It’s about to get even easier to acquire a food coma before waddling onto a plane in Portland.
Screen Door, the popular Portland Southern comfort food restaurant with its notoriously long lines at its location on East Burnside Street, is opening an outpost at Portland International Airport in 2021.
The Port of Portland, which owns and operates PDX, announced on Tuesday that Screen Door was expected to open an outpost that would serve breakfast all day long at the airport in the 2021. The port’s board must first approve the lease negotiations on Wednesday with Screen Door and eight other new food or retail locations in two different concourses.
Screen Door, Tillamook and a new “women in aviation” themed bar named Juliett from Portland bar purveyors Lightning Bar Collective, headline the new list of potential airport attractions.
Screen Door and Good Coffee will open locations in Concourse B as part of forthcoming renovations scheduled to finish in spring 2021. Seven other bars, restaurants or retail shops, are expected to open in the new extension of Concourse E set to be completed in summer 2020.
The airport already has 68 shops and restaurants, including outposts from well-known brands like Stumptown Coffee Roasters, The Country Cat, Deschutes Brewery, Nike, Columbia Sportswear and Hollywood Theatre.
According to the port, the new locations will bring 254 new jobs to the airport. Thirty different businesses submitted applications for the new retail and restaurant spots.
"We’re always looking for ways to reduce barriers to entry into our concessions program and the overwhelming response to tweaks we made in our processes was successful,” said Shane Andreasen, interim director of terminal business and properties. “We are excited about this mix of familiar and new offerings for PDX. We focused on companies that could deliver the best customer experience possible. We also paid close attention to quality employers who appreciate the value each employee brings to the job.”
Here are the details from the port:
Food & Beverage Options
- Bambuza Vietnam Kitchen (Concourse E): The second PDX location of this popular, local eatery makes their broths, sauces and marinades from scratch in-house and sends travelers on their journeys with earth-conscious compostable or 100% recyclable take-out packaging.
- Evergreens (Concourse E): Boasting, “Friends don’t let friends eat wilted salad,” this regional purveyor of healthy salads, grain bowls and wraps claims to work with one common goal in mind: to change the way people eat, and to do it with personality!
- Good Coffee (Concourse B): With the simple mission of roasting coffee and making coffee in inspiring spaces to create delight for others, Good Coffee joins the PDX coffee family bringing coffee-loving travelers a fifth brand choice for their jolt of java before or after a flight.
- Jamba (Concourse E): Formerly known as Jamba Juice, this national brand returns to PDX with a menu of smoothies, bowls and fresh juices. The company’s menu evolution now includes more options with plant-based and no-sugar-added menu items.
- Juliett (Concourse E): From the group that brought Portland The Sweet Hereafter, The Bye and Bye, Century and Capitol, among others, the Lightning Bar Collective will pay homage to women in aviation with this new bar, clearly inspired by the space in which it will reside.
- Screen Door (Concourse B): This outpost of the popular Portland location, operated by Host International, serves traditional southern cooking with northwest food values and will offer breakfast all day at PDX (with shorter lines — fingers crossed!). Fried Chicken and Waffles anytime? Yes, please!
- Tillamook (Concourse E): This restaurant will offer burgers and quick bites along with a selection of grab-and-go items. It will also feature an ice cream counter so travelers who may not have made it to the coast can still sample Oregon’s own “dairy done right.”
Retail Outlets
- Calliope (Concourse E): From the owners of cc McKenzie Shoes & Apparel comes a new shop focused on accessories and gifts. Calliope takes its name from one of Oregon’s native hummingbirds and plans to dazzle passengers with creative and playful keepsakes.
- Tender Loving Empire (Concourse E): Since 2007, Tender Loving Empire has been connecting people who create with people who want to live artfully. A second PDX location will expand this connection to more passengers, featuring a greater focus on the company’s record label offerings.
-- Andrew Theen
503-294-4026
@andrewtheen
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