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Portland Lost a Lot of Great Restaurants This Year. These Are the Four Dishes We’ll Miss the Most.

R.I.P. Johnna Wares’ fried kale.

The Top Five Places to Eat in Portland This Week

Hot Plates, coming through!

The Top Five Places to Eat in Portland

Hot Plates, coming through!

The Most Important Portland Culture News of the Week, From Best to Worst

A small town in Eastern Oregon got a surprise visit from Snoop Dogg last weekend.

Little Bird, Gabriel Rucker’s Second Restaurant, Will Close at the End of the Month

James Beard award-winning chef Gabriel Rucker is closing Little Bird, the sibling restaurant to his lauded East Burnside landmark, Le Pigeon. Rucker and co-owner Andy Fortgang announced the decision to shutter the bistro on Southwest 6th Avenue, which was first reported by The Oregonian, in an email this morning.

Little Bird Bistro

This French-fusion bistro, in a dining room best described as sultry—with red leather booths lined up beneath baskets of cascading philodendrons—is the work of celebrity chef Gabriel Rucker.