Acadia: A New Orleans Bistro

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Acadia: A New Orleans Bistro
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The restaurant's exterior, 2016
Acadia: A New Orleans Bistro
Restaurant information
ClosedJanuary 2022 (2022-01)
Food type
Street address1303 NE Fremont Street
City Portland
County Multnomah
StateOregon
Postal/ZIP Code97212
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 45°32′54″N122°39′09″W / 45.54841°N 122.65262°W / 45.54841; -122.65262
Website acadiapdx.com

Acadia: A New Orleans Bistro, or simply Acadia, [1] was a Cajun-, Louisiana Creole-, and Southern-style restaurant in northeast Portland, Oregon, in the United States. [2]

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Description

Acadia was a Cajun-, Louisiana Creole- and Southern-style [3] restaurant located at 1303 Northeast Fremont Street in Portland's Sabin neighborhood. Its specialities included grilled pork chops and barbecue shrimp; the menu also included catfish, filet mignon, [4] gumbo, jambalaya, [5] and homemade ice cream. [6] [7]

History

Adam Higgs became owner in 2004. [8] The restaurant closed in 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic. [9] [10] [11] [12]

Reception

Exterior sign (2016) Acadia, PDX, 2016.jpg
Exterior sign (2016)

The eighth edition of Best Places: Portland (2010) rates the restaurant two and a half out of three stars. [13] In Food Lover's Guide to Portland (2014), Liz Crain included Acadia in her list of "go to" seafood restaurants. [14] Willamette Week included the business in a 2016 list of Portland's best seafood establishments. [15]

After recommending the Louisiana barbecue shrimp, andouille, and sanguinaccio in 2016, [16] Michael Russell included Acadia in The Oregonian 's 2017 overview of the 40 best restaurants in northeast Portland and wrote, "Portland might not be the first place I'd go looking for Cajun/Creole cuisine, but this charming Sabin neighborhood restaurant does have a few arguments in its favor, none more compelling than these beautiful Nola-style barbecue shrimp. Having tried both in the past year, I can definitively say that Acadia's rendition, with its plump shrimp in a decadent white wine, butter and lemon sauce, blows the original at New Orleans' Pascal Manale's completely out of the Gulf waters." [17] He also included Acadia in the newspaper's 2018 list of Portland's 10 best Southern restaurants. [18] Russell ranked the business number 32 and number 34 on 2018 and 2019 lists of the city's best restaurants, respectively. [19] [20]

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  2. ↑ So, Adrienne (2017-11-10). "Acadia Makes Cajun Fare Rich as New Orleans and Refined as Anything from the French". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on 2022-12-17. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
  3. ↑ Dresbeck, Rachel (2011-03-01). Insiders' Guide® to Portland, Oregon, 7th. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-0-7627-7477-7. Archived from the original on 2022-12-17. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
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