Table, kitchen blend at Pine St.

“It’s the concept of ‘you are in our home,’” Chef Nathan Morgan said. “We want the diner to feel like they are part of what is going on back there. We want to showcase that.”

“You’re in the family when you’re here for a meal,” said Megan Davis.

Central to the dining room is the communal table that is a practical symbol of that sentiment, and what brought Morgan and his three partners together to create the restaurant. It’s a “rescue table,” as Clint Harris calls it, from a Safeway, one very much like the long table the quartet sat around and “got to know and trust each other,” as Jen Peterson put it. Much of the trim and some of the table tops are also from reclaimed wood.

Harris and Davis, who are married, opened Pine Street Bakery four years ago, using their experience from the family’s Grand Central bakeries. Harris served as designer and builder, while Davis handles the businesses’ day-to-day operations. Peterson manages the bakery and is a trained pastry chef with catering, brewery and front-of-house experience. Morgan served as chef at Nora’s Table (now Kin) and at Portland restaurants including Vindaloo. He has set aside his Columbia Cochon charcuterie pop-up business while establishing Pine Street Kitchen.

Also on the Heights …

Pine Street Kitchen has seen steady business, with wait times for tables, and while the adjoining bar might also fill up fast, the Kitchen often shares clients with another new business around the corner at 1021 12th St. — Slopeswell Cider Co.

Slopeswell owners announced Thursday they have chosen a name that, like its short-lived moniker Spoke and Sail, evokes the recreational and resource splendors of Hood River — and lets them retain the distinctive double-S logo. Slopeswell went without an official name for about a month after Full Sail Brewing called on them to change it.