How do you replicate Portland’s celebrated restaurant scene?

If you’re Reno, Nevada, you import it directly.

Turns out, “The Biggest Little City in the World” has been luring Portland food and drink businesses for a few years now, starting with an outpost of the cafe and motorcycle shop See See Motor Coffee Co. in 2016, followed by a Pine State Biscuits location in 2018. And today, Reno will get its first Sizzle Pie, the hip, vegan-friendly, metal-loving, Portland-based pizzeria that already has satellites in Eugene and Seattle.

According to the Reno Gazette Journal, Sizzle Pie, Pine State Biscuits and See See Motor Coffee Co. have all popped up within close proximity of each other in downtown Reno, “on a stretch of Pine Street at South Center that some folks have started calling Little Portland.”

So what should we export to Reno’s Little Portland next? Gazette Journal food editor Johnathan L. Wright suggests readers “pray for Pok Pok,” which makes a certain sense. Andy Ricker’s Thai restaurant recently made its first foray into Nevada via a wing kiosk at The Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas. That same project included the first non-Portland location of Lardo. Maybe Lardo owner Rick Gencarelli is interested in expanding his Nevada footprint north?

Salt & Straw and Blue Star Donuts have both had success expanding outside of Portland of late, particularly in Los Angeles. Abbott Kinney Boulevard in Venice looks like a Little Portland of its own. Voodoo Doughnut is already in a half dozen cities. And what about Fire on the Mountain? The popular Portland wing shack already has a Denver location.

-- Michael Russell (@tdmrussell)

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