Lisa Nguyen, the owner of mochi doughnut pop-up Heyday, thought she’d beat the heat on Saturday, June 26, by prepping the day’s worth of doughnuts at 3 a.m. When she arrived at the kitchen at North Mississippi’s Psychic Bar, however, it was already 85 degrees inside the kitchen hotter than the still-dark night outside. She had to keep the dough in the fridge, to keep it from over-proofing. “Our decorating station was easily 10 degrees hotter,” she says. “We were dying, and it was only 4 a.m. by that point.”
Nguyen, like many other business owners in Portland this weekend, spent the last few days in constant battle with the heat. With temperatures breaking all-time records in Portland, the city’s restaurants and bars were putting out figurative fires throughout the weekend: An outage left more than 6,000 Portland-area Portland General Electric customers including some businesses, like Bunk Sandwiches without power. Refrigerators and freezers shut down mid-servic
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Prey + Tell Is Throwing a Cambodian Chicken House Party on Mississippi Even though they’re great at home, those flats and bats are obviously at their finest freshly delivered to your table and paired with her aromatic ranch or lime Buffalo sauce. Prey + Tell. IMAGE: Aaron Lee. Updated 6:29 AM If you’re looking to ease back into an IRL social life, eating crispy chicken wings and sipping on a mango slushie on the patio at Psychic Bar is about as close as you can get to feeling a party vibe without going to an actual house party.
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Red Robin’s ‘ghost kitchen,’ masquerading as separate restaurants, highlights fears over dine-in’s future
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 07, 2021
Molly Jewkes thought she was supporting a new local Portland restaurant when she ordered from Chicken Sammy s on Postmates last month. She was actually ordering from a ghost kitchen run by national chain Red Robin.
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Molly Jewkes came across a new restaurant prominently featured on Postmates while scrolling through the food delivery app last month.
She decided to order dinner from the restaurant, Chicken Sammy’s, thinking she was supporting a local Portland business.
But her chicken sandwich arrived in a red container with utensils from Red Robin. A sticker with a picture of a chicken was affixed to the plastic bag the food came in.
Diane Lamâs Cambodian-style fried chicken and house-made sauces are getting a long-term home.
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Katherine Chew Hamilton
2/19/2021 at 5:36pm
Prey & Tell specializes in Cambodian-style fried chicken with house-made sauces.
Back in January, we were both saddened and excited to report chef Diane Lam would be putting her contemporary Cambodian pop-up, Sunshine Noodles, on hiatus until the spring while she launched a fried chicken takeout and delivery ghost kitchen concept, Prey & Tell. After a single bite of Prey & Tellâs crisp-battered fried chicken wings dipped in French-Cambodian ranch sauce, though, we were sold. Now, Prey & Tell has gone on hiatus earlier than expected, but itâs for a good cause: