Restaurants across Portland are rolling out fried-chicken specials as a fundraiser for the family of Cameron Addy, a well-loved chef who kept the kitchens humming at some of the city’s best restaurants.
Addy, 44, died of a heart attack while jogging on Wednesday, August 5, according to St. Jack chef Aaron Barnett, a longtime friend. Addy leaves a wife, Linda, and a 13-year-old daughter, Ella. A GoFundMe page set up for the family has already raised more than $28,000.
Addy, a Georgia native, worked at Mint and Papa Haydn’s before he and Linda opened their own restaurant, Belly, on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in 2008. After that restaurant closed in 2011, Addy ran the kitchens as the chef de cuisine at several prominent Portland restaurants, including Ava Gene’s, St. Jack and La Moule. Last year, he took over at Lovely Rita, the restaurant at The Hoxton Hotel.
On the side, Addy ran his own pop-up, King Leroy, serving pulled pork sandwiches, crinkle-cut fries and other signature dishes of the Southeast seaboard. He and Barnett also toyed around with opening a fried-chicken sandwich restaurant, Pretty Penny, soft launching the concept with an Instagram page and a “Chefwich” special at Lardo.
Now through the end of the month, at least 15 Portland restaurants will serve fried-chicken specials to add to the fundraiser, including Bullard, Tope, Smokehouse Tavern, St. Jack, La Moule, Laurelhurst Market, Big’s Chicken, Lazy Susan, Oui Chippy, Eem, XLB, Stammtisch, Kachka and Division St. Grocers, as well as London Plane and Post Alley Pizza in Seattle. Lardo will bring back the Pretty Penny sandwich -- still their best-selling Chefwich ever -- as a special starting this week.
In a statement, Linda Addy said her husband’s his grandfather, who taught him to care for tomatoes and hams hanging in the barn, and his father, who owned a cafeteria and a chili dog drive-through.
According to Barnett, Addy “was one of these guys where it was impossible to get crank or mad if he was next to you.”
“The guy was just so funny,” Barnett said. “And the busier it got, the more he would turn up the fun. He was just this amazing character with a low ego and a high talent who was able to bring the whole room along with him. He loved Coors Light. He loved Southern food. And to see the city doing something positive and chowing down on fried-chicken sandwiches in his name, I think that would have made him happy.”
-- Michael Russell, mrussell@oregonian.com, @tdmrussell
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