In case you hadn’t heard, Portland is the best pizza city in America, at least according to Modernist Pizza authors Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya. In other food news, a new vegan convenience store is open in Creston-Kenilworth, the Two Wrongs team is opening a new “bar with sports,” Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty is reopening, and Bijou Cafe is saying goodbye after 42 years. Read on for all of that and more culinary updates, plus fun events for your weekend, like Portland Mercury‘s Summer of Slushies. For more delicious ideas for things to do, check out our food and drink calendar.
NEW OPENINGS AND RETURNS
Cutiee Buys
Shopping for plant-based products has never looked so cute. A new vegan convenience store called Cutiee Buys soft-opened next door to Coffee Beer in Creston-Kenilworth from July 1-5—though, as they write on their website, what was intended to be a soft opening “pretty much immediately became a grand open[ing] with all the love and attention we could have ever asked for.” The shop carries Junior’s Roasted Coffee beans, cold brew, a wide selection of beer on draft and in cans, wine, cider, hard seltzer, kombucha, condiments, vegan cheese, meat substitutes, plant-based milks, pantry items, sandwiches, snacks, Ice Queen pops, and other sundries.
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