From the past month, readers voted for the saddest Portland restaurant closing of 2015, and the results are in. It was close, but most of your stomachs are growling for Grüner, chef Chris Israel's Middle European restaurant, having featured dishes from Eastern France to Austria. To honor Grüner, below are highlights from the West End restaurant's six-year run.
(Disclaimer: Several other restaurants announced they were closing after we'd started the poll, and judging from the response on Twitter an Facebook, they were definitely contenders for Saddest Restaurant Closure of 2015. They were: Lucky Strike, Hokusei (who is holding a pop-up this weekend), Renard, and The Foggy Notion.)