AIA Committee on Design Conference

Oct 6 – 9, 2016 Portland, Oregon AIA Committee on Design Conference

Oct 6 – 9, 2016 Portland, Oregon

3 The AIA Committee on Design would like to acknowledge the following TABLE OF CONTENTS sponsors for their generous support of the 2016 AIA COD conference. Welcome Letter 7

PLATINUM Conference Co-Chairs 8

Conference Schedule 11

Tour Sites 21

Dining Recommendations 47

GOLD Notes 53

4 | 2016 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | PORTLAND, OR Dear COD Members,

I am very excited to welcome you few days that will take us to a diverse to the City of Portland for this year’s range of projects, including Alvar domestic conference. Portland Aalto’s Mount Angel Library, recent currently enjoys the reputation as projects by some of Portland’s best one of the more livable and vibrant firms including, Allied Works, Skylab, cities in the country and recently was ZGF and Holst Architects and we will selected by Metropolis magazine as conclude with a visit to the almost one of the 10 best cities in the world. completed Japanese Pavilion by Kengo Kuma. The COD last visited Portland over 30 years ago, shortly after Michael I have really enjoyed the opportunity Graves’ iconic Portland Building was and honor to serve as the 2016 completed. Since the COD’s last visit, Chair of the COD and would like to Portland has undergone a major thank everyone who attended our transformation that has been guided international conference in Havana, by both the planning efforts of the the awards reception in Philadelphia 1970s and 1980s as well as a major and our conference here in Portland. investment in public transportation and alternative transportation I hope you enjoy the conference! infrastructure.

I have been very grateful for the time and effort of our local co-chairs in organizing this conference. Doug Philip L. Laird, AIA, LEED AP Benson, FAIA, Jeff Yrazabal, AIA and President Dave Otte, AIA have put together a ARC / Architectural Resources tightly packed itinerary over the next Cambridge Inc.

6 | 2016 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | PORTLAND, OR WELCOME | 7 “I have seen a lot of scenery in my life, but I have seen nothing so tempting Conference Co-Chairs as a home for a man than this Oregon country. You have a basis here for civilization on its highest scale, and I am going to ask you a question which you may not like. Are you good enough to have this country in your possession? Have you got enough intelligence, imagination and cooperation among you to make the best use of these opportunities?”

Lewis Mumford, address to the Portland City Club, 1938

We couldn’t be more excited to light-rail right through the middle of share our home with you. Walk downtown. These are bold ideas that Jeff Yrazabal, AIA, LEED BD+C Dave Otte, AIA down Portland’s streets or wander come from working together for the our Oregon countryside today and common good, and it is the legacy we Jeff is President at SRG with 17 Dave is a principal with Holst it isn’t hard to sense what Lewis are excited to help bridge to the next years of experience in architecture, Architecture with over 20 years Mumford was describing. From that generation of designers in our region. and has been a proud resident of of experience in the design and first decision in 1845 to create ever- Portland for his entire career. SRG is construction industry. Skilled in walkable 200-foot city blocks to Portland is not a place for remarkable currently designing several notable conceptual visioning, he pursues 2015 when we opened a major bridge buildings, but rather a city where projects in our region, including the elegant solutions to his clients’ for every conceivable mode of transit we build remarkable places. We are new Multnomah County Courthouse complex programmatic needs, other than the automobile, Portland the in-between from a multitude in downtown Portland, the Knight remaining dedicated to architecture does things differently in ways that of voices, the fabric knitted by Cancer Research Building for OHSU that is modern, appropriate, improve the built environment and generations of careful practitioners on the South Waterfront, and a and sustainable. enrich the human experience. that love their city and the land. So renovation and expansion of the join us as we take you on a tour of the iconic Hayward Field at the University Dave’s focus at Holst is social impact An important part of what makes past, present, and future of design of Oregon. by design, helping create affordable Portland unique is our interconnected in Portland. We hope you love it as housing and services for Oregon’s design community. It is this sense of much as we do. Jeff is a past AIA Portland President, most vulnerable citizens. He is also community that has always driven our AIA Portland Committee on the an active member of the architecture spirit of innovation and our unwavering Keep Portland Weird, Environment’s Co-Chair, and served community. After helping design collaboration. Because we have never as the Young Architect Regional the PDX Center for Architecture and been a city of riches, those before Director of the AIA Northwest & serving as an AIA Portland board us leveraged this collaboration Pacific Region. His work for both SRG member and volunteer, he was elected and began a legacy as a city of Jeff Yrazabal, AIA and the broader community focuses AIA Portland President in 2015. ideas. Preserve a pristine gorge for on advocacy, design excellence, generations to come. Build a waterfront and fostering strategic partnerships park instead of a highway. Turn a that will serve the built and natural parking lot into a piazza, and run Dave Otte, AIA environment for years to come.

