According to a recent article from Bridgetown Bites, The Paper Bridge is set to open its doors in SE Portland, located at 828 SE Ash Street.
“We will be opening our doors shortly. Our restaurant will be focusing on the regional cuisine of Northern Vietnam in the Pine Street Studios building, home to both Bar Casa Vale and Scotch Lodge,” chef and co-owner Carlo Reinardy told What Now Portland.
“The Paper Bridge (named after the Cầu Giấy district of Hanoi where co-owner Quynh Nguyen was born, and where she met and married me, features northern delicacies that rarely grace typical Vietnamese restaurant menus.”
“The combination of small plates, noodle dishes (featuring in-house made rice noodles), and shared entrees is a veritable culinary tour through the mountains and river valleys that crisscross the region. The menu features everything from the famous street foods of the cosmopolitan city of Hanoi to the cuisine of various ethnic groups that live in the mountainous borderlands of Laos and China.”
Quynh Nguyen was motivated to open The Paper Bridge to share not just the food, but the experiences she missed the most from eating in Vietnam.
“After moving to America and living here for a few years, what I missed the most was the experience of going out to these tiny street-side stalls. They would be down some hidden alley only a few meters wide, where we would just sit on these tiny blue chairs and enjoy some dish that could only be found at that one stall, enjoying every accompanying smell, sight, and sound” she said.
“The Paper Bride is a place to experience this Vietnam in its raw authenticity; featuring rare, imported ingredients and spices straight from Vietnam, hand-picked heritage teas, imported coffee beans from Vietnam specifically blended and roasted for The Paper Bridge, and a mock Vietnamese alley for a dining room to boot. The Paper Bridge is where you can find Portland’s culinary embassy for North Vietnam, even all the way down to a few, iconic, tiny blue chairs,” the co-owners expressed in a shared press release with What Now Portland.
