Ripe Cooperative — the restaurant, wine shop, and grab-and-go market from celebrated Portland chef Naomi Pomeroy — will close after service this Saturday, October 15. The chef posted on Instagram announcing the restaurant’s impending closure, also noting that she would leave the space that was previously home to her groundbreaking tasting menu restaurant Beast.
In a statement on the restaurant’s website, Pomeroy attributes the decision to close to the compounding challenges impacting the restaurant industry, including inflation and other rising costs. “The current landscape is making quality foodservice nearly impossible,” Pomeroy writes in a statement on Ripe’s website. “I want to live in a world of small beautiful things,
→ Continue reading at Eater