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November 11-20, 2011

 

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Sunday, November 20, 2011
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"Sorry, I win!" said a drunk woman as she pushed past us to her equally inebriated pals at Rouge. We have been using this new awesome phrase ever since.

A televised game kept the cheering synchronized during our supper of fish and chips ($14.95):

... and a cheeseburger ($13.50):

We saturated our halibutressed fries in malt vinegar to produce a puckery potato and pescatarian platter. This Kobe beef sandwich was a solid circle of cow with supplementary onion rings ($2.95) to gasket the goods.

We both got flights ($6.00):

... of the wet wares and found the Shakespeare Stout and Brutal IPA to be our favored foamations.

The chow was high grade student fare with good suds to back up our "sorry, I win" feeling.



Rogue Distillery & Public House

1339 NW Flanders
Portland, OR
503.222.5910







 

 

 

Saturday, November 19, 2011
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Oblique Coffee Roasters has some well selected dregs of the bric a brac permeating the premises:

... (since they purchased the property from a television series grade hoarder.) According to the proprietor, they had to excavate before elevating their shop to a suitable state for service.

We savored our sips of 'spresso drinks made from single source, house roasted beans. The heat-onistic helpings excelled in this axis of angled brew.


Oblique Coffee

3039 SE Stark St.
Portland, OR
503.228.7883






 

 

 

Friday, November 18, 2011
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We checked out the local loops at Kettleman Bagel Company where their dough "o"s attracted quite a queue.

The onion ($1.10):

... ite-ration was denser (in a good way) than those of their arc rival, Noah's, and even though they weren't mind-bagelingly memorable, they were still catchy, carbo cushions.


Kettleman Bagel Co.

2235 SE 11th Ave.
Portland, OR
503.238.8883






 

 

 

Thursday, November 17, 2011
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We didn't order the St. Honore:

... at St. Honore, but we did benefit from as patrons (non-saints) of their baking.

The Normandy apple toast ($3.70):

... was broiche bound in a bread pudding with appley augmentation. We liked this tree fruit round of custardy carbohydrate but were taken by the Croque Monsieur ($7.90):

The light slices of brioche filled with ham had a nice balance of Dijon in a Emmental cheese bechamel sauced sandwich.

The open kitchen:

... helped to heat the hoards:

... at this heavenly habitat.

 

Saint Honore Bakery
2335 NW Thurman St.
Portland, OR
503.445.4342







 

 

 

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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Our belief in Natural Selection led us to a 'tarian temple of tucker that focuses of faceless food.

We worked our way through each item of the 4 course tasting menu ($35.00) with wine pairings ($21.00) which began with a Cocchi Americano apertif:

... and an amuse of watermelon radish, lentil and pear with a dab of basil oil:

The squash soup:

... was cooler than we expected, but picked us some radiant heat from the warmed bowl. This Cinderella squash solution was shod in peppers, eggplant and pumpkin seeds and wrangled with some Riesling.

Sunchoke bread pudding:

... was a pain perdu pillow cased with chanterelles, fennel and toasted hazelnuts.

Pickled chard and pear punctuated a butter lettuce salad:

... gobbled down with a Terrapin Pinot Gris, while persimmon and endive were tumbled with arugula, pomegranate seeds and toasted pecans:

An intermezzo of quinoa stuffed peppers with yellow Romanesco and espelette foam was a cheery, chickpea and chickweed chicken-less chomp:

Beets and escarole:

... rolled in with a 7 of Hearts Viognier Roussanne in an earthy arrangement of squash, cilantro and shell beans.

Chanterelle and potato hash:

... was topped with a chard purse pulsing with lentils with a perimeter of turnips and peppers wetted down with a Dry Creek Zin.

Spearmint and lime granita:

... reset our registers with a cold wallop of puckery mint before a glass of effervescent red wine with chocolate cake:

... that was like a lofty Ding Dong with light layers of lusciousness. Figs and pear compote added a fruity foundation to this dark tower.

Blackberry clafoutis:

... was served with a cardamon almond biscotti. This mascarpone mingled, custard cup was a righteous ramekin reconciled with a Riesling.

We lucked out and got the chef's table with an excellent vittle vantage point as the cuisine crew constructed in their compact kitchen:

It's worth Galapagosing over to marvel at the French, Italian and Spanish inspired veg-iations at this evolved eatery.


Natural Selection
3033 NE Alberta St.
Portland, OR






 

 

 

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Our eggs at the Daily Cafe:

... were in a scram ($9.95):

... and frittata ($9.50):

... both of these 'semplary 'semblages were flanked with fruit ($1.00).

The bacon bedecked, spinach, fennel and Cheddar scramble was the winner. We enjoyed the chanterelle, leek and pecorino 'tata but the porky punctuation filed the frittata as runner up.

We will have to return to check out the baked goods at this easy going snack spot.



Daily Cafe

902 NW 13th Ave.
Portland, OR
503.242.1916






 

 

 

Monday, November 14, 2011
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We loved the tasting menu at Castagna so we decided to check out their neighboring Café:

... where a cheeseburger ($12.00):

... with melty Cheddar was a juicy joining of a beefy disc and tender sesame seed bun. The fries were a golden wave of spuddy strands that we relished with a 2009 J.Christopher PInot Noir.

Sweet caramelized onions coated a pizza ($13.00):

... with a crackery crust. Olives gave a saline suggestion to the sucrose circle rocketed up with arugula salad.

This casual Castagna Cafe was cool corner to grab some chow.


Cafe Castagna
1758 SE Hawthrone Blvd.
Portland, OR
503.231.9959






 

 

 

Sunday, November 13, 2011
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Olympic Provisions salumi is one of our habitual habits so we weren't shocked when their brunch brought on some appealing squealing.

A side of porchetta ($4.00):

... was a swiney spiral of pollinated pork with layers of luscious lard. We wound our way through this belly-simo band between bites of chicken potato hash ($10.00):

This fowl and fetus spud bowl was 'peckably pleasing.

House made breakfast sausages with over easies ($10.00):

... came with potatoes and toast in an Olympic-caliber breakfast.

This little eatery is attached to their chub production facility making it mandatory to migrate to this meat manipulation mecca.


Olympic Provisions

1632 NW Thurman
Portland, OR
503.894.8136






 

 

 

Saturday, November 12, 2011
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We have enjoyed Som Drinking Vinegar in cocktails, so we got a bottle for the hutch.

The recommended 1 part Som to 4 parts soda water produced a pleasing puckered punch. This Pok Pok produced potion is available at our preferred procurement point, Pearl Specialty (which has a whole aisle of bittters and an excellent selection of beer and spirits.)


Som Drinking Vinegar
Pearl Specialty
900 NW Lovejoy #140
Portland, OR
503.477.8604

 





 

 

 

Friday, November 11, 2011
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A choice of pork rinds or fries accompany the burger ($14.00):

... at the Gilt Club. We selected the swine skins and even though they weren't 4505, they were still a swell side to our juicy rare beef patty topped with pork-strami. This saucy serving went down well with our Mulberry ($8.00) and Brooklyn ($13.00) whisky-based cocktails:

The pork trotter and octopus tostada ($14.00):

... was a peppery plate of legumes, jalapeno and tomato. This was okay, but this footy food wasn't an unforgettable feat.

The bar crowd:

... was lubricated and lyrical (a group even broke into a rousing version of Edelweiss when they saw a drink of this musical moniker menued.)

We charged our Gilty goods and shed our seats without remorse.


The Gilt Club

306 NW Broadway
Portland, OR
503.222.4458






 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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