The Meadow

05/20/2024

It’s a wonderful week for an exotic getaway. Even if that means finding the exotic and beautiful right where you are. We hope to see you out there in the streets, in the shops and restaurants and cafés, enjoying your beautiful town.

05/19/2024

You’ll have to cross the globe, scale the Himalayan mountain range, traverse Pakistan’s northern Punjab province, and descend into the depths of the earth to find so many Himalayan salt blocks.

05/15/2024

Cheers! It’s National Lavender Lemondrop Cocktail Day! 🍸Yet another moment for celebration among The Meadow’s ongoing series of imaginary national holidays.

05/12/2024

Imagine a bookstore where books are made out of chocolate.

05/09/2024

Oh no! Our shops have been overgrown by a tropical rainforest cacao jungle!

04/25/2024

It may be raining in Portland but we’re taking a Himalayan salt shot glass holiday here in the shops.

04/18/2024

Celebrating April showers, in our windows as in life!

02/14/2024

Happy Valentine’s Day!

01/18/2024

Sometimes just need a flower shop because it can take us someplace in our imagination, like the anticipated summer of our own backyard.

01/16/2024

Forget about spring, we’ve got some full-on summer going on over here.

01/09/2024

Mmmm… It smells so good in here….

12/20/2023

🎄🎁 How cheer and colorful seasonal chocolates for all! 🎄❄️

12/11/2023

There’s nothing like Christmas in New York… especially on Mulberry Street 🎄✨🎁❄️

11/29/2023

Tonight! The Meadow’s founder and James Beard Award winning author Mark Bitterman is leading a discussion with four fantastic craft food makers from Portland. The event is FREE! And there should be refreshment and carousing.
Christine Azar, , Owner & Founder of ⁠
Sara Hauman. , CEO & Founder of ⁠
Nico Vergara, , Owner & Founder of ⁠
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TICKETS ARE FREE!
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10/12/2023

So much goodness packed into one tiny corner of our little Hawthorne shop. And somehow the shop has an improbable number of corners! The pantry section has been a labor of love; every once in a while we happen across something out there in this amazing, delicious world that we just can’t resist, and we give it a home in a corner of the shop. Olives packed in oil, Madagascar green peppercorns in water, Lilliput capers from Spain, chickpeas from Black Butte, fregola from Italy, anchovies from Sicily, mustard from France, spicy, mango chutney from Brooklyn, chili, crisp from Seattle, smoked trout fillet from Denmark, grilled artichokes in olive oil, scallop rillets, and that’s not even getting into the Yuzu Koshu, with red chili pepper, or the sesame miso, or the Roman base, or the matsutake shoyu. And I won’t even talk about the butter or the honey or the cherries or the peanuts or the pickles! And did I just say butter!?

09/29/2023

Our Mulberry Street New York shop pup Pippa is not having this weather.

07/08/2023

We're turning 17!

Not even the wildest imagination can compare with the reality of what that last 17 years have brought. We opened in 2006 in Portland, Oregon as a tiny little flower shop that also happened to sell salts I'd collected throughout my travels. Our startup capital was a credit card with a $10,000 limit, so I built our first shop on Mississippi Avenue myself, sawing reclaimed Douglas fir and cedar timbers that nobody wanted (those were the days!). This combination of thrift and luck resulted in the most beautiful, hand-touched, welcoming place I could have ever dreamed up. Over time we opened a shop in New York and two more in Portland and crossed the Pacific for a two-year adventure in Tokyo. But it was the people surprised me, who changed me.

Our employees, who gave themselves over to our mission and made it better, who enlivened our shops every day, who made The Meadow feel like coming home. The makers, whose passionately made creations awakened our curiosity and our appetites. The printers, box-makers, glass installers, electricians, plumbers, sign painters, looky-loos who just want to eat truffle-salted popcorn and dash, the people you don’t always think about, like our landlords, bankers, insurance agents, police officers, lawyers, the publishers and journalists who’ve helped share our story.

And then there are our customers, a wild panoply of kaleidoscopic diversity and oddity and loveliness and kindness and funniness and realness. To say that we are grateful for this gift—the gift of you—is an understatement. The people who have entered into the orbit of our company, or merely traversed it, have been the great honor of my life. Together we’ve created The Meadow, tiny and intimate, on an unapologetically human scale, a singularity so concentrated in its fervor for simply being a beautiful and welcoming place, that it might very well, like love itself, encompass the universe.

