My favorite dining companion and I met for happy hour at Maiden in the Mist yesterday, the new restaurant that has replaced the pitiful Sun Rice Vegetarian Chinese restaurant. The Owner is Sheila Baraga, of Empire Room and Sapphire Hotel fame.
Posts Tagged ‘review’
Aladdin’s Cafe
I love me the foods of Persia and the ‘middle east.’ Flat breads, dips, finger food and kebabs, I have always loved the make-your-own-taste, eat-with-your-hands foods that educated my palate to find some of my favorite things. Nutty tahini, well cured olives and the best olive oils, the beauty of fresh squeezed lemons, [...]
Booze crews # 4-Yamhill Brewing Company
Note: originally posted may 9th, 2006. see end of post for update.
The first impression of this place, which is in the center of Garlic Gulch @ SE 9th and Yamhill, was, um, weird. Parked directly in front of the door when I walked in was an obese, bored-looking palm reader.
The place is rough, the [...]
booze crews #6: Brooklyn Park Pub
A funny thing happened on Labor Day, The red sox won a game. Don’t believe me? Here’s the box score.
An even funnier thing happened on Tuesday, the red sox won another game, and I watched it at the Brooklyn Park Pub, on SE milwaukie, just south of Powell. Previously the spot of the [...]
loooooook into my eyes and I will tell you your drink order
Andina is certainly more up-market than my usual east-side haunts, but the 2005 world champion Chicago White Sox needed 19 innings to avoid getting swept by my 2004 world champion Boston Red Sox, so I got treated. I love winning bets.
Poorly cut cocaine in a mall food court
I spotted the ‘coming soon’ signs months and months ago. I knew it was coming even before then, from a link on extramsg’s frontpage. It’s called Kinta, and it occupies the corner spot of a new mixed-use condoplex on SE Belmont and 34th, across from the Avalon, my favorite place to smuggle beer [...]
Booze crews # 5– The Goodfoot
The Goodfoot is on 28th and SE Stark, not far from, well, everything, but tucked on a quiet stretch just east of Central Catholic High School. The Goodfoot is a bi-cameral institution with a large, lofty bar space upstairs and a cozy, awesome music venue (and bar) downstairs. The downstairs section hosts some [...]
Acme–a bar trying to be a butterfly
From what I understand, Acme was a dirty rock ‘n roll club for a long time before the owners decided to take the daytime more seriously, and renovate.
checked it on Saturday, and again Tuesday.
the stench I’d been warned about wasn’t noticeable–they seem to have renovated significantly, for both the woodgrain wallpaper inside and stacks of [...]
Booze Crews #2: Slammers
Review in Haiku (idea from portlandfood.org)
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slammers is a bar
with the strangest bartender
alive in portland
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Slammers, 9th and sandy. In an old house that hasn’t aged well, to the point of load bearing kitsh on the walls and ceiling. ATM dispenses tubes of money. Internet Jukeboxes, I’ve found, are invitations for people with bad [...]
Booze crews #1: Basement Pub
In the words of a good, old friend of mine,
“drinking is not all I think about, my interest is purely an academic one which requires much research.”
I live in Lower Buckman, near Garlic Gulch. I recently spotted the acronym ‘LoBu’ to describe lower Burnside; despite our weekly publications’ intense desire to make Portland into [...]