Portland
Portland, Oregon is the chat's primary city of operation since 2020 — site of every documented hoen lunch venue and the implicit geographic referent for any unqualified location.
Portland
Portland — meaning, throughout the Newfound Glory Hole, Portland, Oregon — is the chat's principal geographic referent. Five of the chat's seven members are or appear to be based there; the sixth, Matt, is based on the Portland-adjacent Oregon coast at times, and the seventh, Max Lieberman, is based in Minnesota but maintains an explicit aerial commitment to Portland hoens ("Hoening in spirit from Minnesota," 2026-02-20).
Six years in Portland
The chat's Portland-related corpus spans the full chat's history (2020-07-07 → 2026-05-13). The earliest documented Portland-specific reference is by Cullen Conway on 2020-12-22 ("https://twitter.com/pdxalerts/status/…"), the chat's first PDX-twitter forwarding — a habit that continued through every subsequent year.
The chat's Portland-related vocabulary is densest in the categories below.
Portland venues
All chat-mentioned hoen lunch venues are located in inner Northeast Portland or its immediate environs. The full rotation, with first-attestation date:
| Venue | Style | First attested | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam | (fictional bathhouse) | 2020-10-02 | The chat's longest-running Portland reference. |
| Laurelhurst | bar | 2021-01-25 | The default. |
| Birdie Time | bar (admits minors) | 2022-05-14 | Modern venue. |
| Dimos | pizza by the slice | 2022-01-22 | Late-arriving challenger to Blutos. |
| Acropolis | steakhouse | 2023-05-12 | Chat shorthand: Acrop. |
| Blutos | Mediterranean / sandwich | 2023-05-12 | Evan's perennial choice. |
| Grand Fir | brewery + food | 2023-01-29 | "Lil double dip" venue. |
| Loyal Legion | beer hall | 2023-01-01 | Two locations (airport / SE). |
| Kachka | Russian-Jewish | 2020-09-19 | Daniel's High Holidays venue. |
| Hat Yai | Thai fried chicken | 2024-12-05 | Old Pok Pok building. |
| Mama Khouri's | Mediterranean | 2024-11-15 | Evan's "feeling medi" choice. |
| Sunday Sauce | Italian-American | 2026-02-04 | Source of the garlic bread martini. |
| Jerry's Tavern | bar (NW) | 2025-05-23 | Inside-on-a-sunny-day energy. |
"Portland dining month"
The single most-cited Portland-related phrase in the corpus is by Kyle Derrick on 2026-03-04:
"March is wild. Portland dining month, sandwich week, espresso martini month." — Kyle Derrick, 2026-03-04
The phrase compresses three overlapping Portland food-and-drink promotions into a single statement of seasonal abundance and is widely held within the chat to be the canonical mission statement for spring hoening. See Sandwich Week and Espresso Martini Month for the constituent observances.
Other Portland references
- Kennedy School — Portland McMenamins location (March 14, 2026).
- Helium Comedy Club — concert link, February 18, 2026.
- PDX lounge — referenced as "accepts urine samples" by Cullen Conway on February 28, 2026, in a screenshot caption that remains the corpus's purest piece of regional satire.
- Glendover Park — site of a No Kings protest (Kyle Derrick, January 29, 2026).
- PDX sliders — early-2021 Evan Bbbender food-cart of choice: "I will be bringing PDX sliders" (2021-02-04); "Well I have to stop at PDX sliders" (2021-02-05).
- PDX Monthly — periodically forwarded by Kyle Derrick from at least 2021 onward (e.g. "https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2021/04/it-s-wildfire-season…", 2021-04-19).
- Flying Fish PDX — referenced by Daniel Miller on 2022-09-16 ("https://flyingfishpdx.com/dine-in/").
- PDX (the airport) — referenced from Cullen's tarmac ("I'm sitting on the tarmac of PDX", 2022-12-29) and as the basis for the Loyal Legion airport hoen lunch sub-class (Cullen, 2025-03-14).