The pizzeria opened in 2012, when pizzaiolo Will Fain rebranded Pizza Depokos in North Portland. While Seastar was becoming an educator and advocate for locally milled flours, Handsome Pizza rose to stardom during the great Portland pizza renaissance. Your stories were part of our restaurant.” “Friendship and community, celebration and grief are reflected in your routine meetups at our space, clusters of you working on projects together, weekly breakfast dates, chance encounters between familiar faces.
“My memory of the last seven years is largely from the vantage point of our little neighborhood spot,” Moss says in the newsletter.
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In the morning, Seastar filled the pastry case with baked goods like cocoa yogurt muffins and apricot cardamom tarts, while pizzas and calzones with seasonal ingredients made their way from the open kitchen to the dining room during lunch and dinner.ĭuring the COVID-19 lockdown, as home bakers hopped on the quarantine baking fad, Seastar sold baking ingredients online ( reportedly, 600 pounds in two days in April 2020), shared recipes ranging from easy to advanced, and even released a series of YouTube videos explaining the basics of baking. Both Seastar and Handsome developed a reputation within Portland for their passion for Pacific Northwestern flours and Oregon-grown produce, which appeared in their whole grain pastries, bread, and pizzas. Seastar Bakery was founded in 2015 by Tabor Bread alums Annie Moss and Katia Bezerra-Clark, opening with known-entity Handsome Pizza in the Northeast Killingsworth bakery space. “It was a challenge beyond what we could have imagined, and it was lovely, too.” “Almost exactly seven years ago, we opened Handsome Pizza and Seastar Bakery, a quirky, collaborative restaurant project that tested our creativity and connected us with our neighborhood,” the joint statement reads. Seastar co-owners Annie Moss and Katia Bezerra-Clark and Handsome Pizza owner Will Fain announced the closure in a newsletter. Seastar Bakery and Handsome Pizza, two wood-fired businesses that operated harmoniously under the same roof on Northeast Killingsworth, will close after service on Sunday, August 14.
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