In the autumn of 2022, Chase Dopson and Maggie Irwin opened Pastificio d’Oro in a small stone courtyard just off the St. Johns main drag, a space formerly occupied by Gracie’s Apizza. The tiny Italian restaurant became a neighborhood landmark almost overnight, with a dedicated cadre of regulars and frequent lines out the door. Eater listed it on the Best Italian Restaurants in Portland, and the Oregonian called it “your favorite pasta cook’s favorite pasta restaurant.” Pastificio slung its last plate of spaghetti in May, and for their new venture, Dopson and Irwin spun the globe for 5,000 miles from the Italian Alps to the bayous of Louisiana. Their
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