meliorapdx

Lamb Tartare

- lamb
- sheep's cheese
- cherries braised in red wine and sumac
-carta di musica cocoa cracker
-pickled deliciousness made into a tartare sauce

On the menu tomorrow through next week :)

Fluke Crudo

-Rhubarb and fermented 2022 blueberries
-Cherry Bomb
-Radish

Now until tonight :)

Walk in's welcome!

New Years Reservations now open!!

5 course menu (Vegetarian friendly menu available!)

$74/person

We're hosting dinners on 12/30 and 12/31 at 42nd and Wygant (former Hissyfit/Yonder space).

Availability between 5pm to 8pm both nights.

Link in our profile to reservations, or check out our website meliorapastapdx.com

We're so excited to share that reservations are live for our Winter Pop-Ups at the former Hissyfit Space!!

There's a link in our profile page to find a reservation for this Friday and Saturday night 😋

We will be popping up at 42nd and Wygant in NE Portland now through February! We're bringing back the tasting menu from when we started the cart and offering a prix-fixe menu most nights. We're also looking at partnering with other pop-ups for drinks, and there's like no doubt we'll be doing some themed nights of some variety throughout the next few months :)

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4-Course Prix Fixe Menu for this weekend:

-Oregon Chicory Salad: cranberry, citrus, toasted seed crumble.

-Roasted Chestnut Soup: maple, cinnamon, sage

-Choice of:
Braised Beef Cheek Agnolotti
Or
Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Roasted Mushroom (Vegetarian)

-Salted Honey and Citrus Cake: poached pears, vanilla

$59/person

Vegetarian options available for menus :)

Thank you to for putting together a really unique community-shared restaurant space for us to host these events at Hissyfit!

Hi friends,

We've got some updates on our search for a new space, temporary closure, and our winter pivot (STARTING NEXT FRIDAY 😋).

Meliora Pasta is temporarily closed while we search for a new space.

Although the pod owner is *still* telling us the property has a grace period beyond January for the new regulations, we were just notified by the Health Department that not one property in Multnomah County has an extension beyond the 3 years they've already had.

Over the past 3 weeks we've heard from dozens of pods/cart owners. Most expressed either not knowing about the new laws or being in a pod that won't be making any necessary changes to allow carts to stay.

Work has been done over the past few weeks with the Oregon Health Authority to find solutions for carts soon to be affected. They maintain that they don't want anyone to close. But more than 150 carts in the county will have to if they don't agree to an extension.

People have asked if they can help with the situation, and at this point we'd say consider hitting up the food carts you've been meaning to try this holiday season :)

Perhaps a lunch date at a pod is The holiday gift idea for 2022, no cap.

We know for a fact there are property owners making a decision on whether or not to upgrade their properties for the new rules. Some don't think it's worth it. Let's encourage them with our foot traffic.

Anyways, what if we brought back our tasting menu for a twice a week pop-up until we're able to move to a new cart space?

Winter Pop-Up Series at announcement tomorrow 🥂

[Oh and Jim can't run this one alone (said something about his mid-30s, planter fascists (sp?), it's-like-a-whole-restaurant-are-you-kidding...), so good thing will be full-time Meliora Pasta starting with these pop-ups 🧡]

Hi friends,

We recently learned that our current location will be untenable for us come January 1st due to new regulations for food carts and pods this property will fail to be ready for.

This is a complicated, untimely surprise for us, and at this point we're unsure if we can make a 3rd location for our big little pasta cart happen (we started at Killingsworth but the property was sold a week after we signed a 6 month lease...). We're exploring all avenues to keep this going, including closing for a few months until we can invest in a new location; we intended to be on Alberta for as long as possible. We love this community.

Monday Nights at Meliora will be closed moving forward (including tonight). We will announce our schedule within the next 2 days for the week.

DM us for any reason 🧡

Yours,
Jim and Breckin