[UPDATE: Adina is no longer joining Pine Street Market. For a complete update, see the article, "Hotly Anticipated Pine Street Market Names New Restaurants."]
The next tenant at Pine Street Market, the 10,000-square-foot food hall coming to the old Baggage & Carriage Building on SW Second Avenue in November, will be the folks behind Andina, the Pearl District's finer dining Peruvian spot. According to Mike Thelin, the project's culinary curator, that brings the number of named tenants to five. The others are Olympia Provisions, Barista, Hopworks Urban Brewery and a bread and pastries spot by Ken Forkish.
Peter Platt, who runs Andina with his family, says their PSM version will offer lunch, dinner and late night snacks, with a slimmed down menu of Andina favorites and plenty of craft cocktails.
Platt says that the smaller space will allow his kitchen crew to be more playful when it comes to creating dishes, pointing specifically to their ceviche, which will get made with a greater variety of locally sourced seafood once the market opens.
That still leaves about four tenants unnamed, and while Thelin is keeping mum on specifics, he did hint that they're likely going to be a pair of local Asian food concepts, as well as a popular dessert spot and a seafood joint run by a nationally known chef.
And while he's pleased that he's able to help bring this kind of market to town — the first of its kind in these parts — he's especially excited by the building's history, too: He used to frequent the space as a teenager when it was called The Quest, an all-ages dance club.
Back then, he says, the windows were obscured, the room was dark and what decor you could see was of the plywood and spray paint variety.
"I had not idea what a beautiful building it was," he says, and adds that the project's developers, Jean Pierre Veillet, Rob Brewster and David Davies, along with Siteworks Design Build, which is responsible for creating the market's atmosphere, have "really liberated" the space, exposing its tall ceiling, old timber beams and brick. They're also repurposing old beams that couldn't pass the seismic upgrade. Instead, Siteworks will craft those beams into long tables for the market's shared dining space.
It should be interesting to see how well the market will mesh with the neighborhood, which Thelin calls downtown Portland's "last best place."
For now, that corner of Second Avenue's not much of a draw, but with so many offices and agencies within a stone's throw, including those in the Big Pink, Thelin thinks that the market will soon become an anchor in that part of downtown.
Pine Street Market: 126 S.W. Second Ave.; Eventual Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Mondays through Saturdays