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In case you were too frazzled by the holidays or busy lamenting 2021’s restaurant closures, there was an end-of-the-year bright spot in our local food scene. The all-day, worker-owned Cafe Olli opened on December 9th. The restaurant is centered around the iconic brick oven that defined former occupant Ned Ludd, and is a promising step into the future for Portland’s restaurant landscape. Co-founders Ryan Dirks, Cami Wong, Daniel Green, and Taylor Manning all previously worked.
[You can read all of the Mercury’s “Top Stories of 2021” here.—eds] When it comes to eating out, "taking out" was the biggest food and drink news of 2021. While the pandemic knocked so many of Portland's fantastic restaurants on their heels, local eateries showed their ingenuity and gumption by super charging their take-out game. And in this list of the Mercury's Favorite Take-Out Joints of 2021, we're paying loving tribute to these hometown heroes..
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