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Restaurant information | |
Established | 2007 |
Closed | 2020 |
Owner(s) | Naomi Pomeroy |
Chef | Naomi Pomeroy |
Street address | 5425 Northeast 30th Avenue |
City | Portland |
State | Oregon |
Postal/ZIP Code | 97211 |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 45°33′45″N 122°38′06″W / 45.5624°N 122.6351°W |
Beast was a restaurant in Portland, Oregon. [1] [2] [3] The business earned chef and owner Naomi Pomeroy [4] [5] a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Northwest in 2014. [6] [7] [8]
The restaurant served French [9] [10] and Pacific Northwest cuisine [11] in a 600-square-foot [12] dining room with two tables for communal dining. [13] [14] The restaurant served prix fixe dinners [15] [16] as well as brunch. [17]
Pomeroy opened Beast in 2007 with business partner Micah Camden [18] and sous chef Mika Paredes. [19] [20] Pomeroy was negotiating a lease to relocate the business as of 2012. [21] [22]
The restaurant closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [23] [24] [25] The space was converted into a market called Ripe Cooperative. [26] [27]
Beast and Le Pigeon were named co-2008 Restaurants of the Year by The Oregonian. [28] Beast won in the Best Prix Fixe Menu category of Willamette Week's annual Best of Portland readers' poll in 2016. [29]