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Portland, OR, May 13, 2019 — Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America, announced today that David Machado Restaurants will be honored this fall with Americans for the Arts’ national Arts and Business Partnership Award.
Eater Portland tours our new Pearl District restaurant, Tanner Creek Tavern. Tanner Creek opens for dinner on September 12. Read the entire article and tour the photo gallery here>>
[Eater Portland, September 11, 2017, Mattie John Bammon. Photography by Dina Avila.]
One of the city’s most anticipated restaurants opens tomorrow: Tanner Creek Tavern will light the burners to serve globally inspired plates by chef Trevor Payne (Olympia Provisions, Little Bird Bistro) at 875 NW Everett St. As the photos below reveal, the 5,000-square-foot space adjacent to the new Hampton Inn Suites has a commanding atmosphere overseen by an open kitchen, with a 28-seat circular bar at its heart.
Along with lots of concrete, steel, blond wood, and natural light, Tanner Creek’s defining element is a black-and-white wall mural of the restaurant’s namesake Tanner Creek and tannery, built in 1845 in the nearby Goose Hollow neighborhood. The restaurant’s lounge area seats 48, with 66 seats in the dining room.
Tanner Creek’s full menus are now on the website. The dishes come in a wide range of styles, from power-lunch showstoppers to breezy salads for a relaxed afternoon with a glass of wine.
Along with a daily seafood special, Tanner Creek provides upscale offerings like harissa-stewed clams with fried potato and roasted fennel; eggplant tortellini with tomato butter and smoked ricotta salata; and grilled coulotte steak and braised shank with fingerling potatoes, beef jus, and English Stilton. The wine list centers on South America, with many options from Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
Tanner Creek Tavern opens for dinner seven nights a week tomorrow, September 12. It will add happy hour on Tuesday, September 19, and lunch will launch on September 26.
The Oregonian/OregonLive (Michael Russell, September 11, 2017) takes a first look at Tanner Creek Tavern, David Machado’s first restaurant in the Pearl. Take a peak at the gallery of photos and read the entire article here>> (Photography by John Valls.)
Tanner Creek Tavern, named for a creek that flows under the condo-rich neighborhood, will open Tuesday, September 12 in new construction alongside the Hampton Inn Suites.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 10:22am PDT
by Jon Bell
Portland Business Journal
Just a few months ago, almost any vantage point from inside the former Red Lion Hotel on Northeast Grand Avenue offered expansive views of the city in just about every direction.
The reason: the 1960s-era hotel had been gutted and stripped down to its steel and concrete skeleton as part of a $10 million remake.
“It was just columns and concrete floors and ceilings, and we took everything else out in between,” said Desmond Mollendor, general manager and a partner with Grand Ventures Hotel LLC, the firm behind the renovation. “You could see right through the building.”
With just a few weeks to go before the hotel reopens on May 5 as the Hotel Eastlund, that’s not the case any longer. The 168-room hotel has been nearly built anew, with a much more pedestrian-friendly setup, revamped rooms and meeting spaces and two new restaurants from Portland’s David Machado.
No longer can one see right through the building, but the hotel still offers commanding vistas of the downtown skyline, the booming Lloyd District and even an occasional peek at Mt. St. Helens.
The roughly nine-month renovation, led by S.D. Deacon, is expected to wrap up in time for a May 5 opening. The hotel has already begun taking reservations, with rooms starting at $189 per night. When it opens, the Eastlund will employ about 65 staff members. The two restaurants will have between 80 and 85 employees, according to Mollendor.
Read the entire article and view the gallery of photos here>>
From the Portland Business Journal
March 24, 2015
by Jon Bell
What was once a ho-hum Red Lion Hotel is just a month or so away from being unveiled as Portland’s newest luxury boutique hotel with rooms starting at close to $200 a night.
Seattle-based Grand Ventures Hotel LLC is heading into the final stretch of the massive renovation that gutted the Red Lion in the Lloyd District to make way for the Hotel Eastlund. The new hotel, scheduled to open in May, will feature 168 rooms and suites as well as a flexible ballroom with floor-to-ceiling windows, two executive boardrooms and two private dining rooms overlooking the Portland skyline.
As of this week, the hotel has begun accepting reservations. Opening rates at the low end run $189; deluxe suites approach $470 per night. Guest rooms and suites have either California kings or what the hotel claims are the first-ever California queens, as well as commissioned artwork by Loui Jover and Badri Valian.
Read the entire article in the Portland Business Journal.
From The Oregonian
July 3, 2014
By Elliot Njus
The Red Lion Hotel near the Oregon Convention Center in Portland will close Sept. 2 and reopen next year as Hotel Eastlund after an extensive renovation.
Portland development officials are reviewing the plan, which calls for a complete reboot for the half-century-old hotel.
“We’re gutting it and building everything back from scratch,” said Desmond Mollendor, one of the partners in Grand Ventures Hotel LLC, which bought the hotel last summer. “There’s nothing currently there that’s going to remain except for the structure itself.”
When it reopens in May, the hotel will have two new restaurants run by Portland chef David Machado, who operated Nel Centro at the Hotel Modera. That hotel went through a similar repositioning by the same partnership.
On the top floor of the six-story building, Machado will run a full-service restaurant with a rooftop deck and three fire pits. On the street level and spilling into the hotel lobby, he’ll open a bakery-cafe and wine bar.
The hotel will also include two boardrooms, two private dining rooms and a ballroom. Its room count will fall from 173 before the renovation to 168 after.
The $10 million renovation will replace a driveway to the underground parking garage with 1,000 square feet of retail storefronts. Mollendor said the businesses will be able to take advantage of increased foot traffic from the hotel, the convention center and the hundreds of new apartments under construction nearby.
“As more of this density comes, there will be more and more foot traffic,” he said. “I don’t think there will be much trouble in the way of filling that space down the road.”
Portland-area hotels have seen an uptick in occupancy and revenue in recent months, a rebound from a recession that had stalled any potential for new hotel construction.
That’s prompted a wave of hotel investment. A Residence Inn by Marriott, funded through a federal immigrant investor program, opened in the Pearl District in April, and Hilton has announced a boutique-style, 300-room hotel at Southwest Second and Jefferson. Several other hotels have recently traded hands.
“Portland is a strong hotel market,” Mollendor said. “We’re becoming more and more known for great things to see and do. Hopefully that will continue.”
— Elliot Njus
Read the article at The Oregonian>>
Rendering by Holst Architecture.
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