St. Jack is a "Northwest French" restaurant in
Portland, Oregon
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Description
St. Jack serves
French cuisine
French cuisine () is the cooking traditions and practices from France. It has been influenced over the centuries by the many surrounding cultures of Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, in addition to the food traditions of the re ...
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The menu includes chicken liver mousse, roasted bone marrow, and
steak frites
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History
The original St. Jack restaurant opened on Clinton Street in
southeast Portland
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Boundaries and features
Southeast Portland stretches from the warehouses along the Willamette River through historic Ladd's Addition to the Hawthorne and Belmont districts out to Gr ...
's
Hosford-Abernethy
Hosford-Abernethy is a neighborhood in the inner Southeast section of Portland, Oregon. It borders Buckman and Sunnyside on the north, Richmond on the east, Brooklyn and Creston-Kenilworth on the south, and (across the Willamette River) Downto ...
neighborhood in 2010.
The location on Northwest 23rd Avenue opened in 2014, slightly later than the previously planned December 2013 opening. The restaurant was briefly known as St. Jack NW to avoid confusion with the original location, which closed in early 2014.
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St. Jack launched a happy hour menu in April 2014; options included duck confit poutine, the Lyonnaise cheese spread cervelle de canut, and the St. Jack burger. The restaurant launched a late night happy hour in 2015. Chef Aaron Barnett opened the "spinoff" restaurant La Moule in mid 2015.
Jacob Harth became St. Jack's chef de cuisine in 2016. The restaurant stopped using plastic straws in 2018, and launched a brunch menu in 2019.]Lake Oswego, Oregon
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, were confirmed in 2019. The restaurant Lac St. Jack closed in 2022.
Reception
In 2021, Alex Frane and Brooke Jackson-Glidden included St. Jack in ''Eater Portland
''Eater'' is a food website by Vox Media. It was co-founded by Lockhart Steele and Ben Leventhal in 2005, and originally focused on dining and nightlife in New York City. Eater launched a national site in 2009, and covered nearly 20 cities by 2 ...
'' list of "11 Charming French Restaurants in Portland".[ Additionally, Frane and Maya MacEvoy included St. Jack in a list of "16 Quintessential Restaurants and Bars in Slabtown", and Jackson-Glidden included St. Jack in a list of "The 38 Essential Restaurants and Food Carts in Portland".
In 2023, chef John Denison was one of 18 Portland industry professionals deemed "rising stars" by the restaurant resource and trade publication ''StarChefs''.]
See also
* List of French restaurants
References
External links
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St. Jack
at Frommer's
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2010 establishments in Oregon
French restaurants in Portland, Oregon
Restaurants in Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, Oregon
Restaurants established in 2010
Restaurants in Northwest District, Portland, Oregon