ADDRESS 2921 NE Alberta St, Portland OR 97211 | PHONE: (503) 473-8657
HOURS Wednesday - Friday, 11:30AM - 9PM | Saturday 9AM - 9PM | Sunday 9AM - 4PM
HAPPY HOUR All Day Wednesday. Thursday - Saturday 4 - 6PM
How to Make the Perfect Crepes: Five Tips from Suzette
Featured in The Kitchn
When she was a pastry chef at Chez Panisse, Jehnee Rains was asked to develop the restaurant's recipe for Crêpes Suzette. From the testing and retesting of several versions, she came up with what turned out to be the Holy Grail of sweet crêpes. She shared a few unusual tips that make these perfectly sweet crêpes stand out — and one very unusual ingredient. Can you guess? read more>>
Mais Oui!
Portland Picks
Our 2010 goal is to visit Europe. We haven’t been in more than five years and have been longing for a Euro-tour with the Hubs. Our hope is to fly into London, catch the train to Paris, over to Switzerland, up to Germany, over to Amsterdam… or maybe just Paris? But until Tour de Europe 2010 embarks, we plan on getting our Euro-fix at Suzette, NE Alberta’s newest creperie and dessert cart. We have never tasted such authentic or delicious crepes in Portland. Ever. Suzette offers crepes of both the savory and sweet varieties in addition to a robust “build your own” menu that allows for seemingly endless combinations of deliciousness. (We confess that we also ordered a breakfast appetizer comprised of their divine little teacakes. We’re still debating whether we like our appetizer or our main course better.) So, yeah, that whole Europe thing? Maybe we’ll just stay in Paris… or maybe we’ll just stay in Portland! After all, we can get the essence of Paris—or at least a delicious taste— right down the street at Suzette.
By Grant Butler, The Oregonian
February 11, 2010, 4:17PM
Chef Jehnee Raines knows how to tackle a sweet tooth. Her background includes stints making desserts at Bluehour, Clarklewis and the closed Ripe restaurant group, before she settled into a delicious groove with Suzette, an Alberta District crepe restaurant where she's showing a knack for savory dishes, too. You traipse down a gravel walkway and order dishes from the window of a sleek Airstream trailer, then you head into the old building that's been redone into a bright dining room. It's a near-perfect cross section of Portland's indie spirit and seriously good food. read more>>
Going vegan: A day of dining out is easy in Portland -
a 'vegan paradise'
By Grant Butler, The Oregonian
February 5, 2010, 6:00AM
When I decided to go vegan, one of the first people to offer kind words and encouragement was Erik Marcus, who publishes the enormously useful website Vegan.com. He assured me that dining out as a vegan would be a snap. "Portland is vegan paradise," Marcus wrote. "You're making the switch in about the easiest city in the world." read more>>
Surprising Crepes and Plenty of Charm
By Patrick Alan Coleman, February 4, 2010
IT WOULD TAKE a Venn diagram to accurately describe NE Alberta's Suzette. Somewhere in the intersecting ovals of café, cart, and restaurant, you'd find a small area (let's shade it mauve) denoting the quirky little Northeast Portland crêperie. The best way to wrap your head around the place is to imagine a café, situated in a tastefully appointed shed on the set of a Fellini film, supplied by a mobile kitchen operated from a sleek Airstream trailer. The whole place has the feel of a semi-permanent gypsy encampment, as if at any moment the lovely chef, Jehnee Rains, might hitch up her trailer and move on to some small troubled town, which will rediscover its zest for life through a series of silly misadventures involving crêpes.
read more>>
Platter: Jehnee Rains takes the reins at Suzette
October 29, 2009, 4:30PM
It may be the fastest change of hands in restaurant history. On Sept. 19, Northeast Alberta Street's Tour de Crepes powered down. Five days later, esteemed pastry chef Jehnee Rains -- whose résumé spans Chez Panisse and three Bruce Carey restaurants -- reopened it as Suzette, also a creperie, but one boasting homemade ice creams, quality ingredients and addictive cider caramel sauce. read more>>
Dessert talent goes solo with new cart-eatery on
Alberta Street
By Karen Brooks, September 15, 2009, 2:47PM
Jehnee Rains, one of Portland's top dessert talents, is opening her first solo project, Suzette - a combination food cart and eatery at 2921 Northeast Alberta St., scheduled to open Sept. 24. The sweetly oddball space combines an old Streamline trailer and a funky standalone building for indoor seating. It opened to acclaim in 2005 as Fold Creperie; more recently, it was home to the less-exciting Tour de Crepes.
Rains is planning more than a crepe stop this time around. Her current dream list includes morning pastries, soup and salad, sweet and savory crepes, plus what you'd hope from a pastry chef who decamped early on in her career at Chez Panisse: desserts. A dining room makeover and beer/wine are in the works, and the plan includes French film night on Fridays. In an email message, Rains says "This all happened very quickly: 23 days between answering the Craigslist ad to opening for business. What was I thinking?"
Sounds very Portland to us.
Stay tuned for more details.
September 23, 2009
The space from whence no crêpes return will soon boast another tenant. Suzette, a crêperie and dessert spot helmed by former Chez Panisse and Bluehour pastry chef Jehnee Rains, will open this Thursday in the lot at 2921 NE Alberta St.—the same space last occupied by Tour de Crêpes, and before that by Fold Crêperie. There’s hope this eatery will stay put: Rains plans to fight the French pancake curse with French almond teacakes, housemade ice cream and crème brûlée baked in little Mason jars—not to mention an arsenal of sweet and savory crepes served with champagne, wine and beer 9 am to 9 pm Wednesday through Sunday.
