Dave Knows: Portland

The Portland Building is ours!
Walking / Drinking Tour of Portland by pickled Berkely wine writer, Tim “Blind Muscat” Patterson
Just in time for the beautiful weather, the Portland Area Patio Dining lineup from Portland Food and Drink
North Portland’s got a podcast. This week’s discussion: North Portland Streetcar
Great new blog: Trimetiquette
TriMetiquette covers personal TriMet stories […]

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If you were tasked with translating the smoky, beery ambiance of, say, the Crow Bar, into a sophisticated drink, it might look like this:

3oz PBR Reduction
2oz Cigar Infused Whiskey — don’t try this at home
1oz Meyer lemon juice

Shake with ice, strain into martini glass
Read the whole post by Lance J. Mayhew at My Life on […]

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A whiff of varnish, not the bar-y spice of cigarette smoke, greets us as we enter the new Virginia Cafe (820 SW 10th Ave).
On Monday the bar moved from its old (since 1922!) space on Park. Thursday we needed a beer.
The new location is smaller. The bar is on the left now. […]

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*If you are over 21.
From the Oregon Bus Project:
The Oregon Bus Project and the Portland Mercury team up again Tuesday, October 30th to offer you an evening of rousing debate about the OLCC. This debate is the fifth in the monthly Debate Club series held at rontoms on 600 E. Burnside (this month’s at 8pm).
The […]

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Put your chicken dance shoes in the closet, the summer festival season is over.
Though the calendar is relatively bare, there are still some things to keep us amused through the wet and 40 degree season knows as Fall/Winter in Portland.
Saturday

Much of Portland’s Burning Man contingent will be “decompressing” Saturday under the Fremont Bridge at Diversion. […]

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Nothing goes with whiskey like 5th Century BC Greek history lessons. Come down to the Brooklyn Park Pub (3400 Milwaukie Ave) Sunday night at 6pm for the first installment of a three part history lecture series covering the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, and more!
This Sunday Rene Boullet will discuss the two Persian incursions […]

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Despite the Fall-like weather, Portland hasn’t given up on Summer. This approaching weekend is a case in point. After you stop by the PGE Park box office at 10am Thursday to pick up your Timbers playoff tickets, you’ll have this to look forward to:
Thursday
Your playoff-bound Timbers celebrate their final regular season match at […]

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Clear Creek Distillery’s products, in particular distiller Stephen R. McCarthy’s vaunted eaux de vie, are profiled in the New York Times this morning.
An eau de vie is most simply defined as a “colorless fruit brandy,” but Clear Creek’s “eaux de vie capture the three-dimensional aromas and flavors of each particular fruit with an almost […]

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I bought a copy of this book as a birthday present, and I should have got a copy for myself too. It’s beautiful. Seriously.
Shots of Portland will journey you through the most well-respected drinking establishments in the city with 118 pages of photographs, anecdotes, history, and short stories. From the city’s oldest […]

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Well no, but if you’d like to pass as a local when you’re traveling in the British Isles, here’s the book you’ll want to read: Passport to the Pub: A guide to British pub etiquette.
It’s published by the Social Issues Research Centre, and the entire book is available free in html or pdf format.
Though it’s […]

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