Portland Craft is a pretty good Plan B for a pub owner faced with an expiring lease. Cameron Forsyth was contentedly running the cozy Main Street watering hole Public Lounge when his landlord told him he had to make room for a new tenant. Instead of pouting, though, he simply looked further up the street, joined forces with co-owner Andrew Harris, and took over a bigger space five blocks away.
Not happy with a mere change of scenery, however, Cameron and Andrew also took the opportunity to roll out an entirely new concept: a Portland-themed bar with 16 taps of Pacific Northwest craft beer. The previously unremarkable — and largely unfrequented — space was immediately packed to the gills every night, which Cameron attributes to a “perfect storm of this new concept, at a moment when craft beer was really starting to taking off, in a neighbourhood that was itching for something like it."
OLD BAY SPICED POPCORN
MARINATED OLIVES
Fennel, fresh oregano
DUO OF DIPS
With smoked paprika and house made bravo ketchup or roasted garlic aioli
WE CAN PICKLE THAT
FRIES
Kennebec potatoes, scallion aioli or house ketchup
CEVICHE
Seasonal seafood, bell pepper, scallion, tortilla chips
BUTTER LETTUCE SALAD
Radish, grape tomato, cucumber, scallion, green goddess
dressing or dill pickle vinaigrette
BEET SALAD
Roasted red and golden beets, heirloom carrots, whipped chevre, Belgian endive, mache, hazelnut crumb
DAILY PIZZA
Meat and veggie option
ORGANIC CHICKEN WINGS
Choice of bbq, hot, root beer glaze or salt and pepper • Add blue cheese dressing • $1
POUTINE
Kennebec fries, cheese curds, fruilano, chicken gravy
GRAVLAX
Vodka cured salmon, sunchoke chips, pickled fennel, shaved asparagus, grainy IPA Dijon
TUNA SLIDERS
Albacore tuna grilled rare, edamame puree, kohlrabi slaw, mizuna and sesame salad
PORTLAND CRAFT BURGER
Ground chuck and brisket patty, butter lettuce, house ketchup, pickled red onion, aged cheddar, scallion aioli. Add house peameal bacon • $2 • fried egg • $2 • sub salad • $2
PUT A BIRD ON IT
Organic buttermilk fried chicken, waffles, maple syrup, gravy, mizuna and watermelon salad
VEGETARIAN SHEPHERD’S PIE
Braised lentils, sautéed mushrooms, brown rice, cauliflower puree, aged cheddar, root vegetable chips
PORK BELLY
Braised pork belly, fried brussels sprouts, maple sherry glaze, crispy leeks
BRAISED BEEF CHEEK
BRAISED BEEF CHEEK
CHARCUTERIE
Rotating selection of cheese and meat, pickles, marinated olives, grainy IPA Dijon, bread
LEMON BUTTER GREEN BEANS
SHERRY AND CHILLI FRIED BRUSSELS SPROUTS
SHAVED PECORINO GRILLED ASPARAGUS
CHEDDAR AND JALAPENO GRITS
BLUEBERRY PIE BITES
Lemon curd, candied mint
CHOCOLATE CAKE
Ganache, pistachio, daily ice cream
VANILLA PANNA COTTA
Lime, anise shortbread
Saturday & Sunday 10 am to 2 pm
Our eggs are free range
HOUSE TOASTED GRANOLA
Organic yogurt, fresh fruit, mountain honey
BISCUITS & GRAVY
2 buttermilk biscuits, banger sausage, country gravy, greens
PORK BELLY HASH
Crispy pork belly, 2 poached eggs, caramelized shallots, grainy mustard, Kennebec potato, Fruilano cheese
DAILY FRITTATA
Market vegetables, biscuit
B.L.T
Bacon, lettuce, grilled trout, dill aioli served with fries or salad
PORTLAND CRAFT BURGER
6 oz organic patty, pickled beets, spinach, aged cheddar served with fries or salad
• Add a poached egg $2
• Add sausage $3
SAUSAGE & GRITS
Grilled Andouille sausage, jalapeno and cheddar grits, 2 poached eggs
POACHED EGG
BISCUITS
POTS
BACON
SAUSAGE
GRAVY
SALTY SPICED HAZELNUTS
DRUNKEN OLIVES, FRESH HERBS
LEMON BUTTER GREEN BEANS
CIDER VINEGAR & SEA SALT POTATO CHIPS
WE CAN PICKLE THAT
HOUSE FRITES
With smoked paprika and house made bravo ketchup or roasted garlic aioli
WARM SPINACH SALAD
Warm cremini mushrooms , croutons, shaved Parmesan, Dijon mustard and walnut dressing
BRUSHETTA
Roasted poblano peppers, fresh tomato salsa, toasted pine nuts with fruilano cheese
DAILY PIZZA
Meat and veggie option
SALT N PEPPER WINGS
Fresh cracked pepper and sea salt, served with a side of carrot and habañero hot sauce and a celeriac slaw
CHOCOLATE CAKE
Ganache, pistachio, daily ice cream
Drinks
Draught Beer
Wine
Cocktails & Bourbon
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Portland Craft offers just what its name suggests: a Portland-themed bar serving Pacific Northwest craft beer – 16 rotating taps to be specific. This Main Street resto-pub celebrates Portland’s unique palate with an eclectic menu that features Hopworks, Deschutes, and Rogue beer alongside cheese grits, kale and beet topped burgers, and fried chicken with waffles.
View this Smart ListOf course the bar and restaurant whose ode to the Pacific Northwest’s favourite city is apparent in everything from its name to its draught beer selection would put chicken and waffles on its menu and call it Put a Bird On It. The phrase made famous by the satirical show Portlandia is an apt one for this weekend brunch staple at the Main Street pub. Their Belgian is topped with — of course — hop-fried buttermilk chicken and served with gravy and syrup.
View this Smart ListOwned and operated by a Langley boy with the deepest admiration and respect for our southern sister city, this Main Street restaurant is an ode to all things (though mostly beer) Portland. But when it came to his beer cocktails, it was local all the way. Aside from the classic Boilermaker, using Main Street Pilsner with a shot of Jameson’s, they’ve added the Drafted Americano to their cocktail list — a serious concoction of, again, that neighbourhood pilsner, Italian vermouth and Campari over ice.
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