Cheers to us, cheers to you, and cheers to the next 17 years. May they be as sweet and beautiful as the first.

With gratitude,
--Mark

06/29/2023

Is it just me, or is summer flying by?

06/28/2023

A thing of beauty! 120 salts from all over the world 🌍

05/01/2023

💕 PSA: Mother’s Day is right around the corner! 💕

Lots of “must-haves” for mama in the form of salt 🧂 (everyone needs it), chocolates 🍫 (everyone loves it), cocktail or mocktail🍹 goodies (everyone wants a nice one here and there), pantry goodies (yes, everyone needs an olive oil to sauté with, or a chili crisp for veggies, or a cornichon for a charcuterie board, or a honey 🍯 to swirl in tea 🍵, and speaking of tea, we have that, too). What I’m saying is: we have something for everyone! If that someone is into food 🍱

Need help deciding? Come on down to the shop or give us a call at 503-288-4633 - We’re here to help and we love to chat 🛍️

04/20/2023

Who’s going to awards 🥇 at this weekend? 98% of the Portland Meadowlings will be there! Come say HI 👋🏽 to us!

And congrats to the nominees:

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03/10/2023

Gorgeous day to be in the meadow…

02/14/2023

Happy Valentine’s Day to all the lovers out there!

12/23/2022

We’re (mostly!) closed at our portland shops today due to icy 🥶 stormy 🌊 weather. Back tomorrow - all this chocolate and more awaits! Stay warm out there 🔥

12/11/2022

Q: How can so many wonders and delights fit in such a tiny shop?
a) magic
b) compression straps
c) fill in the blank ______

12/07/2022

A gorgeous, unbroken window. 🌲🎁

9 days left to send your gifts online (shipping around the clock ⏰ 16 hours a day!) and 18 more days to shop with us in person!

Holiday Hours:

Mulberry (between Prince & Spring)
Monday - Thursday 11am to 8pm
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am to 9pm

Hawthorne
Monday - Friday 11am to 7pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am to 7pm

Mississippi
Everyday 11am to 7pm

NW 23rd
Everyday 10am to 8pm

12/04/2022

Oh nooooo! Someone broke into our shop and it wasn’t Santa. Walked in, casually helped himself to a few chocolate bars (, ) grabbed a few bottles of wine, and went on his way. This is the 8th broken window or door, the third burglary, and 14th call to the police in 2021/22. Emotional and costly though these events are, we still believe in the importance of the vibrant shopping streets where we can enjoy and share our cities.

12/02/2022

Hello Portland! Back for our monthly post 😂

Cocktail 🍸 Party Pop Up TODAY, tomorrow and Saturday at our Portland shops with bitters. Get thee down to our NW 23rd shop today from 4-7pm for free bitters cocktails, popcorn, peanuts and lots of good jokes. See you soon!

11/14/2022

We’re back! With a Mashed Potato Love Story 🥔 💕

Black Truffle, French Onion Salt 🧅 and Oregon’s own Rogue Creamery Blue Cheese Salt 🧀 now in stock online. Coming to a shop near you Tuesday.

08/24/2022

Our first salt block cooking class since forever! Salt block caprese salad, salt-seared flank steak with salsa verde in a salt mortar and pestle, and chocolate fondue in a salt bowl. 🙌🏽 Still a few spots left for class on Thursday at our NW 23rd shop in Portland! Last class until summer 2023!

03/28/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Margaret Lechich-LeMar: The Meadow Springs with Joy

I love the Meadow. It turns my utilitarian kitchen into a play shop with salts, chocolates, and bitters. I always visit when in Portland. This time they delivered my favorite tastes to New Orleans. It was well wrapped and everything made it safely. I recommend both receiving shipments and going to the store.

https://themeadow.com/products/himalayan-pink-salt-dish

Our favorite shallow salt dish for serving chilled salads and tapas-style plates! Add Bitterman's Salt Block Grilling or Salt Block Cooking in the drop down menu to make it a combo. Our Pink Himalayan Salt Dish stands 2 inches high and 8 inches in diameter, making it a well-proportioned, slightly...

03/26/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Robert Brewster: Amazing Salt!!!

