"Longstanding Portland chef Erik Van Kley runs the kitchen at this wine bar and restaurant, serving dishes at the same caliber as the ones he served at the late, great Taylor Railworks. Van Kley dots gorgeous plates of burrata with rotating accompaniments (think: warm weather berries and cool weather apples), tosses tagliatelle with clams and ramen brown butter, and pairs bavette steaks with Calabrian chile butter and spaetzle. The wine list, of course, is similarly special, with some of the prettiest wines coming out of France and the Willamette Valley." - Thom Hilton