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Evoe

Oct 1st, 2008
by Mark.
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Evoe
3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland Oregon 97214
503.232.1010
(connected to PastaWorks)

Hawthorne certainly has changed since I first moved to Portland. ‘Twas once the highest concentration of hippies in portland — there were four head shops and you could see each of the others from the front door of any — until housing prices started going up and Hawthorne got all yuppified and shit.

I was recently standing in front of Pastaworks/Evoe, and I detected not one iota of patchouli in the air. Refreshing!
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Cava: Comfortably Cradled in Cleavage

Aug 29th, 2008
by Mark.
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My Timbers Army buddy Joe Joe, he of tiny stature and big heart, worked at Cava for years, until very recently, and was always trying to get me in there. I resisted for a long time, for the Foster Powell Triangle is not my favorite place to hang in SE, though not as bad as other areas with which I am familiar: the DQ next to the Jesus Complex on SE Duke certainly wins for that classic ghetto cocktail of meth heads, religious zealotry, fatty foods and idle teenagers.

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Screen Door: tranny biscuits and man-crushes

Apr 20th, 2008
by Mark.
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Screen Door Restaurant
2337 E Burnside St
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 542-0880

I’d been to the Screen Door once or twice over the years (they opened in 2006, I believe), but the brunch had eluded me, as I’ve been eating at Genies way too much, and I tend to stick to what I know when it comes to breakfast. I’ve described adventurous breakfasting as the sport of ‘extreme waiting’, and when there aren’t a lot of truly unique places to visit, I tend not to step too far out of the ordinary. Ok, fuck it, I’m lying. I’ve had rotating mini-crushes on various Genie’s employees over the years, to the point that going there has become kind of automatic.

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Hopworks Urban Brewery

Mar 31st, 2008
by Mark.
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I can’t remember an instance where there was this much buzz surrounding the grand opening of a pub. Christian Ettinger, the brewmaster and owner, was pressing palms and showing off some contract-brew last July, promising HUB would be open, brewing and hopping (no pun intended) by fall. Delays aplenty followed, but pubs, restaurants and bars around town were HUB were pouring Hopworks brews several months ago.

Hopworks got themselves open on March 25th, and I sauntered in with NO SMOKING and Billy’s Dad on Sunday, around tea time, to check the place out. I’d heard stories of the insanity–5 deep at the bar, waiting an hour+ for food, etc, but we had great timing: we slid into a recently vacated booth next to the portholes right off the bat.

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Nuestra Cocina

Mar 3rd, 2008
by Mark.
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No one works harder than the Tortilla girl at Nuestra Cocina. It’s a spirit of hard work in the open kitchen; The Executive Chef was toiling away at the grill station while the Sous Chef did the expediting. Tortilla Girl pressed out and hand griddled small, delicious tortillas at a blinding speed.

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