Some of Portland’s most accomplished restaurateurs and chefs just opened OK Chicken & Khao Soi on SE Division.

The Southeast Division Street house has been empty since 2020, its interior gathering dust, its entrance blocked by a chainlink fence. But for the 15 years prior to its pandemic-time closure, the ...

Update: OK Chicken & Khao Soi will open in the former Pok Pok space on Jan. 23, 2026. Original story: It’s been years (decades?) since The Oregonian had a gossip column. But a surprise encounter ...

Coincidentally, Ninsom’s server that evening way back when was Eric Nelson, who, after establishing himself as a renowned ...