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Paul Gerald

Review: Detour Cafe

By Paul Gerald Last Update January 8, 2016

1/16 – now closed

I was sitting with a couple of long-time Portlanders at the Detour Cafe, reminiscing about the old Quality Pie Company and what the city used to be like: more working-class, more small-towny, perhaps more old-fashioned.… Read the rest

Review: Blossoming Lotus

By Paul Gerald Last Update January 16, 2014

Note: The Pearl District location has closed.

To list the Blossoming Lotus as a breakfast place seems to demean it. Even calling it a place that serves breakfast doesn’t remotely do it justice.… Read the rest

Review: Bijou Cafe

By Paul Gerald Last Update January 16, 2014

New/Classy/Veggie You can be healthy/progressive and be a “real” restaurant!

The best way to sum up the Bijou Cafe’s standing in Portland’s breakfast scene is this: Out of 36 restaurants listed in Frommer’s Portland guide, only three serve breakfast: the Heathman, Peanut Butter & Ellies (which made it as a kiddie/novelty place), and the Bijou.… Read the rest

Review: Gramma Lucy’s Cafe

By Paul Gerald Last Update May 11, 2017

Note: Closed 5/2008

Mom & Pop/Kid-Friendly

One of the more entertaining experiences in the Portland breakfast scene is to sit at the counter at Gramma Lucy’s. That’s because Gramma Lucy’s isn’t just a restaurant.… Read the rest

Review: The Tin Shed Garden Café

By Paul Gerald Last Update May 20, 2016

Mushroom-rosemary gravy. Somehow that wraps up the Tin Shed perfectly

– that, plus the fact that when the weather’s nice there are so many people waiting outside, drinking self-serve coffee, that they put up benches out front and people share newspapers with each other.… Read the rest

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