Portland's Beloved Ataula Will Not Reopen

Portland’s Beloved Ataula Will Not Reopen
José Chesa and Cristina Baez's iconic Catalan restaurant is no more. A farewell to one of the city's defining food gems.
By
Karen Brooks
4/22/2021 at 12:46pm
Ataula’s José Chesa
“When we closed our doors in March 2020, we never thought it would be the beginning of the end.” Thus begins a heartbreaking note from José Chesa and Cristina Baez. 
Ataula, a house of Catalan comforts and unstoppable passion, is no more. The restaurant, a fixture in Northwest Portland since 2013, tried a brief run at takeout last summer. But the Ataula zeitgeist—the infectious charm of the room, the personal food, the flavor highs—seemed at sea in a to-go world. “My food wasn't meant to be in a box,” as Chesa put it last fall.

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