After 17 years climbing through Portland’s most esteemed kitchens, chef Vedran Jordan is ready to take a shot at the belt himself. He’ll take his pop-up Alma to its first permanent location in early summer 2025, a tremendous restaurant space with serpentine arches and colorful ceramic tiles meant to invoke Turkey. Jordan, himself a refugee from Sarajevo who left when he was 12 years old, named the pop-up after his mother. “I always wanted to bring the food of my culture and the food of my family into Portland,” Jordan says, “[to] showcase and educate people on the Balkan region.”
Alma’s offerings are renditions of both family recipes and
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