~ To seek out, support and provide for the people of our region while employing the global benefit of sustainable foodway practices.
~ To prepare or teach others how to prepare and serve dishes reflecting the diverse and rich cultures of our region.
~ To celebrate the joy in the entire process from source, to market, at the stove and finally but best of all - at table!
With the best interest of our community in mind, we have associated ourselves with likeminded folk. You our esteemed guest and diner, you our vaunted farmers, ranchers, artists and producers, and you the inquisitive and participative oenophile or gastronome.
A wizard perhaps, forward thinking and host to one of the Northwest's premier dryland farming cooperatives, Rene Featherstone has singularly introduced Northwesterners to Camelina sativa or simply camelina an oil-producing crop of the finest table quality. Containing higher levels of Omega - 3 than salmon, this delicious, herbacious, and fruity oil is featured exclusively at Terrace Kitchen. Come in today and sample this unique gourmet finishing oil. Pictured at Terrace Kitchen presenting packaged camelina seed.
From the manner in which the land is worked to maintain or recapture essential nutrients to the method, means, and even the packaging materials to bring goods to table, our choice for products demands perpetual review and assessment to determine whether a source aligns with our goals. One such producer, Salumi Artisan Cured Meats, makes fine Italianate style cured meats from locally sourced meats.
Fernando Divina with Armandino Batali (left) and Brian D'Amato, Armandino's gracious and talented son-in-law-sausage-maker.
Northwest wines, beers and spirits are a specialty at Terrace Kitchen. We taste continually to bing the best wines and best wine values to table. Berle "Rusty" Figgins, the "Sultan of Syrah", winemaker and most recently, master distiller of eau-de-vie, rye whiskey, grappa, and pisco among his stable of unique and highly crafted artisan spirits forthecoming and featured in Oregon at Terrace Kitchen. Pictured here with Rusty in the cave cellar at Cave B Estate Winery where, as winemaker (and of Washington's "first family of wine"), Rusty furthered the Leonnetti family's winemaking dynasty.
"Each year, we visit likeminded friends to fortify our goal of providing regional cuisine to our local guests and travelers alike. We believe there to be a significant long term benefit for everyone." ~ Fernando Divina
Fernando and Marlene pictured here for a celebrity dinner affair with Andre Soltner, chef proprietor of his legendary New York restaurant Lutece.
At his home and bastion of high cuisine, L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges, master chef and restaurateur Paul Bocuse has prepared dishes from his beloved region for decades in a reverent and joyous manner enlightening guests from all corners of the planet including L.O. SoPo ~ Lake Oswego South of Portland. We humbly take our queues from the masters.
"From Lyon France to Machu Picchu Peru, Italy's Etruscan Region to Thailand's Golden Triangle, we travel the world only to return home inspired to provide you with food and beverages grounded in our own inimitable local traditions. " ~ Zoey Divina
Over the years and through each season, we continue to visit our regions farms, ranches, moorages, and estates tasting all the while and enjoying the gracious hospitality and beautifully set tables of carefully produced foods by the producers, often fine cooks of their own merit.
"Our pledge to you, friends, is to help sustain our community by enjoining our own guests with your regional goods above those that must travel from afar." ~ The Terrace Kitchen Family
Zoey Divina wrangles goats at Lora Lea and Rick Misterly's Rice, Washington oasis, Quillisascut Farm.
Steve Smith Teamaker - come in today to taste these excellent teas.
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Resorts, Hotels and recommended regional lodging: Black Walnut Inn located in Oregon wine country; Cave B Inn located in Washington wine country, Skamania Lodge located in the Cascade Mountains on the Columbia River in the the Columbia River Gorge.
Near the Golden Triangle and the Thailand-Cambodian border, Zoey steers the cart to market.