■ Restaurant review
Turtles: Shabby-chic mood meets with drinks and food
Kristen Gerhard | Pulse Reporter
BartenderTully Spring mixes a gin martini on a Sunday afternoon at Turtles Bar
and Grill. Spring has been with the restaurant for about a week.
Kate Boney's Thirties Bar and Grill filled an open niche
in South Eugene after a failed attempt as Pinot
BY KRISTEN GERHARD
PULSE REPORTER
In various cultures, the turtle
has symbolized a number of
things. Mayans believed the rep
tilian creature was the embodi
ment of Mother Earth. In Chinese
lore, turtles stacked on the
backs of one another represent
ed new generations building on
the lives that came before them.
In Eugene, a trip to Turtles Bar
and Grill at 2690 Willamette St.
will conjure up all new represen
tations of the reptile: visions of
tasty food, drinks with fresh
squeezed juices and an am
biance of calm familiarity.
"If Turtles were an outfit, I
would call it shabby-chic," pro
prietress Kate Boneysaid of the
restaurant she has operated for
almost six years. "It's a very
open environment. At anytime of
day or night, you'll see business
men in three-piece suits, a mom
with her kids after a soccer
game or a couple dressed up for
their first date. We even get
some hippies that come in and
sometimes they smell funny, but you
know, they sure eat well!"
Originally, Boney opened a more
upscale restaurant called Pinot's in
the location Turtles now occupies.
She said the food was beautiful,
something that belonged in a maga
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