8 | 2016 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | PORTLAND, OR CO-CHAIRS | 9 COMMITTEE THANK YOU Pacific Northwest College of Art MEMBERS Allied Works Dave Otte, AIA Tsilli Pines Holst Architecture Colleen Bastendorff Director, Program & Services Design Week Portland Doug Benson, FAIA Coordinator, AIA Portland Merryman Barnes Pioneer Courthouse Architects Anthony Belluschi, FAIA Square Jeff Yrazabel, AIA Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Portland Art Museum SRG Partnership Leslie Boll SERA Rod Ashley, AIA SRG Partnership Roderick Ashley Jon Schleuning, FAIA Architect BORA Founding Partner, GBD Architects SRG Partnership

Hacker Skylab Architecture

Robert Hastings, FAIA SRG Partnership, Inc Conference Agency Architect Tri Met Paddy Tillett, FAIA Schedule Robert Hoffman William Tripp, AIA AIA Executive Director, AIA Portland Br. Alcuin Walch, Mount Angel Abbey Holst Architecture

Wieden+Kennedy Deborah Kafoury Commission Chair, William Wilson, AIA Multnomah County

Works Partnership Lever Architecture

Mike Zilis, ASLA MGA&D

ZGF Brian Newman

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The story of Portland’s emergence in the early efforts to define our city's 6 AM as one of the nation’s most livable future and continues to be an active cities began as a collaborative participant today. 7 and spirited conversation among a dedicated group of architects, Multnomah County Commission planners, business people, politicians Chair Deborah Kafoury, 8 and citizens around issues of this Commissioner Kafoury grew up in place, livability and community in Portland where her parents held 9 the early 1970’s. So, it is appropriate public office. As a community activist, public service advocate that the Committee on Design’s 10 Portland Conference also begin and elected official, Commissioner with a conversation. Tonight five Kafoury has been at the center of our 11 individuals representing a similar community’s conversations about spectrum of interests and skills will livability and our future. engage in a discussion that will 12 PM briefly touch on the beginnings of Tsilli Pines, Tsilli is the co-founder and Director of Design Week our city’s transformation of the public 1 1 – 6 PM realm, move into a deeper discussion Portland, an annual event focused on Conference Registration of the significant work underway and Portland’s creative community across 2 Hotel Lucia all disciplines. She is also the host of its impacts, and end with thoughts 400 SW Broadway about the challenges we face in the Creative Mornings. Tsilli is an inspired 3 near and long term future. Tonight’s leader in efforts focused on Portland’s panelists are: emergence as a creative hub. 4 4 – 5:30 PM Robert Hastings, FAIA, As Agency Dave Otte, AIA, As a principal with COD Annual Meeting Architect for our local transit agency, Holst Architecture Dave is deeply 5 AIA, CFA Tri Met, Bob has been intimately involved in a diverse range of 5:30 – 8 PM involved in the development of the Portland projects from community 6 Welcoming Reception & Panel Discussion significant transit infrastructure that service facilities to affordable and Location: is a foundation of Portland’s livability. transitional housing across Portland. AIA Portland, Center for Architecture Dave is also a long time leader in 7 403 NW 11th Ave (corner of NW 11th & Flanders) Jon Schleuning, FAIA, Jon is the AIA Portland and was the principal founding partner of SRG Partnership architect of AIA Portland’s Center for 8 Dinner on your own Architects and was a key participant Architecture. (Suggestions included on p. 48) 9 PM

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6 AM

7:30 – 11:30 AM 8 Pearl District Walking Tour Start at Hotel Lucia

9 400 SW Broadway

11:30 AM – 1 PM 12 PM Lunch Bridgeport Brewing Company, 1318 NW Northrup St

1 BUS / TRAVEL 1:15 – 2:30 PM

2 Cultural / Government District Walking Tour

BUS / TRAVEL

3 3 – 5:30 PM South Waterfront District Walking Tour

BUS DROP-OFF AT HOTEL LUCIA 6 Dinner on your own (Suggestions included on p. 48) 7

