ned ludd

Upright Brewing Showcase -
September 30th, 6:00 PM
Our other speciality dinner for September will be a showcase of one of our favorite new, local brewers, Alex Ganum of Upright Brewing. This dinner will be five courses with pairings from Upright with each course. Alex uses Belgian yeast strains, open-top fermentation along with a number of other Old World traditions to create beers that are strictly Northwest. This is why we feel Upright and Ned Ludd are such a wonderful fit: taking European tradition and local ingredients to create something completely new that could only happen in such a wonderful place like Portland. Our chef, Ben Meyer, has been working very closely with Alex to develop a menu that will both complement and highlight Alex's wonderfully unique brews. Alex will be on hand to talk about his brewing methods, while Ben will be discussing how he developed the menu to highlight the different beers. The showcase will be here at Ned Ludd. Tickets for this dinner will be $60 and space is limited to 40 seats, so they're going to go fast. If you have any questions, or would like to purchase a ticket please call the restaurant, email us, or ask your server next time you're in.

Community Garden Benefit Dinner -
October 14th at 6:00 PM
If you have never been in the lot behind the restaurant, take a look next time you're in. Nestled up against the back of our building is our very own garden, with our extra wood for the oven against the fence on the north side of the perimeter. The rest of the lot is the King Neighborhood Shortcut Farms, an urban agricultural center sponsored by the Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust. OSALT is a local organization committed to maintaining urban agricultural land and educating communities on the benefits of such spaces. Short Cut started in May of this year, after OSALT was able to procure the space behind Ned Ludd from the city through a land swap. It's a beautiful space, take a minute to stroll through it next time you're in. A lot of time, hard work, and wonderful donations have gone into making this community farm what it is so far. The next project for the garden will be building a two-thousand gallon water catchment and reclamation system that will provide rain water for the Farm year-round, as well as some additional maintenance to the space. To show our appreciation for Short Cut allowing us to use some of their space we are holding a benefit dinner Wednesday, October 14th, starting at 6:00 pm. Dinner will be held in the garden, weather permitting, under the cherry tree. We will be serving six courses with drink pairings for each course and all of the food highlighted in the dinner will be sourced as close to Portland as we can possibly get. In attendance will be the heads of OSALT, the garden's new program directors - Gary Nash and Aimee Jo Bartholomew from Cycle Crop Farms - as well as the community liason for the garden, all to discuss the process, what OSALT does and the future of the space both as an urban agricultural center and educational facility. Tickets for the dinner are $75 and are going fast as space is limited to 35 seats. If you have any questions or would like to purchase a ticket please call the restaurant or ask your server next time you're in.

Ned Ludd
3925 NE MLK Jr. Blvd
Portland OR 97212
503.288.6900
ned.ludd.tavern@gmail.com