Jamie Turner lived near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard throughout her formative years and into adulthood. Now, she’s making her mark on the neighborhood that raised her. Her restaurant, Ja’Das Soulful Eatz, is equally about bringing together the Black community as it is about soul food for the soul. The humble storefront held a grand reopening last month. It originally opened in November 2020, but Turner tired of the pandemic's off-and-on indoor dining restrictions. She.
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Rangoon Bistro started spreading the gospel of Burmese street food through pop-up dinners. It later became a fixture of the King Farmers Market, and shifted to a takeout-only concept operating out of the Gotham Building, during the height of the pandemic. That evolution has now culminated in a brick and mortar restaurant in Southeast Portland’s Breathe Building. “The way we’ve done everything is slow but deliberate,” co-owner Nick Sherbo told the Mercury. “Alex and I.