9 PM

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6 AM

7:30 AM 8 Travel / Bus pick-up at Hotel Lucia

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM 9 Tours

10 Stop 1: Sokol Blosser Winery Dayton, OR 11

Stop 2: Alvar Aalto Library & Annunciation Hall 12 PM at Mount Angel Abbey St. Benedict, OR 1 Stop 3: Portland Japanese Garden Construction Site

2 Portland, OR

Stop 4: The Yard / Slate Mixed Use 3 Portland, OR

TBD 6 Bus drop-off at Hotel Lucia 6:30 – 10 PM 7 Annual Dinner Buses from Hotel Lucia to Altabira Restaurant

9 PM

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6 AM

9:30 AM – 1:30 PM 10 Bus pick-up at Hotel Lucia

11 Tours: Watzek House 12 PM Belluschi House Council Crest House 1

1:30 PM 2 End of Conference

9 PM

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Tour Sites

20 | 2016 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | PORTLAND, OR SECTION | 21 The Pearl District Portland, OR

Portland’s Pearl District began its was an early AIA RUDAT together current transformation in the mid- with the initiatives of several 1980s when it began to be populated developers and the city to develop by artists and was rezoned from a comprehensive and visionary plan industrial to mixed use. Through for the area. Currently, a significant a series of public and private number of new housing units are interventions including the removal under construction, the boundaries of of the rail yards, the insertion of the district are moving north towards several public infrastructure projects formerly heavy industrial areas and including a network of new parks a vital 24/7 community has been and the integration of the Portland created. Additionally, a number of Streetcar, the area has become a educational and cultural facilities highly desired area for new housing have located in the district, further and business activity. Among the enlivening the pedestrian character inspirations for this transformation of the neighborhood.

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Portland’s central city is called the Michael Graves’ infamous Portland Cultural District and acts as the Building, and the Neoclassical cultural hub of the state and region. Multnomah County Courthouse sit In this area, the bulk of local public at the western edge of the district. arts and culture funding has been The Edith Green-Wendall Wyatt concentrated. Oregon’s largest and Federal Building (2013), Multnomah most renowned arts institutions reside County Justice Center, and the Mark there, including the Portland Center O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse mark of the Performing Arts, Portland Art the eastern edge of the district. Museum, and Oregon Symphony. These six buildings front onto and sandwich two parklike public squares Located in downtown is Portland’s and a plaza. To the west is Portland’s nine-block Government District, transportation mall, the tree lined housing City, County, and Federal Park Blocks, and Cultural District; to institutions. The Italian Renaissance- the east is Waterfront Park and the style Portland City Hall (1895), Willamette River.

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The South Waterfront District of major new high-rise housing redevelopment project is the towers by local developers, largest urban renewal initiative in coupled with the creation of a new Portland’s history. The redevelopment waterfront campus for Oregon Health transforms an underutilized and Sciences University. The campus isolated brownfield into a mixed- is currently taking shape through use, transit-oriented neighborhood the construction of new health care while reclaiming public access to and research facilities all of which the Willamette River. The South are connected to the existing hilltop Waterfront redevelopment also offers campus via an aerial tram that is an unprecedented opportunity to the result of an international design implement Portland’s economic, competition. A critical mass of new social and environmental growth housing and institutional buildings objectives through an integrated are in place with and equally and sustainable approach. The significant amount of construction focus of the area is a combination currently underway.

In 2012, Sokol Blosser Winery of the Yamhill Valley. A main tasting commissioned Allied Works to room occupies the center of the new develop a master plan and design a building and includes a bar, outdoor new tasting room and event space terrace, sitting area and hearth. A that would be the showpiece of library and kitchen flank the tasting the 100-acre estate. The project room and offer a range of scales and is the first to bring internationally- spatial qualities for gathering and recognized, contemporary wine tasting. Below the main floor, a architecture to the heart of the Oregon new cellar is embedded in the earth, wine country. The site is organized providing space for private tastings as terraces that are carved from and wine storage. the contours of the Dundee Hills, one of the premiere wine growing Inside and out, the building is unified appellations in the United States. by striated wood cladding that These terraces form open and walled presents a new, organic architectural gardens, parking areas and outdoor form derived from the vineyard rows event space for the new Tasting Room. and vernacular wood agricultural buildings of the region. Within the building are three interconnected volumes with specific The project received a 2013 Design orientation to the surrounding Award from AIA Portland landscape and spectacular views

