Paolo Bicchieri is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups.
While there are few details for this new restaurant yet, fans can expect more of the stuff that brought online fame to the restaurant known for whipping up Twin Peaks menus through the pandemic. The buzzy restaurant’s inventive dishes broke with the idea that Willamette Valley food needs to be approached as wine paired-bites, according to Shaughnessy. Sesame focaccia with koji butter, chitara pasta with dandelion pesto and manchego, sweet potato butter mochi Shaughnessy stewards what she calls “New Northwest” dining.
Shaughnessy cut her teeth at San Francisco restaurants Frances and Sons and Daughters and Sonoma’s Marla Bakery before moving north, and opening Collab Kitchen in 2020. In 2023 she transformed Collab into Hayward, a restaurant that’s since fetched a 2024 nomination for Best New Restaurant and a semifinalist nod from this year’s Beards committee in the Best Chef: Northwest & Pacific category. (Finalists will be announced on Wednesday, April 2.). She says that since opening Hayward five years ago, the area’s restaurant community’s become thick with talent. She wants to have a presence in that space, but room for Hayward to grow, too. The hope is to be an upscale place for birthdays, but also a spot for those weeknight dates — to make sure the restaurant plays both sides of the coin…