RESTAURANT HAPPENINGS: After meaty Northeast eatery Belly closed in April, Northwest izakaya Tanuki has designs on moving in, applying for a liquor application last week. >> Australian pie store Pacific Pie Co.
has reopened in a new space on Southeast 7th Avenue at Hawthorne
Boulevard, with an added restaurant and pub. >> The third
iteration of Brasserie Montmarte has opened its doors, with Allium Bistro’s Pascal Chureau running the show and former Ten 01 chef Michael Hanaghan in the kitchen. >> Speaking of Ten 01 alums, former pastry chef Jeff McCarthy has taken a post as kitchen manager of new downtown commissary kitchen KitchenCru,
where he has launched a monthly supper club called TopTen. He’s not the
only one using the space for pop-up dining events: Chef John Goddard has moved his Balkan dining series, LUKA, there; Sassafras Southern Kitchen is now using it for its canning and preserving classes (mmm, watermelon-rind pickles!); and Portland Meat Collective is teaching butchery classes.
B-DAY: Bob Dylan turned 70 on May 24, and WW has created a Bob Dylan covers EP, Buckets of Rain, to mark the occasion. The EP features Kyle Morton of Typhoon doing “Buckets of Rain,” And And And performing “Brownsville Girl,” St. Even covering “Simple Twist of Fate,” and Ghosties playing “Spanish Harlem Incident.” The EP is available for free download at wweek.com right now! The fabled fifth EP track—from very busy, very awesome singer-songwriter Laura Gibson—should surface soon as a bonus track. Viva la Bob!
POD PEOPLE: Portland’s largest food-cart pod, centered on the parking lot at Southwest 10th Avenue and Alder Street, continues to grow, with the addition of 11 new carts. Newcomers include sandwich cart Picnic, Thai cart Bangkok Duck and Chicken, Vietnamese cart Red Guava, sushi cart Rolls Plus, hand-pulled noodle cart
Noodle House, burger cart Twisted Sistas, BBQ cart Touch Down’s,
Mexican cart El Rodeo, Brazilian cart Best of Brazil, Mediterranean cart
Shish Kabob, and panini cart Primi Panini.
Y DO BIG THINGS: Portland folk-pop outfit Y La Bamba is out on its biggest tour to date—opening East Coast dates for the unstoppable Neko Case—and keeping a tour diary at wweek.com
of its travels. The Portland seven-piece already saw the underbelly of
Middle America en route to meeting Case, and last week the band recorded
a “Tiny Desk Concert” with NPR, video evidence of which should be on
the Web in short order. Y La Bamba’s latest tour diary, written in
Mad-Lib form, is especially fun: “The next morning as we start our drive
towards Nelsonville, OH, we see a fan from the night before on the
corner smiling and waving. We then hear, as we round the corner,
‘Godspeed, you limpdick sandbags!’”
IMAGE: Alicia J. Rose
