Based in NE Portland

Lepage Food & Drinks is a small food business based in Portland, Ore, run by chef/owner Risa Lichtman.

The food is seasonal Jewish and Mediterranean-inspired comfort food, sometimes done fancy and sometimes done homey, because we love a bit of both. Risa has cooked in restaurants throughout Portland, San Francisco & New York for over a decade, including Pizzeria Delfina, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Sweedeedee, Handsome Pizza, and Beetroot Market. She believes in using food as a means for activism, participating in mutual aid, and community building. Risa is the lead organizer of the Portland chapter of Queer Soup Night, which gathers queer community and allies over food-centered events and raises funds for local grassroots organizations.

The first iteration of LF&D was called Sunday Supperings, a special pop-ups series that began out of Risa’s backyard in San Francisco 2011, treating diners to farm-centric, multi-course, community-building dinners.  Her creative and market-driven cooking style is highly influenced by her years spent living abroad in the Middle East, where she first found her passion in cooking. She values ingredient-driven food and building close relationships with her local farmers, and offering nutritious, nurturing, and comforting food to her community and beyond. 

Risa lives in NE Portland with her wife (slash photographer slash social media guru) Jamie. They have a cat Sylvia, puppies Reuben (like the sandwich) and Cannoli, and four chickens.  When she’s not cooking she can be found camping, gardening, figuring out a sewing project, or eating from one of her favorite food makers.