Portland, Oregon was our side yesteryear side goal next New York! I kickoff knew this metropolis every bit the habitation of the Dandy Warhols, though inwards the yesteryear 5 or together with then years it's developed a reputation every bit ane of the world's most vegan-friendly cities, together with to a greater extent than of late nevertheless it's gained widespread fame through the TV present Portlandia.
On our kickoff Portland forenoon nosotros hitting the Pearl District for breakfast, tracking downward a cafe that came recommended yesteryear ane of my colleagues. Prasad is laid within a yoga studio together with is naturally sum of raw foods together with vege bowls alongside a sprinkling of dubious wellness claims. The exclusively non-vegan element I noticed inwards their carte du jour was raw honey. Notes around the cafe asking that guests abide by the practising yogis alongside ease behaviour, but the juicer is the most disturbing patron yesteryear far.
In stark contrast to his pancake bowl the previous morning, Michael took on the Lovejoy Scramble (US$9 AU$9.60) - a bowl filled alongside smokey tempeh, mustard, maple roasted carrots, dull roasted tomatoes, kale, avocado together with scallions on chocolate-brown rice. It was definitely the correct affair to do. I worked my means through the smaller, denser Rogue Oatmeal bowl (US$7 AU$7.50) - gluten-free oats mixed alongside peanut butter, cocoa nibs, kokosnoot flakes, peanuts, cinnamon together with vanilla, garnished alongside banana. With regular dashes of almond milk, maple syrup together with a footling sneaky tabular array salt this was a rattling satisfying induce to the day. I was truly impressed yesteryear Prasad's Harlow Chai (US$3.50 AU$3.70), every bit good - it's based on kokosnoot milk together with existent dark tea, non flavoured syrup.
The Pearl District is also the habitation of Powell's Books, the world's largest independent majority store. We could conduct maintain easily spent hours inwards there, gazing at the titles together with marvelling at the prices, but our luggage couldn't grip the extra weight of truly buying anything. The veg*n cooking department was large together with various together with a pleasance to browse. Here I came across the Dirt Candy Cookbook, which turned out to hold upwardly a cute graphic novel, but the recipes required ingredients together with equipment that I'll never access.
In the middle of the twenty-four hr menstruum nosotros browsed the shops, cafes together with gardens along Mississippi Ave inwards Portland's north-east. We spent a lot of our fourth dimension together with coin at Reading Frenzy, a gorgeous independent press belongings a diverseness of unique books, graphic novels, zines, prints together with a pocket-size gallery. We chatted to the friendly possessor at length, together with she kindly sent us off alongside a listing of her favourite Portland businesses to see (in add-on to the zines, posters together with badges we'd already bought). I got a boot out of this zine most ane man's complicated human relationship alongside food. (Here's a taste: "If the texture of a nutrient is the same texture every bit I'd imagine alien injure juice being, that nutrient is going to hold upwardly a pretty difficult sell for me. Puddings autumn into this category.")
Michael had us on a class to collide alongside Homegrown Smoker, a vegan BBQ nutrient cart. These guys conduct maintain an extensive selection of burger, burritos, chili together with fried things. I uncertainty y'all could produce improve than the Half Rack Rib platter nosotros shared (US$7 AU$7.50). These 'ribs' are applewood smoked tempeh basted inwards BBQ sauce, served alongside a hushpuppy, a tub of splendid remoulade sauce together with our choice of side - sludgy, salty, savoury mac-nocheese. We accompanied it alongside an Arnold Palmer (US$2 AU$2.10), the States' clever cocktail of iced tea together with lemonade.
We took it slow for the balance of the afternoon - Michael watched alongside World Cup alongside a beer patch I giggled over my nutrient zine. In the eve nosotros laid out to Los Gorditos for dinner. While at that topographic point was a Pearl District branch of this taqueria a brusque walk from our accommodation, our mate Matt convinced us that nosotros needed to see the ane on SE Division. It seemed foreign to move for such an ordinary, takeaway shop-style setting, but nosotros were rewarded alongside an expansive Mexican carte du jour alongside clearly divided 'meat' together with 'vegan' sections. These guys are stocked upwardly alongside vegan-friendly cheese together with sour cream addition a choice of tofu, soycurls together with soyrizo.
We did our best to bridge the options, ordering a platter of tofu-stuffed gorditas (aka flatbreads, US$7 AU$7.50) alongside rice together with beans, a soycurl taco (US$2 AU$2.10), together with soyrizo-based sopes (US$6.50 AU$6.90). We'd gladly recommend whatever of these dishes, though nosotros suspect that soycurl-stuffed gorditas mightiness hold upwardly the optimal combination of Los Gorditos' enviable options.
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