Rae’s Lakeview Lounge in Slabtown has either shut its own doors or someone else has closed them for them.
The restaurant, popular among Slabtown residents, occupied a small corner in a largely residential neighborhood at 1900 NW 27th. It was known for dinner/diner classics like burgers and beef stroganoff and for its weekend brunch where diners could score some pretty damn good biscuits and gravy.
We reached out to Todd Morey, who’s owned and operated the business with his wife Rae since 2012, but have yet to hear back. The restaurant’s website and Facebook pages have been scrubbed/deleted, which means currently it’s difficult to ascertain when or why the restaurant closed.
There’s a sign taped to Rae’s front entrance, which read “Restaurant Closed, Landlord in possession.” On the sign there’s the phone number of a local property management company called City Houses. We reached out to them as well, but have yet to hear back from the property manager managing that parcel of land.
We will update this story as more information becomes available.
Is Slabtown now going to be applied to the entirety of NW Portland outside of the “Alphabet District” because until a year or so ago, Slabtown was the name of a bar and nothing else.
Rae’s was located in the NW Industrial Area/Northwest Portland and not Slabtown. Maybe “Slabtown” is the name the transplants/migrants to Portland want to call the neighborhood because it sounds gritty, but the reality is that it’s Northwest Portland and not some developer’s new neighborhood with a name that a few focus groups liked.
considering the neighborhood has vastly changed since it earned the nickname “slabtown”, maybe it is overdue to adapt. and if we want to sound gritty, we can call it the bucket, just a spitting distance away.
Agree with Slabtown moniker from a focus group. Transplants STFU. Also, this writer needs to learn correct grammatical structure.