When rapper Mikey Vegaz first started touring, he’d play shows at the Roseland Theater, the church-turned-music venue that has attracted both local and touring acts for decades. Starting next month, he’ll be selling food there, too. Trap Kitchen will open its first Portland restaurant within the Roseland Theater in May, serving lobster pizzas and teriyaki pineapple bowls.
Vegaz runs the Portland branch of Trap Kitchen, the perpetually popular catering company, Portland food cart, cookbook line, and Oakland restaurant from Malachi “Spank” Jenkins (or Chef Spank, or Spankihana) and Roberto “News” Smith. Jenkins and Smith started cooking and selling meals out of Smith’s grandmother’s kitchen back in 2013, building
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