Moore Food & Company in Moore Alley

August 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Hidden a bit down a little alley between businesses on a block on SE Division, you may discover a little refuge of a food cart or two with an alfresco dining patio. The one anchored by duo family owned Moore Coffee and Moore Food & Company in Moore Alley, is a semi-hidden gem that feels like a living room while still being an outdoor space. There are the hanging lights. The rugs. The cushioned chair. The barber chair. The chessboard. The fire pit. The map of Middle Earth. The TMNT Raphael hanging out where the trays of food come from Moore Food & Co. The display of Crustables and mini-cereal boxes by the coffee van. the lure of Andy Capp’s hot fries. It feels like hanging out at your friend’s house with the interesting roommates when you are just out of college, laid back and comfortable and cool that everyone thinks of as your friend group’s base.
Moore Food & Company has set up a cool dining area that feels like hanging out at your friend's house when you are 22 or 23 Moore Food & Company has set up a cool dining area that feels like hanging out at your friend's house when you are 22 or 23 Moore Food & Company has set up a cool dining area that feels like hanging out at your friend's house when you are 22 or 23 Moore Food & Company has set up a cool dining area that feels like hanging out at your friend's house when you are 22 or 23 Moore Food & Company has set up a cool dining area that feels like hanging out at your friend's house when you are 22 or 23 Moore Food & Company has set up a cool dining area that feels like hanging out at your friend's house when you are 22 or 23

You are welcome to hang out or grab and go as early as 7am on Thursdays-Mondays when Moore Coffee (closed Tu/Wed but check their Instagram for their hours) helps you get your day going with espresso, americanos, cappuccino, latte, regular or iced coffee, or tea or chai, or Liquid Death water. Nothing fancy here, simple and to the point to get you fueled and going.

You can get pastries from Crema Bakery in the little case and the coffee is from Terrain Coffee Project. Oh all your beverages are coming from a 1978 VW Bus, pretty dope. Check their instagram or Sunday Bread Project because you may be lucky and on a first come first serve basis be able to enjoy this bagel and bread pop-up on select days.
Moore Coffee serves up Crema Bakery pastries along with Terrain Coffee Project coffee - basic coffee drinks, no fancy frills here You can sometimes find Sunday Bread Project, a popup of bagels and bread, check her instagram for the time and place

For lunch and beyond, the main food cart Moore & Food Company begins from 12-9 or 10 (8pm Sun, closed Mon/Tu) with what they dub on their menu “The Sh!t” or “Other Sh!t” or “Kid Stuff” along with a bar offering 8 taps of beer or cider, a couple cans and wine and a michelada. The main section of the menu seems to be highlighting the cheesesteaks, which you can order with the regular steak meat or with chicken (or buffalo chicken style) on the gold standard of Cheesesteak, an Amoroso roll. You can get your cheesesteak with American, Provolone, Swiss, or Kraft Cheese Whiz.

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Feast Flicks: Republica and Like Water for Chocolate

July 30, 2021 by Leave a Comment

About last night at the Feast Portland first event for Summer of Feast – Feast Flicks! This year Feast Portland looks a little different for 2021 (after a break during 2020) with adjustments based on the pandemic. This was the first event of the 3 different kinds they are doing – Feast Flicks with dinner and a movie, “family reunions” that have the more typical stations from different chefs that you walk around, and a Claima Stories with interviews and cocktails. This first of two Feast Flicks I am attending was featuring Republica doing it all with two welcome cocktails and dinner including the legendary handmade masa tortillas and complex moles and dessert, and the movie pairing is the classic “Water for Chocolate” courtesy of Hollywood Theater.
The Lot Zidell yards was the location for Feast Portland's Dinner and a Movie event, Feast Flicks

