Company type | Chain |
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Industry | Donuts |
Headquarters | |
Area served | United States |
Website | Official website |
Blue Star Donuts is a small chain of gourmet donut shops. The business has operated in Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. [1]
Blue Star launched a CBD-infused donut in 2019. [2] It went under a major downsizing in June 2020. [3] It declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2020, but was reorganized and emerged from protection in December 2020. [4]
All locations were temporarily closed in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, [5] and began selling "limited edition" products in grocery stores. [6] [7]
American chef Andrew Zimmern visited for an episode of the Travel Channel series The Zimmern List . [8]
Previously, there were locations in downtown Portland, NW 23rd Ave, Beaverton Progress Ridge and Multnomah Village all of which closed between May and June 2020. [12] [1]
Shine Distillery and Grill is a distillery which previously operated a bar and restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Boise neighborhood, in the United States.
Olympia Provisions Public House, formerly known as OP Wurst, is a public house in Portland, Oregon owned and operated by Olympia Provisions.
Collective Oregon Eateries (CORE) is a food cart pod in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Nacheaux is a Mexican-Cajun fusion restaurant in West Linn, Oregon. Previously, the business operated in Portland.
Matt's BBQ is a barbecue restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Boise neighborhood. Sibling restaurant Matt's BBQ Tacos, also located in Portland, opened in 2019.
Canard is a French restaurant with two locations in the U.S. state of Oregon. The original restaurant opened in Portland. A second location opened in Oregon City in 2022.
Gado Gado is an Asian restaurant in Portland, Oregon.
Fried Egg I'm in Love is a restaurant with multiple locations in Portland, Oregon.
Magna Kusina is a Filipino restaurant in Portland, Oregon.
Baes Fried Chicken, or Baes Chicken, is a fried chicken restaurant with three locations in Portland, Oregon. The original restaurant opened in Old Town Chinatown in November 2019. Outposts opened in southeast Portland's Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood in July 2020, and on Alberta Street in northeast Portland's Concordia neighborhood in January 2023. Baes has also been a vendor at the Moda Center.
Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai, or simply Pip's Original, is a doughnut shop with two locations in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. In addition to the original location in northeast Portland, the company operates in Beaverton, as of 2023. Nate Snell is a co-owner.
Bing Mi is a Chinese restaurant in Portland, Oregon. The original food cart specialized in the Chinese street food jianbing. The brick and mortar Bing Mi Dumpling and Noodle Bar opened in 2022 and focuses on Northern Chinese noodles and dumplings. The food cart closed in December 2023.
Toki was a Korean restaurant in Portland, Oregon. It closed in 2024.
NOLA Doughnuts was a doughnut shop with three locations in the Portland metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The original shop opened in Lake Oswego in 2015, and a second opened in northwest Portland's Pearl District in 2018. A third location opened in Beaverton in 2022. All locations closed in January 2023.
Oyatsupan Bakers, or simply Oyatsupan, is a Japanese bakery in the U.S. state of Oregon. The original bakery opened in Beaverton in 2016, and second location opened in Tigard in 2019.
Twisted Croissant is a bakery with two locations in Portland, Oregon. Owner Kurt Goddard began selling pastries at farmers' markets in the Portland metropolitan area before opening the first brick and mortar bakery in northeast Portland's Irvington neighborhood in 2019. A second bakery opened in southeast Portland's Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood.
Two Wrongs is a cocktail bar in Portland, Oregon.
Tierra del Sol is a Oaxacan restaurant with two locations in Portland, Oregon. Chef-owner Amalia Sierra began operating the business from a food cart at Portland Mercado in 2015. A second location opened in the Montavilla neighborhood in 2020.
Paladin Pie is a Dungeons & Dragons-themed pizzeria in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Owner Leo Brill started the business as a pop-up restaurant in 2020, before operating from a food cart on Alberta Street starting in 2022.
Tanaka is a small chain of Japanese restaurants in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. The original location has operated in downtown Portland since 2022. A second location opened in Bridgeport Village in 2023, and a third followed in Gresham in 2024.