Little Green Pickle

Eleven years ago, we jumped off a cliff, risked our careers, left our cushy New York jobs and moved to a promised land called Portland, Oregon to hopefully open a restaurant of our own. Instead, we started two businesses to support the food and beverage communities we love.

Now, it’s time to go out like Seinfeld. We are closing Little Green Pickle. It’s time to let the next generation of talented PR people run the world. Genesis Burton and Lyndsay Dyk, our extraordinary managers, are both launching new PR businesses of their own - Genesis Mayorga with Que Chilero Group (https://www.quechileropdx.com/), and Lyndsay Field Dyk with Field Day PR (https://www.fielddaypr.com/). Our amazing assistant, Shannon Grady, is heading to Seattle, and we hope you all will connect with them in the future.

Carrie Welch is pursuing her dream of becoming a professor, Jannie Huang is going back in the kitchen with Just Cook Jannie (https://www.justcookjannie.com/). We have loved every moment of this part of our career and it’s time we see what’s next. You all have inspired us with your stories and how you’ve let us into your lives.

Follow your dreams.

Love,
Jannie and Carrie

The last stop on our Oregon in Season tour with finds us in Downtown Portland with the talented ! ‘Fish and Chips’ featuring turnips show the creativity and imagination Chef Jewan Manuel brings to his vegan dishes. It’s been an amazing tour of all Oregon has to offer this year! Thank you and for partnering with us. Grab one of these this week, they’re on the menu in the until Thursday, 12/16.

If you’ve never had a Tingly Kabocha Squash & Wild Mushroom Kare Donut, now is the time to head over to in Beaverton and celebrate Oregon in Season with . Crispy on the outside, warm on the inside, as Owner Hiro Horie says, “if you don’t call this fall, I don’t know what you call it.”

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is officially a holiday here in Oregon. We were honored to work with to tell this story of the Brigham family and Cascade Locks in the Gorge. Their collaborative Salmon Meatballs in Coconut Broth are available at the fish market this week!

We are a le***an-owned company, and we want to express our unwavering support for everyone in the Newberg community who is working to strike down the unnecessary and hurtful ban on Pride and Black Lives Matter signs in schools. It is hard enough growing up in a marginalized community, and the ban and resulting controversy only makes it harder for our kids. We support all of the allies working on the ground to encourage and protect the le***an, gay, bisexual, trans, q***r, and kids of color who should not only have the right to display whatever they want to display, but speak their minds and be heard.

Dinner outdoors was magical. The team has taken their beautiful, precious heart from inside the restaurant and is now sharing it all outside in a special experience that is only Urdaneta. Thank you for allowing us to celebrate with you again and the whole wonderful team.

These cool mornings have us thinking: it’s officially porchetta-on-the-patio season, baby! Oh, you’ve never heard of it? Well it’s kind of like PSL season, except you take your sensible boots and cozy layers down to and revel in the crisped, savory (w/just a touch of sweet) pork cut nestled under a bed of fresh greens and atop a bun, hand-made behind the butcher counter from pork raised humanely and sustainably at Piccone’s sister farm Wallow & Root. Trust us, this season is best celebrated alongside a crisp Italian-style Pilsner, no pumpkin spice necessary.

Happy Holidays everyone! Love, LGP at home. ☃️💚