The Meadow

The Meadow is a place where the beautiful, the delicious, and the unexpected are brought together for your pleasure. We specialize in artisan salt, the world's great chocolate bars, bitters and other gourmet items for the bar and kitchen, and in Portland, carry a close selection of Oregon and European wines and vermouths. The Meadow also offers ful... l service floristry, and the air is suffused in the aromas and colors of fresh cut flowers arranged with imagination and a love of nature. Business is intensely personal, a creative and ever-challenging way to connect with, learn about, and go places with people. With a close selection of books on food and culture, curated works of art, and a few comfortable chairs set by the window, The Meadow is a place where you can step outside of time for a moment, linger, and let your mind wander. Jennifer Turner Bitterman and Mark Bitterman founded The Meadow in the spring of 2006 out of shared love of food and travel. Jennifer picked the shop's location on Mississippi Avenue in North Portland for its unmistakable air of community mindedness and the irreproachable collection of rag-tag businesses that had sprouted there: a bakery, a coffee roaster, a few bars and restaurants, a carpenter, a lumber yard, and the world's leading lightbulb store. The shop's name was chosen because Jennifer wanted to create a place that felt like coming home, where personal connections and sensual pleasures welcome you. Spend time amidst beautiful fresh cut flowers, taste strange and enticing foods, and explore the astonishing depth of the elemental ingredients. In the fall of 2010 we opened a second store in the West Village of New York City. Mark, who was born in the Village on Perry Street and whose parents met at the Corner Bistro a few blocks up, has always felt an intense connection with the Old World / New World vibration that fairly electrifies the neighborhood's tree-shaded streets. Just after they met, in Oregon, the couple moved to a Muse house on Carmine Street, and Jennifer felt a ...Read More