Southeast Portland Italian Most loved Burrasca Has Closed
A single of Portland’s leading Italian places to eat has served its past food.
Burrasca, the Southeast Clinton Avenue eating space with a menu affected by chef Paolo Calamai’s hometown of Florence, declared Jan. 15 via social media that it has shut its doors. Eater PDX very first noted the news.
“With our lease at an finish, we felt this introduced an chance for transform: time for far more focus on perfectly-becoming and household time to think about new and inspiring jobs,” the assertion read through. “Improve is a fantastic matter and we’re thrilled for a clean start and contemporary perspective.”
Burrasca started out as an unassuming food cart in 2013, but quickly turned a local favorite many thanks to its authentic and carefully crafted dishes, like wild boar pappardelle with handmade pasta and tomato-basil pappa al pomodoro soup. WW named Burrasca its 2014 Meals Cart of the Year.
The cart was a steppingstone to a whole-blown restaurant, in which Calamai ongoing to bring the intensive flavors of Florence to Portland diners, generally serving the plates in man or woman himself, for about 7 yrs. But even as Calamai and his wife, Elizabeth, introduced the closure of Burrasca, they seemed to presently know the chef wouldn’t be able to remain out of the kitchen area for as well extensive.
“Paolo’s love for the flavors and traditions comprising the abundant patrimony of Tuscan delicacies will not be quelled,” the submit ongoing, “so you can be confident to come across him cooking once again soon adequate.”
