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The Salt Exchange, Portland

February 18, 2010

Rising-star restaurant & drinker's escape: Salt Exchange

Sitting at the svelte, handmade curves of the bar at the Salt Exchange, I'm bummed in retrospect that I got lost on the way here. It's a small ways from Munjoy Hill, shares a block with Three Dollar Dewey's, and is up to something really quite special. It's not hard to find either, right on the elbow of Commercial Street's southwestern last hurrah, and there's no excuse for losing time spent, given its hybrid gallery/restaurant aesthetic. Cory, my unusually aware and attentive bartender, has been here since the young establishment opened up in April '09.

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