Karen Brooks digs into the rise of sobriety among Portland’s top chefs, and how their commitment is setting the table for a new kitchen culture, featuring James Beard Award winning Chef Gabriel Rucker of Le Pigeon, Little Bird, and Canard.
Kim Malek Named to Nation Restaurant News' 2019 Power List
Kim Malek, co-founder of Salt & Straw, is now a member of Nation Restaurant News’ 2019 Power List! The annual NRN Power List is the definitive list of people setting foodservice trends today and shaping them for tomorrow. Since its 2011 founding in Portland, Ore. Salt & Straw has grown to 17 scoop shops across 6 cities, plus Wiz Bang Bar, a soft-serve shop also in Portland. Congratulations to Kim on this well-deserved honor.
Good Morning America Shares How to Make Iconic Foods From Classic Christmas Movies
Tyler Malek, the founder of the gourmet artisanal ice cream shop Salt & Straw, and his team created five delicious holiday-inspired flavors that a grown-up Kevin McAllister would definitely use for a modern ice cream sundae: Peppermint bark cocoa, apple brandy and pecan pie, gingerbread cookie dough and sugar plum fairy -- made with plum jam and marzipan -- would be as delicious in a cup, cone or sundae any time this season.
The Today Show Shares this season's best food gifts for any home chef
Salt & Straw’s Seasonal Pints Club is a monthly recurring delivery of Salt & Straw’s newest flavors delivered straight to your door. A perfect gift for the person who has everything, but doesn’t have 60 different flavors of ice cream!
Thrillist Shares The 23 Best Indian Restaurants in the Country
Half the fun of Bollywood Theater, one of Portland’s top Indian restaurants, is the space which transports you to India without the spendy plane ticket or 15-hour flight.
Men's Journal Shares How Five Chefs in Recovery Live One Day at a Time
Gabriel Rucker, the Portland chef and restaurateur behind Le Pigeon, Little Bird, and Canard just celebrated his 5th anniversary of sobriety. “I don’t want to be the poster boy for sobriety in my industry. But I did realize that I could be a good example. I could be a bad example, I could be no example or I could be a good example, and I figured I might as well be a good example.”
Thrillist's Best New Restaurants 2018
Canard, which means "duck" in French and sticks to Rucker’s bird-as-restaurant-names theme, is Rucker’s more casual concept that serves food for 16 hours a day. “If you’re awake and want to eat, we are probably open,” says Rucker. Service is laid back and the menu feels like it has been pulled out of the brain of a stoner who aced culinary school. Everything here is, quite simply, fun.
Food & Wine Shares Where to Get the Best Breakfast in Every State
Oregon’s obsession with breakfast has famously led them—well, specifically Portland—in some fascinating directions, more recently; not many cities would be lucky enough to have a restaurant like Canard, where they serve you chilled oysters, and stacks of fluffy cakes topped with rich duck gravy, a fried duck egg, and if you’re feeling stupid, seared foie gras, followed up with a salted caramel cream-filled Paris Brest, from 8 o’clock in the everloving morning, all week long and many times over on Sundays. Then again, not many cities are lucky enough to have Gabriel Rucker on board—this is his doing, Rucker, of the (oh look, full circle) James Beard award, of Le Pigeon and Little Bird, two of Portland’s top restaurants. Feels like now there’s a third.
CHERRY BOMBE ANNOUNCES THE CHERRY BOMB 100 INCLUDING CO-FOUNDER AND CEO KIM MALEK OF SALT & STRAW AND CHEF/OWNER NAOMI POMEROY OF BEAST
The Cherry Bombe 100 is more than a list. It’s a celebration of the women who inspire us every day with their creativity, energy, humanity, and hard work.
Portland Monthly Names Oui! Wine Bar + Restaurant at the Southeast Wine Collective one of Portland's Best New Restaurants of 2018
Nearly a year in, the newly dubbed Oui! Wine Bar at Southeast Wine Collective has found its niche. It’s a small haven of bottles and barrels with a bold roller coaster of dishes and unexpected pours that truly fit the food.
Food & Wine Shares How Portland's Southeast Wine Collective Is Pioneering the City's Urban Wine Scene
It's like an incubator and food hall for winemaking, and you're probably going to want to hang out there.
Food & Wine Highlights the 10 Best Urban Wineries in the Country
Founded in 2010 by Kate Norris and Thomas Monroe, Division Winemaking Co. sources fruit from both Oregon and Washington states, crafting wines from a handful of varieties, all produced with a hands-off, minimal manipulation mentality in the cellar. Reflecting their passion for sustainable viticulture, many of the vineyards Norris and Monroe choose to work with are certified organic and/or biodynamic. Inside every finished bottle, you'll also find wine inspired by the regions of France, where the duo first studied winemaking.
Inc. Highlights Female Founder entrepreneurs that are challenging the norms across industries
With its steady growth--the nine-year-old company has 14 shops and three on the way--Malek makes sure to provide a long-term career development path for her staff. "That people part is everything," says Malek. "It's not only your standards and how you execute them, but also carrying your culture forward."
Portland Monthly Names Canard Restaurant of the Year 2018
With his third restaurant, famed Le Pigeon chef Gabriel Rucker proves he’s still an original.
SevenFifty Daily Shares the Management Genius of Le Pigeon, Little Bird and Canard partner and wine director Andy Fortgang
The prodigal New York somm turned Portland restaurateur has helped shape the careers of wine professionals on both coasts.
Food & Wine Shares Gabriel Rucker's story on being sober and finding clarity as a leader in his restaurant and in the industry
The transition has provided clarity and better ability for me to manage people, it’s a lot less hectic for employees. A lot of people that have stayed on through all those changes, I think are really relieved. And, that's probably why they're still here is because it can be fun to work in a hard-partying place and to have sure, that's fun, but, at the end of the day people come to work. They want consistency, direction and a supportive space.
The Oregonian Names Canard 2018 Restaurant of the Year
Chef Gabriel Rucker and sommelier Andy Fortgang built an all-day wine bar and restaurant with the look of a smart Parisian cave à manger and the kind of creative cooking found at the new generation of French restaurants currently spreading from the City of Lights to cities across America.
Le Pigeon's Gabriel Rucker and Other Participating Chefs Open Up to Bon Appetit's Healthyish On Why Hosting a Zero Proof Dinner is so Important to them
Sean Brock, Gregory Gourdet, Gabriel Rucker, Evan Zimmerman, Michael Solomonov, and Andrew Zimmern on why they're hosting a booze-free dinner.
Forbes Shares 12 Rosés Worth Drinking Over Labor Day Weekend
Anne Amie Vineyards Rosé of Pinot Gris 2017 - Don’t let the dark color of this rosé scare you off. It is supremely complex and food-friendly, bursting with ripe apricot fruit, tangy tangerine, and juicy cherries, accented with salted almonds, and ending in a long, textured finish.
The Boston Globe Highlights Some of Oregon's Most Talented Winemakers Crafting an Array of Delicious Pours from Grapes You May Not Expect
A roundup of Oregon wines would not be complete without mentioning Kate Norris, co-owner and co-winemaker of Division Winemaking Co. “I love Oregon pinot, and I also love that there is room in our wine culture and wine community here to explore other varietals,” says Norris. “We never stop adventuring and pioneering.”