In the early 1960s, library director Fr. and white background, softened by Barnabas Reasoner, OSB approached undulating curves and light colored the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto to wood. As with all of Aalto’s work it design a new library building for the is both simple and complex. The abbey. Fr. Reasoner wrote Aalto a letter structure, including three stories and a that described the site as “a modern mezzanine, was completed in 1970. The American Acropolis,” which led him entire library, with the exception of the to agree to undertake the project. bottom floor, is awash in natural light. Because of his love of libraries and the special qualities of the Mount Angel The library is located at the hilltop Abbey site, Aalto agreed to design the Mount Angel Benedictine Seminary. library for a nominal fee. Aalto worked The simple single story inner facade with his former employee, Vernon in pale brick demurely continues the Demars of the San Francisco firm courtyard edge, blending with the Demars & Wells, to realize the project. traditional buildings on either side. Only after entering this facade and The architecture of the Abbey Library passing the circulation center is the reflects and shapes its spirit and visitor struck with the power and spirit purpose. The building’s natural light of the plunging, uplifting arc of the illuminates the multi-color bindings central space, calmly palpable with of the books, which are offered on light from above. open stacks against a disciplined black

The academic center for graduate include natural daylighting and theological study for the seminary ventilation, which take advantage of at Mount Angel Abbey includes cross-breezes on the hilltop. A new six classrooms, administrative and courtyard adjacent to the academic faculty offices, a board room, and center replaces a parking lot, creating common student spaces. Much a more cloistered sense of space for care was given to develop a design the monastery. All parking and roads that reflects the Benedictine were removed from the hilltop and a values of hospitality, stewardship, new plaza and landscaping was built craftsmanship and beauty. to enhance the monastic character of Sustainable design elements the environment.

Tokyo based Kengo Kuma and Café – allowing for more activities Associates developed the vision and gathering. The Village House will and design for the expansion of house art gallery spaces, a multi- the Portland Japanese Garden, with purpose classroom, administrative Hacker Architects serving as the local offices, gift shop, and the Vollum partner. The inspired design blends Library – a comprehensive resource traditional Japanese design with the on Japanese gardening and related spirit of the Pacific Northwest. arts. The Tea Café will provide a place to rest and refresh while experiencing An enhanced entrance will better Japanese tradition. welcome visitors and will feature a water garden to mark the beginning The existing Garden will stay intact of the transition from the city to the and unchanged, enhanced by seven tranquility of the Garden. A lively new landscaped areas including cultural space will be situated a moss hillside garden, a bonsai outside of the main Garden to terrace, and the Bill de Weese preserve the peace and tranquility of chabana garden, which will be the the historic Garden itself. The cultural first of its kind in North America. village will feature the new Tateuchi Courtyard, Village House, and Tea Images courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates.

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Yard YARD Portland, OR | Skylab Architects

Yard is a 21 story mixed-use building that combines residential, commercial, retail, office and parking. Yard along with Side Yard, a 20,000 sq ft pedestrian and bicyclist buffer are located in a former industrial neighborhood in Portland Oregon’s central eastside, adjacent to the legendary Burnside Skate Park. The building responds to the sloping site and arterial infrastructure with an elevated podium eco-roof that engages the pedestrian platform on the Burnside Bridge. The lifting and folding geometry of the roof abstracts the historic river profile in form. Resting above the podium is a residential tower. The majority of the site is dedicated to the eco-roof podium that serves to manage stormwater. Yard is part of the Portland Development Commission’s Burnside Yard is a 21-story mixed-use The lifting and folding geometry of building that combines residential, the roof abstracts the historic river Bridgehead Master Plan, an effort to rejuvenate commercial, retail, office and parking. profile in form. Resting above the entrepreneurial development in Portland. Side Yard is a 20,000 SF pedestrian podium is a residential tower. The and bicyclist buffer at the foot of the majority of the site is dedicated to development. They are located in a the eco-roof podium that serves to former industrial neighborhood in manage stormwater. Portland Oregon’s central east side, adjacent to the legendary Burnside Yard is part of the Portland Skate Park. Development Commission’s Burnside Bridgehead Master Plan, The building responds to the sloping an effort to revitalize entrepreneurial site and arterial infrastructure with development in Portland. an elevated podium eco-roof that engages the pedestrian platform on the Burnside Bridge.

