Bartender, Beverage Director, Sommelier

Emily Salko

Portland

About Emily Salko

Emily got her start in the restaurant business at age five, rolling cheese balls at her parents’ small town diner in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. After honing her front and back of the house skills working in her family’s Italian fine dining restaurant throughout her teen years, Emily got her BA in Education, but soon realized that the restaurant life was her true passion. She moved cross country to Portland on a whim, where she tended bar at local favorites Jake’s Grill, Lucy’s Table, and Veritable Quandary, before leaving to lead the bar program at Olympia Provisions SE, where she is also the general manager and restaurant's Sommelier, certified through the Court of Masters.