Amalfi's Italian Restaurant, also known as Amalfi's Restaurant and Mercato,
is an
Italian-American
Italian Americans () are Americans who have full or partial Italians, Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeastern United States, Northeast and industrial Midwestern United States, Midwestern ...
restaurant in
Portland, Oregon
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, United States.
Description
Amalfi's is a
Black-owned restaurant serving
Italian cuisine
Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine#CITEREFDavid1988, David 1988, Introduction, pp. 101–103 consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Ancient Roman cuisine, Roman times, and later spread ...
on Fremont Street in
northeast Portland's
Cully
Cully may refer to:
Places
*Cully, Calvados, a former commune in the Allier department, France
*Cully, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Vaud
*Cully, Portland, Oregon, United States, a neighborhood in northeast Portland
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neighborhood.
The menu includes pizza and lasagna.
The restaurant hosts live music regularly. ''PDX Rosie'', a mural depicting a Black woman posing like
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical
cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely n ...
, is painted on the restaurant's exterior.
History
Amalfi's was established in 1959.
Kiauna Floyd has owned the restaurant since 2006. She commissioned ''PDX Rosie'' in 2020.
The business used a large tent in the parking lot for outdoor seating during the
COVID-19 pandemic
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(2020–2021).
Reception
In
Thrillist
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's 2018 overview of "How to Find the Weird Old Portland Behind the New Hipster Portlandia", Kashann Kilson said Amalfi's "has been Portland's best Italian restaurant for more than half a century".
See also
*
List of Black-owned restaurants
Following is a list of notable current and defunct Black-owned restaurants, including bakeries as well as food carts and trucks, sorted by location (of headquarters in cases of chains):
Nigeria
* Veggie Victory – Lagos
South Africa
* Mzoli's ...
*
List of Italian restaurants
This is a list of notable Italian restaurants that specialize in the preparation and purveyance of Italian cuisine:
* Amato's
* Armani Ristorante
* ASK Italian
* Bella Italia
* Beppi's Restaurant
* Buca di Beppo
* Carrabba's Italian ...
References
External links
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{{Restaurants in Portland, Oregon
1959 establishments in Oregon
Black-owned restaurants in Oregon
Italian restaurants in Portland, Oregon
Restaurants established in 1959
Restaurants in Cully, Portland, Oregon