Luce

P M I is located at 2137 E Burnside St, Portland, OR. This location is in the Buckman neighborhood..

Call it a grocery, call it a restaurant, I don't care what you call it . Just don 't call me late for dinner or lunch at this southeast treasure.

Partake of Italian small plates and wine at this charming E. Burnside Street specialty market-meets-trattoria. Go with friends so you can order all the $2 antipasti bites to share. Good pasta, relaxed service.

Kelley Swenson started his very first shift behind a bar just as so many young industry people do: the "real" bartender cut his hand on a broken wine glass, so Swenson was up to take his spot. And with a Mr. Boston Bartender book as his guide, he'd found his calling. "At that time, it was a really unique world, with guys smoking cigarettes on extensions and drinking champagne cocktails,"...

E. BURNSIDE—Luce, one of Bon Appetit's 10 Best New Restaurants in America in 2012, will welcome Nancy Singleton Hachisu for a dinner on April 16 at 7p.m. Chef John Taboada will cook a five-courser taken from Singleton Hachisu's cookbook, Japanese Farm Food (a favorite of Alice Waters), while Hachisu intimately discusses her approach to food with guests. This dinner is $45, plus an optional $30...

Partake of Italian small plates and wine at this charming E. Burnside Street specialty market-meets-trattoria. Go with friends so you can order all the $2 antipasti bites to share. Good pasta, relaxed service.

Call it a grocery, call it a restaurant, I don't care what you call it . Just don 't call me late for dinner or lunch at this southeast treasure.

The first thing that strikes you about Luce as you enter is the large cabinet behind the bar, stocked with fine wine and beer. The next thing that strikes is how the picture-perfect the restaurant is: white washed interiors, checkered tiles and the friendly staff behind the counter. It's like a postcard of an Italian cafe. The food too is presented just as attractively and tastes like heaven....