Cynthia

Restaurant website
Location: North Portland (Portsmouth) almost to St. Johns
Price to fill up two people: $40-$50

If you’re a glassist or ceramicist in Portland, you’ve probably been to Harbor Freight and Georgie’s, right? If you just keep heading down that road (Lombard), almost to St. Johns, you’ll drive by (and probably miss) the Fishwife. That’s a shame, [...]

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Bread & Ink Cafe website
Location: SE Hawthorne district
Price to fill up two people for dinner: About $70

The Spanish tapas place we aimed for had gone out of business, so Robyn and I strolled Hawthorne looking for the next best thing. I remembered reading about Bread & Ink somewhere, the menu was impressive, and so we [...]

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Jake’s Website
Location: Pearl (across Burnside)
Cost to fill up two people: $80-$100

My online buddy Gary was in town, so we caught some glass art and headed to the Pearl for dinner. After sifting through choices, we settled on one I’d heard about, Jake’s, off 12th and Burnside. I’m usually leery of any restaurant with the word [...]

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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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Skyline Drive-in website (CitySearch)
Location: NW Portland (Cornell & Skyline)
Cost to fill up two people: About $18

If you’re looking for the old-fashioned carhop skating to your rolled-down window, this ain’t it, although there’s a mural of same painted in the stalls where that used to happen.
But in every other respect, Skyline Drive-in is a 50s throwback, [...]

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