Ricky Bella is cooking up a story
The I-5 Corridor spent an afternoon with the head chef of Southeast Portland's Palomar.
Ricky Bella will tell you he’s not a storyteller, but inside the compact kitchen at Palomar, a cuban-inspired cocktail bar in Southeast Portland, it doesn’t take long for the head chef to start contradicting himself.
It’s just past noon on a bright Friday in early September, one of the final true days of a fleeting summer. Mu…