Bar Purlieu on Willamette Street will no longer offer outdoor dining in its in-street seating patio after a vehicle crash damaged the structure during the dinner rush Thursday, July 16.
It was the third such crash outside the restaurant. The previous incidents, in 2022 and 2024, had occurred outside of service hours, the restaurant’s co-owner Joe Kiefer-Lucas said. This one was during the restaurant’s busy time.
The in-street seating area is made mainly of wood, with a roof overhead, and takes up space that would otherwise be an on-street parking spot. Metal bollards had been installed next to it to act as barriers…