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Via Tribunali’s Long-Awaited Portland Outpost Opens Next Week

A Seattle standard heads south.

Posted by: Allecia Vermillion on Nov 09, 2011 at 02:15PM 0 Comments

Via Tribunali Portland. Photo via Facebook.

Via Tribunali is about to become an official Seattle export: The Neapolitan pizza chainlet has announced a November 15 opening date for its downtown Portland location.

According to the press materials, the pizzeria will be the first in the city certified by the Associazione Verace Pizzeria Napoletana, the official arbiter of legit Neapolitan pies. Tribunali owner Mike McConnell has teamed up with Portland restaurateur Bruce Carey (the guy behind Rose City notables like Bluehour) as well as Presidents of the United States of America drummer Jason Finn. What, you were expecting someone from The Shins?

The pizzeria was first announced in early 2010, but suffered enough delays that Eater Portland recently described Tribunali’s opening as the “big ol’ question mark of this year.” The pizzeria’s also aiming to go bicoastal; the Via Tribunali website says the Manhattan location will open January 2, 2012.

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I Heart Papa Haydn in Portland

Where is Seattle’s version?

Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on May 11, 2009 at 10:00AM 2 Comments

Saturday found me midnight-noshing at Papa Haydn, Portland’s beloved longtime late-night dessert stop.

My God, the cassata cake! The lemon curd tart! The berry cobbler with vanilla ice cream! The densest, most I’m-never-gonna-sleep-tonight-but-I-don’t-care bourbon ball, dusted with cocoa and topped with a chocolate-covered espresso bean.

We sipped espresso and good Port, and wondered where was Seattle’s version of this most civilized place to cap an evening. No booze, if memory serves, at Simply Desserts in Fremont. Not much dessert variety beyond chocolate at Dilettante.

Where’s my pretty little crowded sweet stop for 11pm on a Saturday night? Papa Haydn…come north!

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