Smith Teamaker Is Opening Its First Café With Food in Northwest Portland

Higgins’ Open-Air Bistro Is Back for Summer and Fall Dining

Nordic-Themed Hotel Kex Will Reopen for Lodging and Dining in Early June

Shalom Y’all’s Downtown Location Will Temporarily Closed for a Refresh and Rebrand

Travel Oregon Awards More Than $2.4 million for Projects That Promote Tourism Across the State

Sex Worker-Focused Food Delivery Service Meals 4 Heels Has Opened a Brick-and-Mortar Location

Killer Burger Will Open Its 13th Location in the Former Lompoc Tavern Slabtown Building

Killer Burger announced last week that it had signed a lease for its fifth location within Portland proper at 1620 Northwest 23rd Avenue.That building used to house Avenue 23 Tap and Table, a spinoff from the bar’s original Ankeny Street location. However, anyone who frequented the neighborhood best remembers the site as Lompoc Tavern, a sleek refuge for condo-dwelling beer drinkers who would have never gone to the wonderfully dark and dingy New Old Lompoc, which was razed in 2012 to make room for the mixed-use complex.

Ataula, a Standout for Spanish Cuisine in Portland, Is Permanently Closed

The pandemic has dealt another brutal blow to Portland’s dining scene, this time by taking out one of the city’s finest Spanish restaurants.Ataula, the modernist tapas eatery run by husband-and-wife team José Chesa and Cristina Baez on Northwest 23rd Place since 2013, will not reopen, as first reported by Portland Monthly. The couple announced the news this afternoon on the business’s Facebook page.