Restaurant and Food Related Press Releases For Portland Oregon

Pok Pok Winter Closure

January 7, 2010 by Food Dude  
Filed under Restaurant News

Winter Closure
and other news

Pok Pok will be closed from January 1st-14th for our annual holiday/repair/remodel. We will reopen on Friday, January 15th for normal business hours. Our new bar/lounge, the Whiskey Soda Lounge, will be closed on New Year’s Day also, but will reopen on [...]

Pok Pok Will Be Closed This Sunday

November 11, 2009 by Food Dude  
Filed under Restaurant News

POK POK WILL BE CLOSED ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH TO MOVE OUR PREP KITCHEN ACROSS THE STREET TO THE NEW WHISKEY SODA LOUNGE LOCATION.
The bar/lounge portion of the WSL will be opening in early December if all goes well. There is a splash page for the website up: whiskeysodalounge.com. We will post menus and open [...]

Pok Pok News

June 15, 2009 by Food Dude  
Filed under Restaurant News

Pok Pok has once again been fortunate enough to make it into the Oregonian Diner restaurant guide this year. Here is the url to the article: http://www.oregonlive.com/diner/index.ssf/2009/06/pok_pokwhiskey_soda_lounge.htm. Check out our sister restaurant Ping in the same publication. Ping was named Rising Star of the Year 2009.
Also, look for an episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives [...]

new menu, new season, new press from Pok Pok

May 13, 2009 by Food Dude  
Filed under Restaurant News

With Spring just around the corner Pok Pok is tidying up and preparing the patio for full service, which will commence in earnest when it warms up a bit, hopefully soon! A new menu is coming this Thursday which will feature some new dishes such as Laap Dip, which is for lack of a better [...]

new dish at pok pok

April 1, 2009 by Food Dude  
Filed under Restaurant News

We have added khanom jiin naam yaa to the menu for this spring. It is rice vermicelli topped with a ground fish curry with coconut milk. The predominant flavor in the curry paste in krachai, an earthy and somewhat galangal-like (in flavor) rhizome grown in Southeast Asia and used in a lot of Thai cooking. [...]

Menu Change at Pok Pok

March 8, 2009 by Food Dude  
Filed under Restaurant News

Hi all, we just had a menu change today. We are adding a Southern Thai dish called Khao Yam which is a coconut rice salad with lemongrass, lime leaf, peanuts, chilies, green mango, bean sprouts, fried shallots, dry shrimp and toasted coconut and topped with boo doo sauce (palm sugar, galangal, lemongrass, fish sauce and [...]