The site is part of the Burnside adapted to house industrial creative Bridgehead redevelopment effort workspace, the Eastside is the hot and situates itself at the eastern bed for Portland’s maker market. foot of the Burnside Bridge at the Slate expresses the notion that there geographic center of Portland. The is presently no difference in the types Couch street approach and MLK of spaces or the locations where one Boulevard meet at the southeast lives or works. The program inflects corner of the site and impose the needs for light and air to become overlapping, sweeping easements more porous towards the top as the on the site boundary. The building residential units filter in. From both forms a modern re-conceptualization the west view from the city, or the of the historic warehouse buildings east approach, the facades create that make up the Industrial Eastside a framework of activities- episodic sanctuary, which has experienced an views that collage to form a hive of organized transformation from old activity. Slate is conceived of as an industry to new. With its collection of open matrix framework for living, historic warehouse that have been working and socializing.

Designed for the lumber baron and major axes; the west-east axis, which civic patron Aubrey Watzek when runs from the courtyard through the John Yeon was just 26 years old, the living room and culminates with a Watzek House instantly became spectacular view of Mt. Hood through an icon for bold, new regional the living room windows, and a interpretations of the Modernist north-south axis that runs from the movement. The Museum of Modern dining room, through the entrance Art published the home in its 1939 hall, and culminates in the living 10th anniversary book, Art of Our room. The service wing flanks the Time, with Le Corbusier’s Villa courtyard on the north side, and the Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright’s bedroom wing flanks the south side. Jacobs House. Built from a veritable A garden wall and covered porch symphony of regional woods and flank the courtyard on the west side, inventive distillations of historical and connect the garage to the rest motifs, Yeon described the design as of the house. The interior spaces “a sequence of revelations.” It was include the large living room, library, Yeon’s intention to make the house guest room, dining room, two formal a part of the landscape and not an bedrooms, two servants’ bedrooms, imposition upon it. kitchen, pantry, five bathrooms, and a large basement. The house is U-shaped, centered around a formal courtyard, with two

This house was originally designed currently lives in the house with his by Pietro Belluschi for a couple wife, Marti. Anthony has undertaken in the late 1940s. Later, having a very faithful restoration together returned from his position as Dean with several carefully considered of the School of Architecture at MIT, additions. The house offers stunning Belluschi purchased it for himself views of downtown Portland and the and his wife, living there until he Cascades to the east together with a passed away in 1994. Later his son very private outdoor space to the rear. Anthony, a practicing architect Tony has added a 750 SF guest suite in Chicago, acquired the house to the house as well as at the back of and moved to Portland, where he the property, a small retreat.

The Council Crest Residence is a a threshold between the quiet renovation and addition to an early residential neighborhood and 1950s house built for inventor the dramatic view over the city of Karl Kurz, whose work included Portland and landscape beyond. stereoscopic cameras and projectors. Within the existing footprint, the main Designed by prominent local floor living spaces were completely architect Roscoe Hemenway, the remodeled. Raised ceilings and new house was built with a traditional windows create open, light filled ranch exterior and a mid-century spaces. An upper floor was added modern interior. Approached from within the original profile creating a a small neighborhood park, the master suite, study, and south facing home was re-clad maintaining deck. Space flows freely around its welcoming scale, with privacy a central core while continuous obtained through thoughtful clerestory windows reinforce the placement of translucent glass, sense of openness and expansion as clerestory windows, and a stone the roof and wall planes extend to the screen wall. The original entry was exterior. maintained as a glass aperture,

