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Las Tapas: Rare moments of peace

Mar 22nd, 2009
by Mark.
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In Shanghai, there are rare moments of peace.  Rarer still are moments of peace that I manage to photograph well.

Las Tapas espresso

Las Tapas espresso

At Las Tapas, visiting for a late Lunch gets you a quiet, 1/3rd full restaurant and a tasty and reasonably priced set meal.  The mackerel was excellent, but skip the potato salad in favor of the soup for your starter.  Follow it with an espresso on a sunny, breezy spring day in Shanghai, and life on that quiet stretch of Maoming road feels a little slower and easier than the normal Shanghai Hustle.  Nevermind that the laurel trees block out the three boom cranes rushing up a tower behind that wall.

Las Tapas
207 Maoming Nan Lu, near Yongjia Lu
茂名南路207号，近永嘉路
ph: +86 21 6415 9567

How Hip Hop found our dinner

Jan 14th, 2009
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Girlie and I went to the LiuJiabang lu fabric market last night to visit her favorite tailor and have a look around. She’d not visited at night before, so we were both excited to find the streets around the market were buzzing.

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Lincoln Restaurant gets lucky

Dec 9th, 2008
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Lincoln Restaurant
3808 N Williams No. 127
Portland Oregon, 97227
503.288.6200
Tuesday Saturday, 5:30 – Close

 

 

 

Barney Gumble: 40 dollars!? This better be the best damn beer ever.. [drinks beer] You got lucky. 

 

 

 

 

I could leave it here, my opinion of Lincoln, a newish restaurant on N Williams.  The food is straight forward–almost to a fault–and excellently prepared from fantastic ingredients.  But damn, that seemed expensive.  

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Green Dragon changing hands

Nov 13th, 2008
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First reported on BrewPublic and currently coursing through the PDX Twitterverse, the Green Dragon, Portland’s new but favorite institution for great beer, is being sold to Rogue Brewery.

Rogue’s lawyer requested a retraction of the initial report at BrewPublic, but the information they refute is in conflict with information I heard directly from two current Green Dragon Employees.  I don’t need the Attorney General of Rogue Nation crawling up my ass about it, but suffice to say that if the Rogue organization is correct in their specific refutations of the initial report, they’re sure as hell not telling the employees what’s going on.

Nothing is completely final, as minority owner Lolo Bruns wasn’t in on the deal with Rogue and may have an opportunity to make a counter-offer.

sad news for all.

New Deal Open House

Nov 12th, 2008
by Mark.
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I’m an idiot.  I apologize.  the Open house is for New Deal distillery.

November 15th, 2008: Distillers’ Row Open House

Join New Deal Distillery and Oregon Bounty to discover the innerworkings of Portland’s first vodka distillery and learn more about craft-distilling in Oregon. We’ll have distillery tours, treats from Meat Cheese Bread and Saint Cupcake, and, of course, spirits sampling.

The Open House is this Saturday from 1 to 5 PM at their distillery. Catering is from their (and my) friend John from Meat Cheese Bread (covered previously here). I’m planning on attending, and will follow up with pictures taken by someone else, as is my way. It should be a good time.


House Spirits
2025 SE 7th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
503.235.3174
medoyeff@medoyeff.com

It seems that this is the season for distillery open houses — we checked out the Artisan Spirits open house two weekends ago — and I, for one am looking forward to the House Spirits party as well. The House Spirits guys may not have started the boutique distillery movement here in Portland — that honor must belong to Clear Creek Distillery– but they were the first of the new generation of distillers to roll up their sleeves and make some seriously tasty booze that has spread all around the northwest. They make the Medoyeff Vodka, as well as the Krogstad Aquavit. I’m a huge fan of the Aviation Gin especially, they unveiled their new absinthe last weekend, and have whisk(e)y aging.

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