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Just saw this<\/a> over at the Exploration of Portland Food and Drink<\/a> blog, then read the story at WWeek<\/a> – the South Park Block #5 will have a new restaurant built over part of it – called – VIOLA<\/strong> (!)\u00c2\u00a0 Wonder if they’ll have special prices for all the violists in town…<\/p>\n Here’s a brief excerpt from the WW article, and Beliakoff is owner of the well-regarded restaurant Roux<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Beliakoff, in a Willamette Week<\/em> exclusive, says in April of 2009 he will open a cafe, called Viola <\/strong> (named for the stringed instrument, not the plant), in a jewel-box sized space in the upper southwest corner of the new park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just saw this over at the Exploration of Portland Food and Drink blog, then read the story at WWeek – the South Park Block #5 will have a new restaurant built over part of it – called – VIOLA (!)\u00c2\u00a0 Wonder if they’ll have special prices for all the violists in town… Here’s a brief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[139,142,22],"tags":[3660],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-restaurants-food-drink","category-viola","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-i3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4334,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/04\/a-very-viola-easter\/","url_meta":{"origin":1119,"position":0},"title":"a very viola easter","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This amazing dessert (a viola and two eggs) is made of tons of hazelnut mousse and puff pastry, with some delicious chocolate topping to complete the effect.\u00a0 It's a viola-tastic (viola-tasty?) creation engineered (imagineered?) by Badbeard himself (with upcoming Badbeard action figures) Justin Kagan.\u00a0 What an amazing dessert from an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "food & drink"","block_context":{"text":"food & drink","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/food-drink\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3867,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/21\/violetta\/","url_meta":{"origin":1119,"position":1},"title":"violetta","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"You may recall a year or so ago I posted an entry about the new Park Block that was being planned at SW Park and Taylor in downtown Portland. \u00a0Included in the plan was a small, glass-enclosed restaurant space that had a lessee in place - and they planned to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "food & drink"","block_context":{"text":"food & drink","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/food-drink\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/10\/montreal-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":1119,"position":2},"title":"montr\u00c3\u00a9al report","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, my time at the XXXIVth Int'l Viola Congress has come to an end. 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