After more than three years — which included a pandemic, a restaurant industry reckoning, a few TV appearances, an extended pop-up in a tent village, a cookbook, and a James Beard Award — chef Gregory Gourdet has finally opened the long-anticipated Haitian restaurant Kann, his first restaurant.
Way back in 2019, Gourdet — then mostly known as a finalist on Top Chef season 12 and the chef at downtown hotel restaurant Departure — announced plans to open a Haitian restaurant in Portland, also incorporating some of his other culinary influences, like Southeast Asian ingredients and Pacific Northwestern produce. He wanted to pay homage to his early years, and
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