have been changed in order to avoid conflicting with James Beard Award-winning chef Naomi Pomeroy’s iconic restaurant Beast, which closed to make way for her market Ripe Cooperative and which Pomeroy has expressed she hopes to reopen at some point. But let’s be honest, “Beastro” is pretty good too.)
Downtown
Pickup, dine-in
