Located at 2340 NE Sandy, Providore Fine Foods opens today, and in addition to letting you shop for groceries with a glass of wine or beer in-hand, it offers many onsite dining options. Here's what to eat at the new Providore Find Foods.
The Flying Fish Oyster Bar
12 to 7:30 p.m. daily
For years, the sustainably minded Flying Fish Company has operated out of its mobile fish truck and Hawthorne fish shack, and at Providore Fine Foods, it sells local seafood and operates an 8-seat oyster bar, with standing room at a bar along the window, too. Made of Oregon cherry wood, the bar is tucked in the rear of the store and will offer:
- three types of oysters served raw daily. Netarts bay oysters, delivered to Flying Fish the same day they are harvested by Nevor Shellfish, start at $2.
- hot Flying Fish Company smoked salmon served on a cedar plank
- two daily soups (one seafood, one meat)
- bone broth
- one red, one white, and one sparkling wine
- bottled and canned microbrews and one cider
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Arrosto
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily (tentative)
After discovering Italy's rotisserie chicken with their noses on a trip on the Italian Riviera, Providore Fine Foods and Pastaworks co-owners Kevin de Garmo and Kaie Wellman knew they needed to open a Mediterranean-style rotisserie chicken shack. Arrosto, scheduled to open at Providore Fine Foods by the end of the week, sells its chickens and sides through a window onto the street.
You can either take your order home or dig in in the Providore's seating area. Located at the front of the marketplace, the seating area seats around 20, either at two large communal tables or at a bar along the window. Come summer, the garage doors will roll up and the tables will spill out onto the patio.
- Whole, half, and quarter rotisserie chickens. De Garmo says he prefers not to use a brine. "A brine is nice for breast meat, but it can make the rest of the bird soggy." Arrosto salt its chickens; stuffs them with rosemary; and brushes them with rosemary olive oil while cooking.
- Every chicken comes with "crispy fat" roasted potatoes and a salad of wild baby arugula, escarole, and radicchio tossed with pecorino, croutons, and dressing.
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Little T Baker
9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily
With two additional bakery locations in Portland, the local Little T Baker will focus on the following:
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Providore Fine Foods Coffee Bar
9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily
Located behind the Little T Baker station, it exclusively serves Illy Coffee, both in the standard forms and in a few unorthodox, such as:
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