What’s happening? Lots! Aviary just made its once-a-month lobster roll nights a weekly Wednesday night thing. The Willamette Valley’s Domaine Serene is throwing a “Harvest in the City” party next Saturday (October 27) to celebrate its new pinot noir release at its still newish downtown tasting room (and it’ll all be paired with braised brisket, courtesy of Imperial). And PoMo food critic Karen Brooks’ essay on the rise of Portland’s pizza scene will be featured in the Ruth Reichl-edited The Best Food Writing of 2018. Oh, and it’s last call for the Mercury’s Veg Week, so get out there and eat (healthily) today and tomorrow!

Onto what happened.

This week, the Mercury reported on the opening of Slabtown’s Queue Coffee, a new cafe concept that allows one development company the ability to fill its own unleased spaces by becoming its own tenant. The same day, we reported that Greenleaf Juice Company opened its sixth brick-and-mortar—a block away from Queue. And we reported that the owners of Clay’s Smokehouse have closed its doors after just eight months of being back in business. There is a silver lining, as they indicated that they’re looking for a new space to resurrected their smoked meats.

The Oregonian had good news and bad news this week. First, it reported that Portland has been named the best “foodie city” in the land by Wallet Hub. (What’s Wallet Hub?) The same entity (still not Googling it) also named Portland the second best vegetarian/vegan city in said same land after NYC. The bad news? The O reported that SE Belmont’s Accanto is closing on October 27 after a decade in business. And it reported that because of that hoax the libs call “climate change,” barley, the premiere beer ingredient, might dry up, which could mean the end of beer at worst, or beer with double the price tag at best. Cool. In lighter news, the paper just named its 10 best new bars of 2018, with the Cuban-inspired Palomar topping the list.

PoMo profiled Sarah Cabot, the somm-turned winemaker who produced 1.2 million bottles of vino for Costco, Whole Foods, and Landry’s—as a sober person.

Willamette Week shared its love of G Station, the mom-and-pop diner tucked into the Greyhound Station which the paper says might just be Portland’s best kept—and most inexpensive—secret.

Finally, Eater took a first look at Bhuna, the new Kashmiri soul food restaurant that opened on NW 21st this week. Also opening this week? A new Straight From New York Pizza counter on SE Hawthorne. And coming soon: Bullard chef Doug Adams is mashing up Portland, Texas, and the Czech Republic to put his own personal twist on the donutty Czech pasty called kolaches, which will be sold out of the upcoming Good Coffee space inside the Woodlark Hotel (which will also the future home of Bullard, which, after two years of delays, will open come December).