Cheryl's on 12th

Cheryl and Ed Casey met in the service industry when they were just kids. (In the late 1970s, they helped open one of Oregon's first T.G.I. Friday's.) Before long, they were hitched and spent the next several years working in the industry as executives and franchisees. When one of their businesses, Portland's As Good As It Gets Catering, outgrew its digs, they went looking for new ones, finally settling into a 3,000-square-foot kitchen in a basement in Portland's West End. But it's what's happening above ground that has West Enders talking, because the Casey’s new street-level market and cafe offers local and imported gourmet goods, grab-and-go sandwiches, and breakfast, brunch and lunch items like omelets, huevos rancheros, roast beef bánh mìs, bowls of meaty and vegan chili, fresh-baked cookies, and tarts and cakes, as well as rotating dinner specials and wine by the glass. Chad Walsh, 11/6/2012