Openings, closings and dishy gossip

[July 2nd, 2008]

SALTY SWEET: Attention salt and caramel fiends: PDX salt headquarters The Meadow is hosting another tasting with sweets master David Briggs , the man behind the excellent Xocolatl de Davíd chocolate and caramel line. You already missed the first July 1 class, which basically consisted of slurping wine and taste-testing a bunch of decadent caramels with a number of different kinds of salt while Briggs and Meadow’s “selmelier,” Mark Bitterman, explain what marvelous things are happening in your mouth, but there’s a second class scheduled for 6 pm Tuesday, July 15 . You really shouldn’t miss it. Call 288-4633 to nab a space. It’s $15 per person. UPDATE Wednesday, July 2: The July 15 is sold out, but you can reserve a spot and the Tuesday, July 29 class now. Do it!

FLAT TIRE: Don’t distress, Little Red Bike Cafe (4823 N Lombard St., 289-0120) lovers. The butcher paper pasted over the windows at this NoPo bike-up or sit-down cafe doesn’t mean that they’ve closed up shop. Far from it. Owners Ali Jepson and Evan Dohrmann are just remodeling and, oh yeah, they’re getting married . That means, at least for the next week or so, they’ll only have select items available at the bike-up window. Congrats to the cute couple.