The Portlandification of Los Angeles

[EL PRESIDENTE]

In the last year, there has been a lot of PORTLAND popping up in Hipster-growing Los Angeles.

Pok Pok (2 of them coming soon)
Salt and Straw
Tanner Goods
Ace Hotel
Stumptown Roasters

Downtown might get the same street cars, they were using Portland as a model.

ITS LIKE I NEVER LEFT BRO.

:MARIS61:

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Dallas and Phoenix are also using Portland as the model for their new streetcar system.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Yeah, but those cities have teh ghey.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

considering all those things you mentioned probably involve more california transplants than native oregonians, I'm not surprised

 

[MickZagger]

Man, FUCK LA!!!!!

Real.

Talk.

 

[julius]

In the last year, there has been a lot of PORTLAND popping up in Hipster-growing Los Angeles.

Pok Pok (2 of them coming soon)
Salt and Straw
Tanner Goods
Ace Hotel
Stumptown Roasters

Downtown might get the same street cars, they were using Portland as a model.

ITS LIKE I NEVER LEFT BRO.

:MARIS61:

The bigger question is, are the streets flooded with ironic hipsters, like yourself?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

perhaps.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

This bro moved from Portland to LA to open up a food stand, the Egg Slut.

http://www.eater.com/2014/9/24/6836...-planning-proper-diner-concept-in-los-angeles

Why open Eggslut in LA? A lot of people move from places like LA to Portland to open a food truck and you did it backwards.
It was crazy because I really wanted to eat good breakfasts. Portland's such a big breakfast place. You go to LA and there's nothing, because everyone is trying to beat traffic. Eating in your car is so huge it’s like, "Oh, I have to go get a McDonald's breakfast or something." I didn't want that. I worked at night, so I was like, "I want to eat breakfast. I want to sit down, eat something good and carry on with my day." They don't have that in LA, so for me, it was a no-brainer. I'm like, "With my culinary experience, obviously I'm not going to do a 15-course taster every night, but I can make a mean breakfast sandwich." So, I tried it.

Within three months of me parking there, I was able to pay for all my debt.

I sold all my belongings. I sold my car, which was a pretty nice car — it was an excessive SUV — and I had enough money for a six-month pop-up in a food truck. I knew, coming from Portland, that coffee was going to be the biggest thing. I teamed up with a boutique coffee shop in West Hollywood and within three months of me parking there, I was able to pay for all my debt. Then I was like, "Fuck a pop-up, let's just keep doing this." We did it for two-and-a-half years and then we teamed up with Handsome Coffee when they opened. We had a downtown market and we created a hysteria on the weekends at Handsome Coffee with the food truck in their place.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Andy Ricker moving to LA to live in Chinatown:

http://www.eater.com/2014/9/22/6827...-on-los-angeles-expansion-and-diversification

What made the timing right to open in LA now?
The reason we chose LA is pretty simple. I'm tired of opening restaurants in cities that are in Pacific Northwest and [the Northeast], where the climate is polar opposite — not quite polar opposite — but pretty far fucking opposite from the right climate to grow the stuff that we need. So I swore that if there was going to be any more expansion at all, it would only be in cities where getting our product was not only not an issue, but hopefully close to places where they actually grew the stuff that we need.

I lived in LA in the mid '80s, and at the time, it was good: I was 22 years old and it was a fun time to be there, but it was also kind of dire, it was kind of bleak… I had just seen some really ugly crap on the streets and I just started hating it, I felt like it was a big soulless metropolis and I was done. I left and I swear I'd never go back. I started going there for business stuff over the last couple years, and every time I go down, I'm like, "Wow ... LA's cool." More stuff is happening. There's a booming food scene: You can really feel it when you're in a city where things are starting to [take off] like that. It's how Portland felt 10 years ago. LA is a little bit past that, but it's got that same vibe, there's stuff happening. It seems like a good time to be there.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Vancouver, BC has some Portland envy too.

There is a bar named 'Portland Craft' and features food-cart style food and Portland brewery brand beer.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Venice is getting a Blue Star Donuts. :MARIS61:

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Silicon Valley residents are moving to Portland in droves. Iirc, the metro is the 10th fastest growing in the nation.

Searches for Portland real-estate from that area is up 400%

Blazer/Warrior home games are going to feel like Blazer/Laker games -- 50/50

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

shitloads are moving near me. "Silicon Beach".

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/05/laxadjacent_rents_now_on_par_with_beverly_hills_rents.php

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Keep turning into portland more and more so all these a hole Californians can move back to la