SALTY SWEET: Attention salt and caramel fiends: PDX salt headquarters The Meadow is hosting another tasting with sweets master David Briggs, the man behind the excellent Xocolatl de Davíd chocolate and caramel line. You already missed the first July 1 class, which basically consisted of slurping wine and taste-testing a bunch of decadent caramels with a number of different kinds of salt while Briggs and Meadow’s “selmelier,” Mark Bitterman, explain what marvelous things are happening in your mouth, but there’s a second class scheduled for 6 pm Tuesday, July 15. You really shouldn’t miss it. Call 288-4633 to nab a space. It’s $15 per person. UPDATE Wednesday, July 2: The July 15 is sold out, but you can reserve a spot and the Tuesday, July 29 class now. Do it!

FLAT TIRE: Don’t distress, Little Red Bike Cafe (4823 N Lombard St., 289-0120) lovers. The butcher paper pasted over the windows at this NoPo bike-up or sit-down cafe doesn’t mean that they’ve closed up shop. Far from it. Owners Ali Jepson and Evan Dohrmann are just remodeling and, oh yeah, they’re getting married. That means, at least for the next week or so, they’ll only have select items available at the bike-up window. Congrats to the cute couple.