I first read Mark Bitterman's book "Salted" and it opened my eyes to the world of salt. This salt is incredible on steaks, soups, and just about anything that cooks slow. Would and have recommended this product to friends and defiantly will buy from here in the future. If your thinking about buying anything from this website all i can say is do it! You will be extremely happy you did.

https://themeadow.com/products/bittermans-sel-gris-sea-salt

Bitterman's Sel Gris is a classic French sel gris and makes an tremendous replacement for all coarse industrial kosher and sea salts (unless you're using it in a grinder - in that case, check out Brazilian Sal Grosso). The culmination of two millennia of salt making experience on the French coast, t...

03/26/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Mar: WoodBlock Chocolates

One of the best dark chocolates I've ever tried & I keep coming back to the Meadow more of the Ecuadorian chocolate by Woodblock.

https://themeadow.com/products/woodblock-ecuador-70-balao

This chocolate bar is crafted using cacao beans from Ecuador. Flavor Notes: Marshmallow, Coffee, Milk, Biscuit, and Roasted Walnuts. Woodblock chocolate was the first bean to bar chocolate maker in Portland, Oregon. Founded and operated by husband and wife Jessica and Charley Wheelock, Woodblock cho...

03/26/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Samantha Brotman: Amazing!

Tastes great on popcorn. A little goes a long way!

https://themeadow.com/products/black-truffle-italian-sea-salt

Our house-made Italian Black Truffle Salt is the most cost-effective way to keep truffles in your diet! Just sprinkle a pinch over any dish, from eggs to roasted vegetables, french fries to steak, and experience the full impact of truffle flavor. Black Truffle salt exemplifies the extraordinary powe...

03/26/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Richard Kennedy: Wrong Item sent

Packing slip says salt and pepper but received Salumami.Your shipping dept needs glasses.

https://themeadow.com/products/salt-pepper

Kind of obvious, isn't it? But so often the most obvious things are the most wonderful. Open a jar, breath in the resinous, citrusy, bold aroma, and sprinkle your way to some mighty amazing flavor. Hand harvested fleur de sel is carefully infused with fresh-cracked organic tellicherry peppercorns to...

03/25/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from patrick knisley:

Bitterman's Fleur de Sel Sea Salt

https://themeadow.com/products/bittermans-fleur-de-sel-sea-salt

A percent of every purchase of our 2.5lb bag of Guatemalan fleur de sel is donated to support young child education in Guatemala. Bitterman's Fleur de Sel is hand harvested from solar-evaporated salt ponds by skimming just the finest crystals from the surface. This Fleur de Sel is made in Guatemala....

03/24/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Michael Boren: Bitterman Saffron Salt

Fabulous. This salt has the essence of saffron embedded in it. I like it in rice and seafood dishes. Enjoy!

https://themeadow.com/products/saffron-salt

Saffron blended perfectly with sea salt, its the most cost-effective way to keep saffron in your diet! I'm not even the out-of-control saffron freak that some people are, but this elegant yet pungent saffron salt is something that, like cell phones and yoga mats, you just seem to need once you get u...

03/13/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Dena Wingett: Great customer service

My brother loved his birthday presents of the different salts since it was delayed in shipping they threw in cheddar salt which he was excited to use on his homemade Mac and Cheese

https://themeadow.com/products/grilling-salt-set-2oz-jars

Set fire to flavor! Master the flavor of outdoor cooking! Whether you're grilling steak or shrimp, corn on the cob or zucchini straight from the garden, these chef's favorites are bold enough to stand up to every grilled, roasted, and barbecued food. Pick up a copy of Mark Bitterman's Craft Salt Coo...

03/08/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Donalda Reid: A “gift” from the Meadow to me

I arrived at my hotel in NYC and was told I had a package and a “gift bag” waiting for me. Imagine my surprise when I discovered the gift was my order from the Meadow. It was a delight. Thank you.

https://themeadow.com/products/scrappys-gift-pack-orange

Scrappy's is a line of hand crafted bitters from Seattle, Washington. These bitters can be used in soda water and cocktails. This gift box contains four Scrappy's flavors: Lavender, Chocolate, Cardamom, Grapefruit.

03/08/2019

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Raphael Cheli: I love it!

Everyone in the family loves the buttery popcorn salt. We put it on our veggies, in our chicken pot pie, and of course popcorn.

https://themeadow.com/products/bittermans-buttery-popcorn-salt

Seriously, what's better than butter and salt on popcorn? A few things, actually. First off, more butter, and good salt. With that foundation build from there, with the tang of locally made green onion powder, the umami umph of nutritional yeast, and just a hint of international spices to take the s...