Feast Portland

Today via Portland Monthly, we shared the news that our festival would not be returning—not in 2023 and not ever again.

For a lot more detail, please read Karen Brooks' article (www.pdxmonthly.com/eat-and-drink/2022/12/feast-portland-food-festival-canceled) plus a statement from Feast (mailchi.mp/feastportland/futureoffeast).

To everyone on Team Feast, our core collaborators, our friends in the chef and restaurant community, our partners and sponsors, vendors and guests, thank you for believing and investing in our vision.

In 2012, we set out to create a culinary festival that was worthy of the city we loved, valuable to the industry we represented, and relevant in the world of food. Feast succeeded on all counts, and looking back, probably ended when it needed to when our last weekend festival wrapped in 2019.

Looking forward, we may have some surprises to share. And for those of you wondering, we have had fun with our new Feast newsletter, and we plan to keep that going. (So don’t unsubscribe yet!)

Love to all.

Photo: Alan Weiner

The gifting issue of our newsletter drops TOMORROW (12/7). Follow us as we scan around town for a few of our favorite things. We dive deep into the goods at markets like Wellspent Market, Providore Fine Foods, Goodie's Snack Shop, Montelupo Italian Market & The Meadow, as well as gifts from specialty shops like Portland Knife House, and much more. Sign up for the newsletter at mailchi.mp/feastportland/feast-newsletter, and check your inboxes tomorrow morning!

📷: Wellspent Market

Did you catch the latest issue of our newsletter yesterday? If you’re not subscribed yet (which you can do here: bit.ly/FeastNewsletterSignUp).

For this issue, we chatted with our friend Brian McGinn, co-creator & executive producer of Chef's Table, about the Netflix show’s new season, which is all about pizza. We talked about his thoughts on which city has the best pizza, how Chef’s Table came to highlight Portland’s own Lovely’s Fifty Fifty, what restaurants he loved while filming here in Portland, and more.

The issue also features a wonderful overview of the PDX pizza ecosystem by our own Jordan Michelman.

Check it out here: bit.ly/FeastNewsletterIssue8