citations & references:

• Owned by Bruce Carey who also owned Bluehour and Saucebox

  Per Zefiro’s Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zefiro_(restaurant) The restaurant was established in 1990 and closed in 2000

  Per https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2000/02/14/daily10.html Feb 17, 2000 Updated Feb 17, 2000, 4:55pm PST “Zefiro, a mainstay of Portland's restaurant scene in the '90s, will serve its last dinner the night of March 11, owner Bruce Carey said. Carey said he is closing the Northwest Portland restaurant in order to open a restaurant a few months from now in the new Wieden & Kennedy building in the Pearl District. Cannon Beach resident Ira Mittleman plans to open a restaurant called Ira's in Zefiro's location.”

         First listed in Damron Address Book, 1994 under Restaurants/Cafes, (GF)lunch & dinner, Mediterranean cuisine

  ·       listed in Damron Road Atlas 1994  Under:  Restaurants and Cafes

  ·       listed in Damron Address Book, 1995 under Restaurants/Cafes, Italian, Full Bar, (E, WC)

  ·       listed in Damron Address Book 1995  Under:  Restaurants and Cafes

  ·       No listed in Damron Address Book, 1996 or thereafter

  ·       listed in Fodor’s Gay Guide to the USA 1996  Under:  Eats

  ·       listed in Fodor’s Gay Guide to the Pacific Northwest 1997  Under:  Eats

  ·       listed in Out & About Gay Travel Guide 1997  Under:  Eat

  ·       listed in Damron’s Men’s Travel Guide 2000 Under:  Restaurants

  Per https://pdx.eater.com/2010/2/25/6742121/karen-brooks-on-zefiro-current-trenchant-lost

  “Back in 1991, long before Portland became the extreme food town that it is today, long before Micah Camden and Naomi Pomeroy opened up the restaurant that would become the cultural touchstone that Beast is now, long before Bruce Carey became a quadruple-threat--Saucebox, 23Hoyt, Bluehour, Clarklewis--mogul, and long before the Oregonian would make a blunder-headed move and let dining editor Karen Brooks go, said dining editor wrote a review of Bruce Carey and current Gruner chef Chris Israel's then-collaboration, Zefiro. And, as part of what is becoming Karen Brooks Appreciation Era, let's take a spin through the past, and see what's still current.

  Visiting Hollywood celebs and local movers and shakers traverse the weathered concrete floor and take their place at snappy black booths. A few steps down, the low-lit copper bar fills with the cleanest bohemians of our day. Radicals and rich eat side by side.

  True then, true now.”