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    Beast – Now with Comfortable Chairs

    By PDX Food Dude Last Update December 19, 2014 2 Comments

    If you’ve had dinner at Beast, you are probably well aware that the seating is made up of uncomfortable chairs that were banished from clarklewis many years ago. In my 2009 review, I specifically mentioned them, but they never got replaced. At one point Naomi asked if I would come back and give them another try, to which I answered, “Have you replaced the chairs yet?”

    Now I don’t have any choice. Here is a bit of the latest Beast newsletter:

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    I guess I’m going back!

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    1. Still feel burned says

      December 22, 2014 at 10:04 am

      Last time I went there I had an incredible meal with 8 people. As incredible as it was, the chairs alone were enough to make me say “never again.” Frankly, the fact that they remained for so long is an insult and shows a lack of hospitality. Even though that was fixed, I’m still not going back. Why? Our party of 8 consumed a total of 10 bottles of wine — and a $30 corkage was tacked on to each and every bottle (back when $15 was the standard). While I accept corkage as a reasonable thing to pay for those who prefer to bring/share wine with friends, $300 of corkage is absurd and, again, shows a level of disdain for the customer I find unacceptable.

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    2. Calvert Helms says

      December 23, 2014 at 11:42 am

      Great to hear. I sat in those chairs during the early days of Clarklewis. They were so horrible I wrote my first, and thus far only, complaint email to any business noting that they were so bad that they had essentially ruined my enjoyment of the meal and that I would not return until they were replaced (and I never did). They were also the reason I never went to Beast, even though I live just a few blocks away.. While I don’t believe I suffer from Princess and the Pea syndrome, those things were astonishingly painful – they seemed to cut right into the back of ones legs no matter how much one shifted around. Kudos on the replacement.

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