Everyone was sitting in pods of 2 and 4 at the outdoor venue The Lot At Zidell Yards which has a great space with spacing and clearly marked areas for social distancing and is doing other events as well from movies to music and more. The only lines were to get in where we got a wrist band, analog check-in by name to confirm the pod number, bag check, and scan of the QR code on the purchased ticket, and then also maybe a quickly moving line to grab a cocktail. Otherwise the courses came served to your pod seating.
The Lot Zidell yards was the location for Feast Portland's Dinner and a Movie event, Feast Flicks The Lot Zidell yards was the location for Feast Portland's Dinner and a Movie event, Feast Flicks The Lot Zidell yards was the location for Feast Portland's Dinner and a Movie event, Feast Flicks The Lot Zidell yards was the location for Feast Portland's Dinner and a Movie event, Feast Flicks The Lot Zidell yards was the location for Feast Portland's Dinner and a Movie event, Feast Flicks

If you are attending any of the 3 left for this weekend, essential packing tips
The Lot Zidell yards was the location for Feast Portland's Dinner and a Movie event, Feast Flicks

  • It’s a dusty, gravel and rock lot so wear flat shoes because the ground is not flat
  • Bring an empty water bottle – they have water stations to fill them with on the right side
  • Sunscreen!
  • Summer hats to block your face from the sun!
  • Bring a personal umbrella since it is unshaded at your pod. That being said, you don’t have to go to your pod right away – there is a slight shade and tented area by the welcome drinks
  • Plenty of restroom facilities at a pod of Honey Buckets on the right side
  • On the left side is the bar where you can get more beverages beyond the welcome cocktail and the included wine bottle with your dinner
  • You can never have too many extra napkins, or even wetnaps
  • I brought a tote which I used to carry my unfinished wine bottle back home – it’s a screw top so no worries about putting any cork back in
  • Once the sun goes down it may get a little cool so you may want a very very light cardigan. But it’s also a summer heat wave weekend again so it doesn’t really drop much, only into 70F.
  • Meanwhile while the sun is up, bring a fan! I had a regular fan you have to fan yourself, but I saw others with little portable battery fans
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YāYā Portland bringing Chinese barbecue to NE Alberta

July 27, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Chinese barbecue in Portland has generally been somewhat of an inside track – you had to know which place (and they were all different) for your crispy roast pork fix, your Cantonese roast duck, for good char siu. The locations for these Chinese BBQ treasures were out far from the Portland city core – often in strip malls in the East Portland (“New Chinatown” past SE 82nd) or Westside suburbs, from your Asian owned restaurant or grocery with non-descript storefronts to procure your goal protein. There is no central Chinatown that you would head towards like in New York, San Fran, Chicago, etc. where you explore a street of businesses looking for the tell tale hanging duck and pork on hooks in a window. Recently a joint venture from restaurateur Micah Camden (who has also brought Portland the famed Blue Star Donuts, Boxer Ramen, Super Deluxe, Little Chickpea, Bae’s Chicken, Rock Paper Fish, and formerly Little Big Burger) and lead by chef Steven Chin has opened. Chinese BBQ in Portland now has a very accessible, and very high quality, place that anyone and everyone can trust for some easy Chinese barbecue fix, with their venture YāYā Portland (Yā is duck in Mandarin).
YāYā Portland bringing accessible Chinese barbecue in Portland YāYā Portland bringing accessible Chinese barbecue in Portland - Char siu pork is thick cut bbq roasted pork

Steven Chin’s background in Chinese barbecue started with a childhood in New York and with his grandparent’s grocery with a bbq station in Chinatown (a photo of his grandfather and store is featured on the YāYā Portland wall). Chinese BBQ was further refined with mentorship with his friend and legend Martin Yan, famously known for the Yan Can Cook show that I remember watching all the time, one of the few representations of a face like mine on TV back then. He has combined tradition from those learnings also with American business practices such that many American bbq places use where they prep and bbq the meats up to a certain level then finish based on the incoming orders.
YāYā Portland bringing accessible Chinese barbecue in Portland - one of the partners is Steven Chin. Steven Chin's background in Chinese barbecue started with a childhood in New York and Cantonese barbecue with his grandparent's grocery with a bbq station in Chinatown YāYā Portland bringing accessible Chinese barbecue in Portland - one of the partners is Steven Chin. Steven Chin's background in Chinese barbecue started with a childhood in New York and Cantonese barbecue with his grandparent's grocery with a bbq station in Chinatown

