From Katherine Benvenuti’s pumpkin-speculoos to Bakeshop’s brown butter apple with buckwheat streusel, these are the essential Portland Thanksgiving pie shops.
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Fills Donuts Has Replaced a Blue Star Donuts and Is Flexing on Voodoo Doughnut With Unexpected, Savory Recipes Look what we did with your crappy maple bacon doughnut.” (Wesley Lapointe) Portland s doughnut scene abhors a vacuum. When Blue Star Donuts declared bankruptcy and began closing locations, Fills Donuts announced plans to rise in what was once the only Blue Star, on the same stretch of Northwest Washington Street as Grassa and Lardo. Like those spots, it s part of Kurt Huffman s ChefStable restaurant group, as is Bar King in Southeast. The Bakery at Bar King s Katherine Benvenuti is also the main pastry brain at Fills, in tandem with Noble Rot pioneer and cannabis chef Leather Storrs, who s also one of Huffman s oldest friends.
6 of Portland’s best restaurants are coming to Lake Oswego
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
Lake Oswego s Mercato Grove development will feature new locations for six restaurants from the ChefStable group.Courtesy of Mercato Grove
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Like most restaurants, Northwest Portland’s St. Jack has spent the past 10 months pivoting from one business model to the next, creating a new takeout menu from scratch, building a new patio out front, installing coronavirus-zapping ionization filters and Plexiglass barricades indoors, adjusting when the state shuts or reopens indoor and outdoor dining, and on and on.
This year, Portland’s signature French restaurant has a chance to start from scratch, joining five other ChefStable restaurants Lardo, Grassa, Fills Donuts, Oven & Shaker and a suburban revival of the Tasty brand with new locations in Lake Oswego’s upcoming Mercato Grove development just east of Interstate 5. All six businesses get to build this new