Lita Rae Cafe & Bakery

Did you know that we offer personal chef, meal planning & preparation services in the greater Portland area? With a background providing in-home cooking for folks with various dietary restrictions, we are excited to share our sliding scale program to make our services more accessible to the wider community 🌸

Contact us today to set up a consult & to learn more about our services this spring!

Now offering personal chef services in the greater Portland area! Reach out for more info :)

✨ Vending at the co-op today! ✨ lots of homemade seasonal treats for sale! 🍪👌🏻🥮 Come thru to support small q***r businesses this holiday season ✨💖✨ here til 4pm 🕓

🎤🎶 Come celebrate the time we’ve spent in the Brooklyn Cooperative Grocery with some singing & sweets 🍰🧁🎂 and help us prepare for the next chapter!

The Brooklyn Co-op is moving to a new location just a few blocks away (next to the Post Office off of Powell), and we’re packing up to make our own moves too. We hope you can join us for some revelry, combined with support packing up our sweet little bakery & cafe.

With DJ Babutchka joining us as our karaoke jockey it’s sure to be a great time!! Hope to see you there 💕🎶

RSVP with us by DM’ing us, or feel free to just pop over!

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✨ Join us for a special Shabbat Dinner Fundraiser at Lita Rae Cafe this Friday, Sept 13, 7-10 PM! 🍽️ Celebrate, connect, and support Rad Fruits PDX while enjoying a delicious meal and community vibes. 🌱💖 A portion of proceeds will gontom ass the Al Shawa Project for Gaza and support our local cafe. Limited space—RSVP by Friday noon! 🙌 Event linnixxn a no nxs

So excited to be hosting this fundraiser for Foster Village: It Takes a Community to Build a Village, newly going by Rad Fruits PDX!! There is so much beautiful fruit growing this time of year in the community garden, and we're delighted to highlight it in our menu for this upcoming shabbat dinner. We hope you can make it to support!

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Hey there folks! I'm stoked to share that I was recently interviewed on the cafe's opening day by Rockne Andrew Roll, editor of the Jewish Review. It's been a while since my name graced the pages off any newspaper - not since I edited my high school paper back in the day!

Check out the article below and learn more about my passion project in honor of Amy grandma Lita.

My roots are in Brooklyn. My grandparents met & fell in love in Brooklyn. I would very likely not exist were it not for Brooklyn.

Which is why it has felt like such a powerful, b'shert / meant-to-be & full circle that I finally found a space to run my daydream of a cafe out of, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Portland. Thousands of miles away from those roots, but the mycelium network of familial connectivity still strong. As I take this next step in small business ownership, I invite my community to enjoy my food & be nourished, in-so-doing honoring my grandmother's legacy of feeding her community.

In partnership and collaboration with Know Thy Food Cooperative (aka the Brooklyn Cooperative Grocery) we will be revitalizing the kitchen, bringing back the cafe, and nurturing this space as a community hub. We have beautiful visions & plans for this place, and hope you'll come visit us at Lita Rae Cafe & Bakery!

We're doing a soft opening for the next few weeks, introducing a handful of baked goods each day. This week we have mini chocolate banana bread loaves, slices of brown butter banana bread, mocha brownies, and blackberry scones! Come by and treat yourself 🥰

Our Purim Pop-up for P@lestine was powerful & full of precious moments! Huge thanks to for your partnership & co-organizing of this event, and to for hosting us in the sweetest space imaginable 💖🙌🏻

It’s clear from speaking to those that attended the pop-up on Sunday that the PDX anti-Zionist Jewish community needs more spaces that feel aligned with their values around anti-occupation and the centering of the Palestinian resistance, particularly amidst holidays that celebrate Jewish resistance to oppression & attempted annihilation. We were able to create a beautiful event that reflected our support for P@lestinian freedom and justice, and used our Jewish food traditions to raise money to directly benefit a Palestinian family.

At final tally, we raised over ***$1300***for local community member ‘s family in P@lestine as they flee G@z@ in search of safety. If you weren’t able to be present at the pop-up but want to support, the link to give is in our bio 🤲🏻 May these funds help the intergenerational families of our SWANA (South West Asian & North African) community members, and may they be blessed with safety and nourishment during this holy month of Ramadan. May it be so, Ken yehi rahtzon 🙏🏻💗 and, if you are so called, the work of the PCRF is always worth supporting.

May we continue to fight in creative ways for collective liberation, and may we use our strength & leverage our power, privilege, and resources to build Olam Haba, a better world 🌍 for all, a world where we are all one, Echad. Where when my neighbor is hurting, I am hurting, and I do something to help. Where we care about each other in radical ways, and show up for community care with consistency & commitment. This is the world I am interested in building. I hope you’ll join me. Chag Purim sameach, and FREE P@LESTINE ❤️‍🔥