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Dining Recommendations

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DOWNTOWN NEL CENTRO LARDO PEARL DISTRICT Hotel Modera 1205 SW Washington IMPERIAL MEDITERRANEAN EXPLORATION COMPANY 515 SW Clay St 503 241-2490 Located in Hotel Lucia 503 484-1099 333 NW 13th Ave 503 228-7222 A hip sandwich spot with great bites 503-222-0906 Part of the conversion of an old like the Pork Meatball Banh Mi, one of Owned by Vitaley Paley, a well motor hotel into a sophisticated, Portland’s best sandwiches. Next door Part of Chef John Gorham’s stable of know Portland Chef, Imperial urban, hip hotel, Nel Centro serves is Grassi from the same owners, a low restaurants, this one focuses on the serves American dishes with local a wide range of dishes with a bit key minimal pasta joint. food of Israel and Palestine by way ingredients as the star of a Mediterranean flavor. The bar of Greece. The flavors are bold and the preparations spot on. Be aware and restaurant are cool and the TASTY & ALDER HIGGINS exterior courtyard is a fabulous that the food comes out as each dish 580 SW 12th Ave is finished not as standard courses. 1239 SW Broadway respite from the urban buzz. (by the 503 621-9251 This encourages sharing and the 503 222-9070 same architects and restaurateur as Altabira where our final meal will be dishes are all designed to allow that Part of the John Gorham empire held for the conference) to happen. Chef Greg Higgins is known for serving an eclectic mix of dishes the quality of his ingredients and starting with daily brunch. preparations. He grows many of the JAKES OVEN & SHAKER items he uses and makes his own 1134 NW Everett 401 SW 12th Ave BIJOU CAFE charcuterie. His food is focused on 503-226-1419 503-241-1600 the Pacific Northwest, highlighting 132 SW 3rd Ave 503-222-3187 the ingredients and Jakes is one of Portland’s oldest Casual pizza from the Owner of the place. restaurants and a classic. While it Nostrana. Go to spot for breakfast served all day is no longer locally owned the food long. Casual, friendly and a favorite of remains consistently good and the IRVING STREET KITCHEN Portland Architects. location and vibe are still very cool. 701 NW 13th Ave 503-343-9440 CLYDE COMMONS

1014 SW Stark Northwest style cooking with a 503-228-3333 southern bent in an old industrial building. Great outdoor dining if the Trendsetting tavern with communal weather permits. Open for lunch tables and handcrafted cocktails and and dinner. local fare.

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DESCHUTES BREWERY PORTLAND SOUTHEAST THE LOYAL LEGION SE DIVISION PUBLIC HOUSE 710 SE 6th Ave This area has been undergoing a NOSTRANA 210 NW 11th Ave 503-235-8272 housing and food renaissance over 503-296-4906 1401 SE Morrison the past 5+ years. New housing 503-234-2427 This cash only bar has 90 taps of all projects by Works Partnership and Portland brewery outpost of the Bend Oregon beer and sausage from the Hacker among others. based Deschutes Brewery. Good pub Chef Cathy Whims has an excellent legendary Olympia Provisions. Food is food, lively atmosphere and crowds reputation and has been nominated okay, but it’s the beer that brings you AVA GENES all day long. for a James Beard Award several here. A couple of doors down from AMERICAN LOCAL BAR AVIGNON years running. Nostrana is northern Trifecta Tavern. ROE 10 BARREL BREWING Italian in spirit with great pizzas. Roast chicken and a variation on THE WOODSMAN TAVERN 1411 NW Flanders RENATA the traditional Caesar Salad using 503-224-1700 Radicchio that is outstanding. The 626 SE Main St NORTH WILLIAMS AVENUE former grocery store has been 503-954-2708 Another Portland outpost of a Bend Another old Portland neighborhood transformed but retains the original based brewery. More good pub food in the midst of serious gentrification. bowstring trusses and is open and Upscale Italian fare from two with great salads. A rooftop deck for Mixed use office/retail/housing light filled. veterans of The French Laundry. 2015 good weather and a broad selection projects are in place or underway, restaurant of the year from the local of beer. especially near the intersection of N newspaper. TRIFECTA TAVERN Fremont and N Williams Ave. 726 SE 6th Ave OLYMPIA PROVISIONS LINCOLN 503-841-6675 EAT, AN OYSTER BAR 107 SE Washington St TASTY & SONS 503-954-3663 Owned by master baker and TORO BRAVO cookbook author, Ken Forkish, the red booths suggest the sophisticated A citadel of preserved meats tavern food that is being served with a national reputation. The here. Dishes like roasted cauliflower menu is varied and not focused with radicchio, pickled sour cherries, solely on meat. farro and a tangy southeast Asian sauce, as well as a broad selection of Oysters raise the bar significantly. Probably the best burger in town features pimento cheese.

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