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

Oregon City Brewing Is Adding a Year-Round Beer Garden and Food Cart Pod

Oregon City Brewing is one of those businesses that has started to convert even more of its property into an al fresco taproom. The brewery actually purchased three gravel parking lots surrounding the original location on Washington Street three years ago, not knowing how crucial that space would become during the pandemic. Last year, they converted half of it into temporary outdoor seating and leased the other portion to Coney Island Tavern.

A New Haunted Mansion-Themed Cocktail Lounge Is Scheduled to Open in Old Town This Month

Raven’s Manor, a cocktail lounge designed to look like a haunted mansion, is preparing to welcome its first customers through the doors in late April, barring any last-minute hitches with the buildout. The new business is opening inside the historic Henry Failing Building on Southwest 1st Avenue and Oak Street. The site was previously home to dance club and WW’s 2018 Bar of the Year, No Vacancy, which closed two years ago due to a legal dispute with the landlord.

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Liquor Commissioners Grill the Oregon Epidemiologist Why Bars Can’t Reopen Faster

The thrust of their questions: If Oregon can’t trace COVID outbreaks back to restaurants, where’s the evidence that such establishments present a public health risk?

A Portland Architecture Firm Gave Employees a Dining Allowance to Help Support Local Restaurants During the Pandemic

Despite the fact that the pandemic has forced Portland Dining Month into another hiatus, at least one Portland company is going out of its way to support restaurants in March by giving every single staff member an expense allowance to use to eat out. LRS Architects, an architecture and interior design firm with offices in Northwest Portland, sent out an internal email at the first of this month letting employees know that they would be receiving a $50 allotment to use at a local eatery in order to help boost the food and beverage industry following an incredibly tough year.

A New Portland Company Brings Together Mushrooms and Chocolate…Finally?

Vehicle Chocolates is a Portland-born pandemic project, combining 1,500 mg of mushroom extract with high-quality cacao for a wellness-oriented chocolate bar.

Two College Buddies Are Turning a Century-Old Portland Church Into an Awesome New Brewery

Brody Day and his business partner, Dustin Harder, had been looking for a place to start their own brewery. When they saw the church listed online, they knew they’d found the location—and the building found an unlikely savior.