After 26 years in Northwest Portland, Vitaly and Kimberly Paley plan to close their award-winning restaurant Paley’s Place and retire after Thanksgiving service, the couple said in a phone interview Monday. The decision will be officially announced in a newsletter later today.
News of the Paleys’ plans to put their landmark restaurant and its converted Victorian home on the market had the local restaurant world buzzing early Monday. Paley’s Place, The Oregonian’s 1999 Restaurant of the Year, is one of a handful of restaurants -- along with The Heathman, Higgins, Zefiro, Wildwood and others -- that redefined Portland dining in the 1990s, pairing big-city ambition with deep ties to Oregon farms.