You can dine out every night of the week in Portland and confine yourself to the upper echelons of every new restaurant that has opened recently. This week alone two pivotal establishments have debuted: the sumptuous Tempo Dulu at the Danforth Inn and Evo, located at the base of the Hyatt Place Hotel on Fore Street. (The latter is not, however, a “hotel restaurant” as described in a recent post on a food site but rather merely a leased retail space at the streetside corner of the hotel that was transformed into a stunning two-level dining room.)
The dining room at 555 at last year’s Christmas dinner; a quiet corner table is a coveted spot in the dining room
Still the baubles of Portland’s increasingly frothy world of fine dining are on a magnanimous tear. More than ever, perhaps, mightn’t it behoove one to pay homage to the core posts of dining in the city, the ones that made our mini-metropolis into a national destination for foodie obsessives?
