Mae

"In her career, Lovelace has worked at restaurants like South Carolina destination Husk and Portland’s Beast, before she began her Southern pop-up Mae in Portland in 2015." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden

"Mae should be high on the list for any trip to Portland. Southern chef Maya Lovelace turned her pop-up supper club into a permanent location in the city’s northeast. Tucked behind Lovelace’s popular restaurant Yonder (a gem of a spot that serves a modern twist on the South’s classic meat and three), Mae is the place to slow down and indulge in prix fixe seasonal feasts and natural wines. The interiors read like a dining room at an old estate, and the menu of zucchini and buttermilk soup and Appalachian lavender grits with pickled cherry chicken jus and roasted peppers had us wanting to book our return flight to Portland before we’d even left. "

"Some of Portland’s most acclaimed restaurants are contending with allegations of sexual harassment, toxic managers, and discriminatory behavior within their kitchens, after claims surfaced last week in a string of social media posts. The person who opened the floodgates is a restaurant owner herself: chef Maya Lovelace, of Southern restaurant Yonder and supper club Mae." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden

"Brooke Jackson-Glidden, Eater Portland editor: My last dinner at Mae, with its potlikker consommé and homey, braised venison." - Alex Frane

"Mae is better than it’s ever been in that new spot — go, go, go." - Eater Staff