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title: 'Looking for Portland pop-ups and food events? Try The List PDX'
date: '2026-09-24T05:47:56-07:00'
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# Looking for Portland pop-ups and food events? Try The List PDX

You know me. I love me an affinity map. And when it comes with a crowdsourced calendar to boot…? Hoo boy. So imagine how happy I was when [Malia Spencer covered The List PDX](https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2026/09/23/the-list-pdx-pop-ups-collabs-events.html). Because it has both.

That’s one of the many things I love about Portland. When the thing the community needs doesn’t exist, somebody around here just builds it. [Calagator](https://siliconflorist.com/?s=calagator) has been doing that for the local tech community since 2008. And now the food-and-beverage side of town has its own: [The List PDX](https://thelistpdx.com/), which currently maps 72 Portland pop-ups, collabs, and food events.

[![Event map of Portland highlighting various locations of upcoming events, with yellow markers indicating specific event spots and a sidebar listing event details.](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-24-at-5.45.23-AM.png?resize=925%2C521&ssl=1)](https://thelistpdx.com/)> Tools like this exist for the consumer, but not for the makers. Before events make it to the ‘not-to-miss lists’, there are handshake deals, agreements, informal contracts, a million to-do lists, matching assets to needs that shift from place to place, team to team. Then comes the task of promotion — vying for visibility through the noise of social media stories and posts.

It’s two things at once: a public map of what’s happening, and a member-driven marketplace where industry folks list venues, concepts, work, and supply to find one another.

Founder Miriam Portney — bar manager at Canard — got quotes as high as $40,000 from web development shops before taking a run at it herself.

“I’m not a web developer, but I am stubborn,” she said. A software engineer who was a regular at her bar eventually built the site for free, and would rather not be named.

She’s funded it herself. But she isn’t trying to turn it into a company. And that, my friend, is the most important takeaway of all. Sometimes, you can just build a product to have a product. Not every product needs to be turned into a business.

For more, visit [The List PDX](https://thelistpdx.com/).


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