Taylor Street Kitchen
Sandwich shop · Downtown ·
Deli, grocer, cafe serving pizza, pasta, sandwiches, pastries
Deli, grocer, cafe serving pizza, pasta, sandwiches, pastries
"This charming deli, market, and luncheonette offers a succinct menu of sandwiches, salads, and specials that combine the two. For something green, try the kale Caesar or the lemon poppy Waldorf salad. Sandwich best bets include roast beef, cacio e pepe chicken salad, and egg salad. If a more laid-back lunch is the plan, Taylor Street Kitchen also offers some daytime cocktails like a cold brew martini, an Aperol spritz, and a citrus rosemary gin and tonic." - Rebecca Roland, Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"Chef Althea Grey Potter — formerly of Oui Wine Bar — has taken over the kitchen at this charming downtown Portland deli, market, and luncheonette, and it shows. Those familiar with her work know she loves bold and unending layers of flavor, which appears here in dishes like roasted delicata squash salad, tossed in harissa vinaigrette with sunflower seed dukkah, goat cheese, and pomegranate seeds. Other salads from the case range from potato salad with sheep’s milk feta to red quinoa and carrots with dijon-citrus vinaigrette; they’re best paired with the roast chicken served as a part of Taylor Street’s lunch plate. Otherwise, the cacio e pepe chicken salad, bolstered with sundried tomato pesto, is a standout." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"Conceived as an ambitious market and all-day cafe and opened in November 2021, Taylor Street Kitchen is wide open and airy, deliberately recalling other iconic Portland markets while offering coffee and pastries, lunchtime salads and sandwiches, family-night pizza, date-night wine, and a market that emphasizes Oregon producers. Burmeister assembled a small team of established local talent—baker Jared Stiffler (who supplies sandwich bread, whole loaves for sale, and a slow-fermented pizza dough), chef Bill Wallender (who focuses on seasonal vegetables from local farms for pizzas and salads), and pastry chef Ken Puckett (cheesecakes, cookies, carrot cake)—and anchored the space with a deli case of the chefs’ creations, cafe-style seating, a wide selection of Oregon beer and wine (from Willamette Valley pinot to orange wines, biodynamic options, pet-nats, and lambruscos), pantry shelves stocked with local items like Henry Storch honey and Loving Fungi root beer, and cold cases with pork and chicken from Totum Farm. Burmeister describes the project as ‘a lot of things at once’ and is planning ways to make the market more welcoming to office workers, families, Timbers fans, and local students, hoping it will feel like a downtown stalwart that has been and will be there forever." - Thom Hilton
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