Years ago, when it was still open, Ami Taylor, Brighid King, and Tony Lambright were all regulars at the Beech Street Parlor in Northeast Portland. Beech Street was more house party than cocktail bar; neighborhood locals would pop by for a pint and sit out on the covered porch, or listen to the DJ sets that would thump the converted house’s walls on the weekends. The bar and restaurant industry vets developed friendships with Beech Street owners Maryam and Djamilah Troncelliti, playing in Maryam’s softball league. They mourned the bar when it closed in 2020. In its place, San Francisco expat Ian Muntzert opened a Spanish restaurant called Brasa
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