Palomar
Palomar Aaron Lee

This week, the Mercury reported that Canopy, the city’s newest Hilton Hotel and restaurant program, is now serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinks in the Pearl. We reported that Movie Madness now has its own official beer thanks to the brewers at Ex Novo. We rounded up this town’s five best salad rolls and revisited the cocktail bar Palomar which seems to have dialed in its food menu. And this week we published our annual craft beer issue, so get thee to a newspaper box so you can enjoy it in all its newsprint splendor.

Portland Monthly reported that one of our city’s most accomplished chefs, Matt Lightner, has returned to the Rose City and has teamed up with New Seasons to offer a new Blue Apron-like meal kit for folks who don’t have time to cook but still want to eat things that are local and healthy.

Willamette Week reported that Portland’s much missed jazz club, Jimmy Mak’s, could reopen in the abandoned Oba space in the Pearl, and it published an essay by Mi Mero Mole owner Nick Zukin that tells the tale of how he once gladly paid the $5,000 it cost to reunite a Mexican immigrant worker with her 10-year-old daughter.

And because local and neighborhood newspapers still matter, y’all, the Hollywood Star News had the scoop that Jennifer Plitzko, who’s made sweets in Germany, Paris, and London before moving to Portland, is opening Heim Bakery and Cafe in the old Roseway Play Cafe out in the Roseway neighborhood.

Over at Eater, we learned that in August some old school Portlanders will try to recapture some of that Old Portland flavor when they open Blackheart, which’ll serve pancakes, eggs Sardou and pitchers of Bloody Marys till 2:30 in the morning; Ranch Pizza now has its own brick-and-mortar up in the Woodlawn neighborhood; and a wife-and-husband duo with Beast and Pok Pok street cred is aiming to open Sugarpine Drive-In, that’ll offer up waffle grilled cheese sandwiches and frosé slushies in the Columbia River Gorge.