Future Drinking: Vacant Lucier Space Resurrecting as Quartet

And other new places to eat and drink in Portland

By Matthew Korfhage

Some activity at the site of Portland's massive failed experiment in high-end fine-dining, Lucier, which until recently was so well preserved it looked like it had been cleared by neutron bomb. Three of Portland's most prominent African-American entrepreneurs—Frank Taylor of Portland Prime, Bernard Foster of The Skanner and parking don Roy Jay—are on the liquor license application for a proposed new venture, Quartet, at 1910 SW River Drive in the dully posh South Waterfront. The application promises live music from 6 pm to 10 pm.


Alan Davis, owner of the newly swank Produce Row Cafe, has hopped the Willamette with an application to open a venue called the Multnomah Whiskey Library at 1124 SW Alder, between a nail shop and a beauty salon in an egregiously under-served West End neighborhood. Its name, at least, sounds promising for the happy hour crowd.

Bangkok Bites Thai cuisine at 7915 SE Stark in Montavilla is being repackaged as a full-bar venue called Redwood. 

Brass Tacks Sandwiches at 3535 N Vancouver Ave. has put in for a beer and wine license.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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