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Flying up to Portland for a couple days and looking for suggestions on places to eat and things to do and see.  Staying downtown on the river if that helps.  Thanks for any tips!

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When are you going to be in Portland?

Flying in this evening. 

You can head out our way and see Timberline Lodge and Mt Hood. There's the brew pub in Govy that makes their own beer too. They have overpriced but decent food.

Portland Saturday market, the Japanese Garden, the zoo, the rose garden, it really depends on what you want to do.

The service at McMenamin's places is typically awful but I like their food.

For drinks:

The Departure Lounge:
http://www.departureportland.com/ (http://www.departureportland.com/)

..kind of an upscale for just drinks, but the view from the outside terrace is awesome. All of downtown is visible.

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
http://www.rockbottom.com/ (http://www.rockbottom.com/)

...more my style, good beer & grub, pool tables upstairs

For breakfast:

Sanborn's
http://www.sanbornsbreakfast.com/ (http://www.sanbornsbreakfast.com/)

Awesome German pancakes, good hangover cure

Hiking/Siteseeing:

Multnomah falls
http://www.multnomahfalls.org/ (http://www.multnomahfalls.org/)

~30 east of downtown,  nice view of the Columbia Gorge on the way there. Scenic trails lead up to the top of the falls

The Grotto (The National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother)
http://www.thegrotto.org/ (http://www.thegrotto.org/)

Not just a church. A 62 acre catholic shrine, with trails that lead up an enormous cliff to botanical garden and a Servite Monastery. And it's in the middle of the city, right next to the airport.


That's all I can think of off the top of my head. If you're still in town on Friday, Motocorsa, the local Ducati dealer, is having a 796 unveiling part from 7-9. They always put on a good time.

-Tyler

Thanks for the list.  We won't have a car, so we're just planning on bumming around downtown and seeing what trouble we can get into. 

downtown Portalnd. Depends what you are into....... There are pubs and clubs. We have Kells an Irish bar, all the way to Dante's..............where the wierd get their groove on. Its a great place. Portland Farmers market in the park blocks is a definite must sat am 8.30-2pm.saturday marketis always fun, .Kelly's Olympian on stark (?) that has an old Indian bagger in the window, Motocorsa on 27th and Wilson , Nw 23rd for shopping and people watching etc. There is so much to do its crazy!
Have fun and welcome of Portland.Try to keep it wierd...... I do! [thumbsup]

Holy freaking humidity....

It isnt usually this humid.  [thumbsup]

This is the hottest its been all year. :)  We only had 3 sunny days this spring. :'(

I think I'm at XV on SW 2nd. I expect things to degrade from here.

XV Used to have some insane happy hour... hmm... may need to try that again...

Do they still do the Rhinestone Cowboy? :o

They had a drink called velvet panties... that was good at... uh... well... getting them to drop the velvet panties...   [evil]

It's still on the menu.  My gf had a few.   ;D

Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade
511 NW Couch St.

that is all.

Okay, that's not really all.  Here you go:

Breakfast Downtown:
The Bijou Cafe 132 SW 3rd Ave.
Byways Cafe 1212 NW Glisan st.

Just Coffee:
Stumptown 128 sw 3rd (yup, just down from the Bijou) Head in here and grab a latte, pick up a Willamette Week and Mercury, local papers with events listing and stuff

Doughnuts (or Donut's)
Voodoo Donut 22 sw 3rd

Lunch Downtown:
Head up to the park blocks or down toward waterfront if it's nice, can't go wrong with the food carts!  Alder and 8th is the Nexus.

Entertainment
OMSI is cool sometimes, but we like movies and beer, so we go here:
Mission Theater and Pub 1624 NW Glisan

Or live music:
Dantes 1 SW 3rd ave.
Berbati's Pan 231 sw Ankeny
The Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave

Drinking:
Shanghai Tunnel 211 SW Ankeny (head Downstairs) Hipster type club with pool table and decent food, but definatley dive-y
Actually, just go to barfly.com and you can search for any kind of joint you want!

Have fun!

+1 to the Shanghai Tunnel.

Been to Bijou and Stumptown since they're right across from the hotel.  Walked past Voodoo a couple times, but doughnuts aren't my thing. 

We're planning on walking a big loop around town tomorrow to see what else is out there. 

Nice. 

What do you mean "doughnuts aren't my thing"?  How is that statement even possible?

Yeah, I know. Right now we're at Elephant Deli for happy hour and the drinks are epic.

Sounds like you guys are doing it right!  Enjoy!

Hubers

I like that place


and the Ash street saloon...don't know why I like that place the service is shit and so is the beer

Go to Kell's, find Laura, and mention Jacob says Hi

should earn you a glare

:D

Laura wasn't working and Lauren had no idea who you are.  :)

We ended up hitting a number of places in downtown and the surrounding area.  Our hotel, Embassy Suites downtown, wasn't in the best area and our initial impression wasn't very favorable.  Things improved substantially after we ventured farther.  People were generally friendly and most food was good.  (Morningstar Cafe has the third best breakfast burrito I've had.)

Thanks again for the info about what to see and do.