Last summer Sterling Coffee filled half gallon growlers that donned a griffin logo with cold brew concentrate. This summer, Barista on Alberta is serving their cold brew outside from a coffee cart because their coffee house is still fire-ravaged.

But the cube ice, walnut bar from Goby, and house-made cookie pictured above are from Courier. The coffee is a wash process Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Biloya that arrived in August. Joel says “it has grapefruit qualities and citrus, still has jasmine on the high notes, but it has a bitter grapefruit quality too.”

The original Trader Vic’s Portland location was in the Benson Hotel and was a spot to “escape the rain and enjoy a taste of the tropics.” This time around diners can escape, but they can do it while still immersing themselves in Portland-based style. Local interior design studio Vanillawood created the interior for the returning restaurant, and utilized reclaimed wood and English Walnut sourced through Portland’s Goby Walnut. From Vanillawood’s latest press release:

The design for the restaurant’s 250-seat dining space takes its lead from classic Trader Vic’s iconography (tribal masks, tiki carvings, tapa cloth and woven grass wall coverings), while seamlessly integrating contemporary and salvaged materials. Flooring throughout the restaurant is made of reclaimed shipping dunnage; the bar and tabletops feature live-edge, solid slabs of Walnut; and guests are treated to Oregon’s first live, interior vertical plant wall alongside a stacked-stone slate water feature as they enter the space.