Photography by Stuart Mullenberg

Photography by Stuart Mullenberg

Photography by Stuart Mullenberg

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Type
Italian
Features
Date Night, Dinner, Reservations
Price Scale
$$$
Description

In the neighborhood that birthed Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Duane Sorenson’s ode to Italy, Brooklyn, and the People’s Republic of Portland swings like an indie brasserie. It’s a place to indulge in everything that makes Portland tick, as exacting ingredients, garage-rock scruffiness, shameless Europhilia, cocktail savvy, and Italian wine are reconfigured into a new standard of dining: marble clad, service intensive, and soaring behind what sounds like a director’s cut of iconic rock. Traditional limitations of “rustic” food are erased between the wood-charred breads, vegetable intensity, and grunt-worthy pastas.

Ava Gene's

3377 SE Division St, Portland, OR, 97202
Division/Clinton  •  971-229-0571
Mon-Fri: 5-11 pm Sat-Sun: 4:30-11 pm