Supper Club Cocktail Lounge (website, instagram) is scheduled to open on Saturday. The bar and restaurant will be open at 5 pm Thursday through Monday with the kitchen open until 9 pm, and the bar in operation until midnight Thursday through Saturday and until 11 pm on Sunday and Monday nights. It’s located in the former Guitar Grave space at 441 Congress Street nearby Monument Square.

Supper Club is the creation of Jake Bosma with front of house manager Zakk Nix, bar manager Shane Brennan, head chef Lo, and partners Isaac MacDougal, Brecken MacDougal and Zach Myers.

Bosma Shared, “Neighborhood feel is what has always drawn me to my favorite spaces in town and
that’s what I wanted to embody with Supper Club. It’s a place where you can drop in for a cocktail, stay for dinner, and end up closing down the lounge because you ran into friends and lost track of time. We wanted to capture that local affinity Portland already knows and loves and combine it with an ambient cocktail bar.”

The cocktail list (see below) includes drinks like the Nifty Fifty, a 50/50-ish martini made with pear and apple vermouth, sherry and an orange twist, the Automatic Love made with cilantro tequila, guava, fresno chiles and lime, and the Wisco Old Fashioned which is prepared with bourbon, brandy, Diplomatico rum, luxardo and dry curaco. There’s also a trio of nonalcoholic drinks and a small selection of beer and wine. Shown above are The Hare & The Dog and a Golden Negroni.

Chef Lo has put together a menu of bar snacks, apps and entrees, and desserts like the Bitter Greens salad was a full sized dish made with citrus, sesame seeds, cucumbers and sumac, and a delicious entree of Coconut Poached Hake (shown above) which is plated with celery root and cabbage is a coconut and chili broth.

The 2,400 sq ft space can seat up to 54 people. The main dining room features a 12-seat bar and banquette seating along the opposite wall. A lounge area with club chairs and an 8-seat circular booth flank the entrance from Congress Street. A separate area towards the back with lounge seating and its own 6-seat bar will be available for special events, private dinners, and overflow seating on busy nights. There’s also an 8-seat table a little removed from the main dining area for larger parties.

A new pop-up series called Set Lunch (instagram) will be starting up in Portland in March. The creation of Elise Schloff and Emma Porter, Set Lunch will serve 3-course lunches and take place  monthly-ish. The meals will be vegetarian—and often vegan—with a gluten free option, and each will explore their “favorite lunch concepts, from Japanese bento and French formules to Soviet canteens and cafeteria restaurants of the American South.”

Schloff shared this about Set Lunch, “I’m excited to be working with Emma because our culinary values and points of view are so complementary. I’ve been looking to work more with savory food and am really into lunch as a meal format and an ambiance. I love taking a moment in the middle of a busy day to luxuriate a bit. I feel most creative when I’m working with some sort of constraints, and I think a set price three-course meal will be a fun container to play with. There’s also just something very charming about a meal served on a tray, which I hope diners appreciate as much as we do.”

And Porter shared this, ” I love the concept of serving a meal that is complete, like you’re a visitor in our theoretical home(s) and this is what we’ve prepared for lunch based on what was available at the market. There is also a communal aspect of eating what everyone else is, too, which feels special as well.”

Porter is the founder of Ways of Bean, and Schloff is the creator of Soymilkmaid.

The first Set Lunch is scheduled to take place on Tuesday March 3rd at Luncheonette. Follow Set Lunch on instagram to hear about future events and see the menu for their first meal when it gets published.