The YāYā Portland storefront on NE Alberta Avenue is a takeout only operation, so no indoor seating or service, though there are some picnic tables outside under a shady tree and a patio covering overhead if you want to eat it immediately. You can order online for pickup from their website YāYā Portland, or via a few delivery apps. Chinese BBQ is not usually served hot, so this is perfect for grabbing to take home and can survive a delivery time window. Usually you buy Chinese barbecue meats by the pound but the orders from YāYā Portland already come on white rice, ready to eat.
YāYā Portland bringing accessible Chinese barbecue in Portland YāYā Portland bringing accessible Chinese barbecue in Portland YāYā Portland bringing accessible Chinese barbecue in Portland YāYā Portland bringing accessible Chinese barbecue in Portland YāYā Portland bringing accessible Chinese barbecue in Portland

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Nevør Shellfish Farms Seafood Shack

July 23, 2021 by Leave a Comment

One of the unfortunate casualties of the pandemic was the closure of Erizo, a multicourse chef’s menu restaurant in Portland offering sustainable seafood that was local to the Oregon Coast(sometimes caught by the chefs, usually purchased direct from the fishermen) and that included highlighting bycatch and invasive species. The space was small with only ~20 seats, and included close service in telling the stories of the sea. I did get to dine there one time before the restaurant that made the 2019 Eater The 16 Best New Restaurants in America closed. Good news though, as Jacob Harth and his team have taken up the mantle from Olympia Oyster Bar to pop up as a seafood shack at Nevør Shellfish Farm in Netarts in 2020 and continuing this year on Fridays-Sundays 12-5 pm with a “Parking Lot Soup” menu. During my super low-tide getaway, I made sure to stop at the Nevør Shellfish Farms Seafood Shack, and here’s a look!
Nevør Shellfish Farms Seafood Shack popup on Fridays through Sunday with Jacob Harth Nevør Shellfish Farms Seafood Shack popup on Fridays through Sunday with Jacob Harth Nevør Shellfish Farms Seafood Shack popup on Fridays through Sunday with Jacob Harth

The menu is everchanging based on what is available and fresh every weekend, though some themes – raw on the half shell, oysters bbq’d over fire, oyster skewers, seafood on thick bread varying from sardine to eel to if you’re lucky uni, soup, a crudo, a ceviche. Nothing except seafood, and currently no beverages so bring your own libations. They have a handful of picnic tables, as well as some benches and barrels for stand-up quick dining if you want to dine al fresco here in the air of Netarts Bay instead of the car. A port a potty is available, but no regular washroom or running water, so you might consider some wetnaps too. Some parking is available in their lot, or pull over alongside Netarts Bay road.
Nevør Shellfish Farms Seafood Shack popup on Fridays through Sunday with Jacob Harth Nevør Shellfish Farms Seafood Shack popup on Fridays through Sunday with Jacob Harth

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Visiting Neskowin Ghost Forest at Super Low Tide

July 14, 2021 by Leave a Comment

As mentioned in my previous post, there are a few days, for a few set months, every year where you can experience super low tide. In these cases, the super low tide, also called minus tide, is often in the negative 1.5-2 foot range, revealing more then usual from what is usually hidden by the sea. These super low tides tend to occur across a 3-4 days during those few set months. In June, the first day of super low tide I spent exploring the sea stacks and tidepools by Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, as covered in detail before along with the other 24 hours I spent in the area. For the next super low tide, the plan was visiting Neskowin Ghost Forest.
Neskowin Ghost Forest in the early foggy morning at Neskowin Beach Neskowin Ghost Forest in the early foggy morning at Neskowin Beach Neskowin Ghost Forest in the early foggy morning at Neskowin Beach Neskowin Ghost Forest in the early foggy morning at Neskowin Beach Neskowin Ghost Forest in the early foggy morning at Neskowin Beach Neskowin Ghost Forest in the early foggy morning at Neskowin Beach

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Neskowin Ghost Forest is located at Neskowin Beach in Neskowin. For visiting Neskowin Ghost Forest at super low tide, that may be early in the morning (around 7 am during my visit). Knowing that you want to be there at least an hour or so before that lowest point, you may want to stay over in Neskowin, or Lincoln City, or Pacific City, if you want to stay conveniently close and save the 2 hour drive from Portland. But, it is possible to make this a day trip too.

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