From the restaurant's website:
"Departure creates modern, accessible Asian cuisine using traditional techniques learned in the kitchens of the Far East. We are committed to offering Portland diners the most authentic ingredients, from the Mongolian steppe to the ancient capital of Kyoto for the most unique Modern Asian cuisine in Portland."
Full bar. Serving dinner and late-night Tue–Sat. Closed Sun–Mon.
"Now crowds head for the penthouse floor, above The Nines hotel, which in turn is above Macy's, formerly Meier & Frank. There they find the recently opened Departure, and it's not just a Pan-Asian restaurant and cocktail scene. It's a new planet (or maybe it's just L.A.?), ultra-modernistic, echoing ocean liners from the 1930s, maybe even spaceships out of Flash Gordon."
— Roger Porter, The Oregonian
From the restaurant's website:
"Departure creates modern, accessible Asian cuisine using traditional techniques learned in the kitchens of the Far East. We are committed to offering Portland diners the most authentic ingredients, from the Mongolian steppe to the ancient capital of Kyoto for the most unique Modern Asian cuisine in Portland."
Full bar. Serving dinner and late-night Tue–Sat. Closed Sun–Mon.
"Now crowds head for the penthouse floor, above The Nines hotel, which in turn is above Macy's, formerly Meier & Frank. There they find the recently opened Departure, and it's not just a Pan-Asian restaurant and cocktail scene. It's a new planet (or maybe it's just L.A.?), ultra-modernistic, echoing ocean liners from the 1930s, maybe even spaceships out of Flash Gordon."
— Roger Porter, The Oregonian