Cynthia

Dinner theatre website
Location: SE Portland (Hawthorne district)
Showtimes: Generally Fridays and Saturday nights (make reservations)
Cost to fill up (and entertain) two people: $140 plus tip

And youse said I don’t got no cultcha. Ahhbviussly, you was wrong.
Robyn texted me Friday to ask if I wanted to see who stole her dead husband. I briefly debated sending flowers [...]

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Savoy Website (Citysearch)

Location: SE Clinton area
Cost to fill up two people: About $40

Bunch of us were down in the SE Clinton district on Saturday night, looking for a quiet place to talk and eat. Somehow we wound up in Wisconsin (or at least the northwestern version of Wisconsin) at the Savoy Tavern & Bistro.
Outwardly, [...]

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Alexis website

Location: Chinatown

Cost to fill up two people: About $45

If you head north from DC to Silver Spring, MD, head back behind the Lee Building on Colesville and Georgia Avenues, there’s a little Greek restaurant that can make your tastebuds sing. Tonight Robyn and I hit up Alexis, which we were told would do the [...]

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Nicola’s website

Area: St. John’s

Price to fill up two people (minus booze): About $30-$35

A colleague had a small art show opening at a little shop in St. John’s (Jason Lucey, actually, who by day is an SEO expert, but also is a photographer).
Robyn and I met there, mentioned our restaurant quest and the crowd unanimously [...]

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Nostrana’s website

Location: Southeast Portland

Cost to fill up two people (minus booze): $70-$85

If you’re willing to hit the $75 range for full dinner for two (minus booze) this is some of the best Italian food I’ve had in the Northwest (including a couple of gazillion-star hotshots in Seattle).
It’s not downtown, it’s over on the SE [...]

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