Produce Row Café

Produce Row Café, or Produce Row, is a restaurant and craft beer bar in Portland, Oregon's Buckman neighborhood, in the United States.

Produce Row Café
The restaurant's exterior in 2020
Restaurant information
Food typePacific Northwest[1]
Street address204 Southeast Oak Street
CityPortland
CountyMultnomah
StateOregon
Postal/ZIP Code97212
CountryUnited States
Coordinates

Description

In 2016, Martin Cizmar of Willamette Week wrote, "Before it closed in 2014, Produce Row was a 40-year tradition of beer and music—home to multiple generations of Portland's music scene, going from the de facto homebase of Portland's pre-millennial indie-rock crowd to an unlikely IDM/EDM hang in the 2000s, before being revamped in 2008 into a New Portland beer hall and unlikely patio DJ hub—hosting international hip-hop night the Do-Over."[2]

History
Signage for the cafe in 2017

The building was built in 1951 and opened as a breakfast café for produce dockworkers in 1953; it was also a barbershop at one point.[3] Produce Row originally opened in 1953 as a breakfast café for the produce dockworkers.[4]

Mike McMenamin had worked as a sandwich maker in college and was interested in a career in the food industry; after graduating from Oregon State University with a degree in political science in 1974, he and two college friends bought the landmark Produce Row Café, which was Portland's warehouse and wholesale district.[5] The brothers sold “The Row” to the employees in 1978.[6]

It was purchased by Alan Davis in the 2000s. In 2014, Produce Row closed after operating for more than forty years.[7][8]

In 2015, Davis sold Produce Row to Josh Johnston and James Hall, who reopened the restaurant and bar in May 2015.[9]

References
  1. https://www.pdxmonthly.com/restaurants/produce-row-cafe
  2. https://www.wweek.com/bars/2016/05/10/produce-row-cafe/
  3. "Produce Row Cafe: Rebirth of the cool". Lost Oregon. 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  4. "Produce Row Cafe | Willamette Week". www.wweek.com. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  5. "Vision and Versatility: The Story of McMenamins". Spirited Magazine. 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  6. "Thebeerchaser". Thebeerchaser. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  7. "Produce Row Cafe closing after 40 years in SE Portland". The Oregonian. 2014-09-02. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  8. "Produce Row Cafe owner says shuttered bar 'might go on,' but not on his watch". The Oregonian. 2014-09-05. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  9. "Southeast Portland's Produce Row to reopen in May". The Oregonian. 2015-04-09. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
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