Feast Portland

Today via Portland Monthly, we shared the news that our festival would not be returning—not in 2023 and not ever again.

For a lot more detail, please read Karen Brooks' article (www.pdxmonthly.com/eat-and-drink/2022/12/feast-portland-food-festival-canceled) plus a statement from Feast (mailchi.mp/feastportland/futureoffeast).

To everyone on Team Feast, our core collaborators, our friends in the chef and restaurant community, our partners and sponsors, vendors and guests, thank you for believing and investing in our vision.

In 2012, we set out to create a culinary festival that was worthy of the city we loved, valuable to the industry we represented, and relevant in the world of food. Feast succeeded on all counts, and looking back, probably ended when it needed to when our last weekend festival wrapped in 2019.

Looking forward, we may have some surprises to share. And for those of you wondering, we have had fun with our new Feast newsletter, and we plan to keep that going. (So don’t unsubscribe yet!)

Love to all.

Photo: Alan Weiner

Tomato butter sauce, tiramisu, and more 🍝 Here’s how we would spend a gift card at the NE 28th Ave Italian market + restaurant Montelupo Italian Market:
Pre-batched Negronis and Manhattans
The city's finest bucatini
House-made tomato butter sauce
Partanna castelvetrano olives
At least one, possibly two servings of tiramisu
Olympia Provisions Rosette d'Oregon salami
Take & bake penne alla vodka
Arachidella crunchy peanut spread

Looking for more gifting ideas? Check out issue 14 of our newsletter: https://bit.ly/FeastNewsletterIssue14

We’re spending the next couple weeks showing you where we’re finding unique gifts from local shops for the food-lovers in your life. First stop: Goodie's Snack Shop (www.goodiessnackshop.com)!

This newly opened “first generation snack shop” in Old Town/Chinatown is a welcome addition to the city and absolutely worth your time checking out. Great people, great snacks, great opportunity to support your local businesses this holiday season!

Our picks from Goodie's:
East African Root Ginger Beer
Peach Konjac Drinkable Jelly
Imported Lay’s nori potato chips
Pan’s Mushroom Jerky (Zesty Thai flavor)
Ting’s Jackfruit Chips
“Juiced” Avocado candle
Cabi Umami Dashi Soy Sauce
Lobster Ramen
Hygge scented matches
Dr. Jart “Shake & Shot” skincare mask
Earth Tones ceramics planter pot

Looking for more gifting ideas? Check out issue 14 of our newsletter: https://bit.ly/FeastNewsletterIssue14

The gifting issue of our newsletter drops TOMORROW (12/7). Follow us as we scan around town for a few of our favorite things. We dive deep into the goods at markets like Wellspent Market, Providore Fine Foods, Goodie's Snack Shop, Montelupo Italian Market & The Meadow, as well as gifts from specialty shops like Portland Knife House, and much more. Sign up for the newsletter at mailchi.mp/feastportland/feast-newsletter, and check your inboxes tomorrow morning!

📷: Wellspent Market

Sometimes you don’t have the time for a long and leisurely lunch. That’s where the single dish lunch saves the day, and we’re lucky enough to have two iconic (and delicious) restaurants that define the category here in Portland at Kalé - Ultimate Japanese Comfort Food and Nong's Khao Man G*i.

PS, a new newsletter drops next Wednesday. Subscribe at https://mailchi.mp/feastportland/feast-newsletter and check your inbox on 12/7!

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The latest issue of our newsletter goes live tomorrow (11/23) and is focused all around lunch, a somewhat underserved meal in Portland that we think deserves all the love.

Sign up at mailchi.mp/feastportland/feast-newsletter by tomorrow morning, then text your friend and invite them to lunch! You can pick where after reading tomorrow’s issue.

📷: Josh Chang for Nong's Khao Man G*i

A new issue of our newsletter drops tomorrow, and this week we’re diving into the tasting menus of Portland and beyond. We explore classic fine dining experiences (think Okta, Tercet, Berlu), as well as chef’s choice meals (like Kee's Loaded Kitchen, Gado Gado, Maurice & more). ⁠
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Be sure you're subscribed (mailchi.mp/feastportland/feast-newsletter), and happy feasting!⁠
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📷: Evan Sung for Okta

It’s newsletter day! In this issue: burgers 🍔 Jordan Michelman shares a “stream of melted cheese consciousness, oozing into the bun-form of reported burger journalism,” we interview burger enthusiast Bill Oakley, and more! Subscribe before noon at bit.ly/FeastNewsletterSignUp, and happy burgering.

Snacks snacks snacks! That’s what tomorrow’s newsletter is all about. This issue’s got it all:

An essay from cannabis writer Lauren Yoshiko about late night munchies in Portland, highlighting Deadshot & Sunrice, Creepy's, Sugar Hill, Bluto's, among others.

5 questions with self-described dining and travel hypewoman Nori DeVega ( on IG and TikTok), where we chat about the jianbing from Bing Mi Food Cart (pictured here), which is her pick for a snack that a visitor to Portland HAS to try, snacks that remind her of home in Manila, and more.

Jordan Michelman waxing poetic about late-night snacking in Portland, mentioning his go-tos from Tulip Shop Tavern, Baby Doll Pizza, Bottle Rocket PDX, Prost! Portland & Utopia Lounge.

Plus some restaurants and dishes we’ve been loving in the Where We’re Feasting section (👋 Flying Fish- Sustainable Seafood- Oregon, Khao niew - lao street food, Excellent Cuisine, Milk Glass Mrkt, Kachka, Canlis Restaurant, Le Caviste, and Taku).

You can subscribe at mailchi.mp/feastportland/feast-newsletter —happy snacking!

📷: Nori DeVega

Not only does Portland have closer proximity to a world-class wine region than any other city in North America (and very few in the world), our city is also home to an impressive number of cool bottle shops—and we visited dozens of them!

Read all about it and catch up on where we’ve been feasting in the next edition of our newsletter, which drops tomorrow at noon. Sign up here: bit.ly/FeastNewsletterSignUp

Did you catch the latest issue of our newsletter yesterday? If you’re not subscribed yet (which you can do here: bit.ly/FeastNewsletterSignUp).

For this issue, we chatted with our friend Brian McGinn, co-creator & executive producer of Chef's Table, about the Netflix show’s new season, which is all about pizza. We talked about his thoughts on which city has the best pizza, how Chef’s Table came to highlight Portland’s own Lovely’s Fifty Fifty, what restaurants he loved while filming here in Portland, and more.

The issue also features a wonderful overview of the PDX pizza ecosystem by our own Jordan Michelman.

Check it out here: bit.ly/FeastNewsletterIssue8

Our friends at Chef's Table are releasing a new season all about pizza tomorrow, including an entire episode dedicated to Portland’s own Sarah Minnick of Lovely's Fifty Fifty, and in celebration, we're devoting this week's newsletter to Portland's wonderful pizzerias!

We explore the evolution of Portland pizza, share some inside tips from chef friends, and talk to Brian McGinn, co-creator & executive producer of Chef’s Table to learn more about the season. The issue drops TOMORROW, so be sure you’re subscribed before then: bit.ly/FeastNewsletterSignUp

It's such an honor to have Portland pizza represented on this scale, and Sarah and Karen Brooks, who narrates the episode, are the perfect ambassadors. We know we’ll be logging into Netflix tomorrow to watch Lovely’s Fifty Fifty in all its glory!