"Feast — Portland’s long-running, long-celebrated food festival — is back. After going on an obviously necessary hiatus in 2020, Portland’s large-scale food event will take a different approach, stretching out events throughout the summer. Traditionally, Feast is a weekend-long marathon of bustling food stall events, lavish seated dinners, and raucous official and unofficial after-parties that take over the city. Chefs will trek from countries around the globe to plate tiny bites of brunch, bowls of noodles, and artsy courses in prix-fixe meals, served in abandoned lots, empty restaurants, parking garages, and wedding venues. It is a major blow-out event; however, this year’s version of Feast will be a more intimate take on the big bash, a nod to its origins. Portland Monthly broke the news of the food festival’s return, detailing the specifics of the three main categories of events: Meals served over outdoor movies at Zidell Yards, collaborative meals fundraising for Feed the Mass, and live podcast recordings. Feast’s Mike Thelin and Emily Crowley told the magazine they hoped the festival could recreate some of the intimacy of the original event, which will hit its 10-year anniversary next year. “We said internally, ‘the city needs a hug,’” Crowley told Eater Portland. “It’s so important for our city right now, a reminder that we are a community.”" - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
