The team was approaching the end of its lease at the CORE food cart pod, and instead of staying or even expanding, Mitate will roll out of the pod altogether. Vegan sushi cart Mitate has closed at the end of April. Verdigris was open for eight years, and had its final meal on May 1. He plans to open a new project in Oregon City, though details are scarce at this point.
From Southeast Portland breakfast cafes to North Portland watering holes, these are the restaurants that will permanently close as a result of the coronavirus crisis.Ĭhef and owner Johnny Nunn is leaving Portland, and has sold his celebrated French restaurant Verdigris in the process. Now, more and more business owners are coming forward, announcing that they will not be opening their doors to customers again. Since the beginning of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Oregon, an ominous weight on the food and beverage world has been the potential for permanent closures: Which restaurants will be unable to hold out until the community settled back into normalcy? Which bars will succumb to the overwhelming debt of unpaid rent?
