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.
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.
If you are attending any of the 3 left for this weekend, essential packing tips
- 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
