Chef Jobie Bailey Leaves the Nonna Kitchen:
After four years working at Dayna McErlean's Italian kitchen DOC, and later, setting the foundation for its casual sister Nonna, chef Jobie Bailey has left the mini-empire: McErlean confirms that Bailey has left the Nonna kitchen "to pursue new culinary adventures." Current DOC chefs Brian Scibetta and Jordan Lee will take over the menu at Nonna, where they plan to add "new seasonal pizzas" and...
PAM's Art & Beer Event; DOC's Summer Menu Switchup:
DOWNTOWN— The Portland Art Museum toasts Portland Beer Week with a special event pairing pours and paintings: Art & Beer: The Drunken Cobbler will bring five breweries — Widmer, Breakside Brewery, Ecliptic Brewing, Humble Brewing, and Laurelwood — into the museum to talk about Jean-Baptiste Greuze's 18th-century painting The Drunken Cobbler. Each will present a special beer inspired by the...
Nonna's Dayna McErlean Names Her St. Johns Haunts:
Restaurateur and developer Dayna McErlean grew up on Staten Island, NY and moved to Portland in 1995. In 1999, McErlean bought a dilapidated building in the Concordia neighborhood and began the six-year process of gutting, redesigning, and completely rebuilding the site — it's now home to her Japanese izakaya Yakuza. McErlean soon followed that up by building and financing the space that would...
Damewood on Trifecta Tavern; 1.5 Stars for NE's Nonna:
The Mercury's brand-new restaurant critic Andrea Damewood files her first review, and it completes the hat trick of local publications chiming in on Trifecta Tavern. Damewood goes with an horse-race metaphor for her take, bestowing "horse race names" onto dishes and flaunting other betting analogies before deciding Ken Forkish's much-buzzy restaurant is "winning by a nose." Highlights are found...