I started our minute amount twenty-four hours inward Portland early, jumping on a jitney downwards to Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge for a few hours of birding. It's a lovely commons - beautiful forest, a big lake together with heaps of birds. There's a slideshow below - for those playing along at home, the birds pictured are:
- Lesser goldfinch
- Song sparrow
- Bushtit
- Downy woodpecker
- A deer! (not a bird, I know)
- Cedar waxwing
Cindy together with I arranged a post-birding rendezvous at Junior's Cafe, a pop together with vegan-friendly brunch articulation simply off Hawthorne inward the South East. It's a cosy infinite amongst fashionable wallpaper, a few cute pictures together with lots of beautiful onetime fashioned framed mirrors on the wall. It's a small-ish room together with on a Tuesday forenoon things are pretty quiet, although it seems every bit though things larn busy on the weekends. The staff are charming together with friendly together with were happy to charge me upwardly amongst java patch I waited for Cindy to plow up.
The bill of fare is massive, amongst a mix of meaty, eggy together with vegan dishes - close everything has a vegan version, then there's French toast, scrambled tofu, vegan sausage, fifty-fifty spud-based brekkies (no pancakes though, strangely). I continued my adventures inward scrambled tofu, ordering the Superhero (scrambled seasoned tofu amongst tomatoes, vegan sausage, light-green onions together with spinach, served amongst toast together with spuds, US$9.50 AU$10.10). I'll say y'all this: Americans actually know their means roughly scrambled tofu - it was consistently expert wherever nosotros travelled together with Junior's was no exception. The fancy ketchup didn't wound either.
Cindy went for the vegan French toast amongst a side of fresh fruit (US$7 + US$4.50 AU$12.30). She had no regrets, but I actually idea she should convey gone amongst the amount vegan French toast repast (featuring scrambled tofu together with sausage).
We waddled off from brekkie to consider upwardly amongst the gratuitous Secrets of Portlandia walking tour inward the city. It's run past times the charming together with funny Erik Kennon together with involves a duet of entertaining hours hearing a overnice overview of the city's quirky history. Highlights include the Portlandia statue (top left) together with the world's smallest metropolis commons (bottom left).
The tour finishes correct past times Voodoo Doughnuts, but nosotros decided to concur off on the saccharide together with explore i of the big nutrient cart blocks inward the metropolis - there's something similar seventy dissimilar vendors taking upwardly the block of SW Adler from ninth to 10th. After a quick lap, nosotros settled on Los Gorditos).
The bill of fare has a complicated construction - at that spot are antipasto plates, burgers, pizzas, starters, pastas together with primary dishes. I pushed difficult for the fix bill of fare bargain (one starter, i pasta, i primary together with i dessert for US$38 AU$40.50 each), but Cindy spotted the size of the dishes on other tables together with talked me out of it. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 confession: she was totally right.
Instead, nosotros combined a petty jewel caesar salad (romain lettuces amongst vegan caesar dressing, fried capers together with garlic toast, US$9 AU$9.60), roast corn ravioli (fresh pasta stuffed amongst roast corn together with cashew cheese served amongst basil fondue together with asparagus fava edible bean succotash, US$14 AU$14.90) together with a portobello steak amongst crispy onion rings together with housemade steak sauce served amongst roasted asparagus, radishes, fountain onions together with gilded potatoes (US$16 AU$17)
The caesar salad was fleck lettuce heavy for my tastes, but the other dishes were amazing - the pasta rich together with creamy together with laden amongst wonderful fresh veggies together with the mushroom steak marinated brilliantly together with accompanied past times to a greater extent than swell vegetables. Superb. The pizzas that came out roughly us looked incredible too, but sadly nosotros didn't larn a direct chances to drive them - I justice some other trip to Portland is inward order!
Our lack of pizza was made upwardly for past times a dessert each - a huckleberry tart (short breadstuff crust, almond frangipane together with strawberries amongst huckleberry sauce, US$8 AU$8.50), the chocolate mousse (with whiskey-coffee granita together with orangish hazelnut praline, US$8 AU$8.50) together with a scoop of the salted caramel kokosnoot H2O ice cream (US$3 AU$3.20). Both dishes were meant to come upwardly amongst kokosnoot chantilly cream, but the kitchen was out (they warned us at least) together with both would convey benefited from some kind of creamy accompaniment. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 nipper electrical charge though - they were both swell dishes.
Portobello is a wonderful eating theater - it was buzzing on the Tuesday nighttime nosotros visited together with is clearly a go-to identify for Portland vegans looking for a slightly upmarket meal. It should endure on whatever visitor's must-visit list.
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