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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1987)
HARRIET’S í A ® Monday through Friday Breakfast 7-11:30 Lunch 11:30-3 Saturday & Sunday Breakfast 8-3 NORTHERN ITALIAN CUISINE SEVEN-COURSE DINNERS 28 Southwest First Avenue 243-2109 Third floor of the Skidmore Fountain Building on the MAX line • •• . V . afè c '"Monday tv. Saturday 5 v ¡¡¡L Specializing in Belgian and Dutch Indonesian Cuisine IL ROSE GARDEN PATIO OPEN rntT. D ine outside or in air-conditioned com fort indoors. Full course dinners between $5.95 & $12.95 Comer NW 23rd & Pettygrove / 221-4245 visit our Chocolate Raspberry Cafe on SW 9th & Morrison — 295-1124 or Chocolate Raspberry (wholesale & retail) at our 21st Ave. location — 295-2779 RUBYFRUIT CAFE 161 6 N .W . M A R S H A L L 2 2 2 -7 0 6 7 OPEN EVERY NIGHT FROM 5 PM ON LIGHT MEALS TO COMPLETE DINNERS • DESSERTS • FULL BAR SUNDAY BRUNCH 10 A M -2 PM BREAKFAST FRI. & SAT. AFTER M IDNIGHT RELAXING-INTIMATE-SLOW DANCING ALL EVENING w - to :oo 'Tor reservation^ 205-6407 Raleigh Hills 297-8424 PETTYGROVE HOUSE CAFE des T > IN N F K THE ORIGINAL / / NORTHWEST STYLE PIZZA Downtown 224-5477 ^PSU Campus 224-0311 :: ios 7 n w 'Kearney ' DINING OUT Cascades ners come with soup or salad; the former is inevitably chockahlock with integrity. Here's a restaurant whose several vegetar On Portland’s power alley of dining, hard ian dishes have little relation to our con by cholesterol palaces where pastrami and ventional images of vegetarianism. Squash cinnamon rolls still hold sway, there’s a enchiladas with an avocado-and-red-onion monument to trimmer, more up-to-date din salsa ar« heady with fresh coriander; the city ing. Cascades, originally conceived as an doesn’t possess a better Mexican dish. A emporium of “spa cuisinei’ is one of the more ordinary entree is a succulent roast healthiest and tastiest new places in the city. chicken with 40 garlic cloves. A lasagne The fare was inspired by that of luxurious stuffed with duck and wild mushrooms is fat farms, where pampered guests dine on a rich new treatment of an old favorite The nutritious and gorgeously prepared food. scallops in orange sauce and duck breast Modified for tastes not exactly Spartan, it’s in blueberry sauce speak for themselves. a far cry from yogurts, grains and other A small, carefully selected dessert tray deprivations of health-food enthusiasts. keeps the quality high throughout. A poach Cascades does much of its cooking in ed pear in burgundy is most fitting, though non-stick pans requiring little oil. Salting for those who feel to restrained by such is minimal; grilling, steaming and roasting modesty, a chocolate hazelnut torte in an are favored. Presentations are striking— intense raspberry sauce is just the thing. splashes of color that jostle each other for Decor is simple, even self-effacingly plain, attention: ruby, jade, gold in an enameled a kind of Denny’s with a touch of class. The setting. hedonism-cum-health is a signal of what’s Under the category of “small plates” are ahead when fresh, local ingredients fuel the such California refugees as fresh mozzarella right-minded intentions of a virtuous with fire-roasted peppers, and briny clams kitchen. steamed with peas and fresh mint. All din- — Roger Porter in Portland REPRINTED BY PERMISSION OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST MAGAZINE, JUNE 1987 333 N.W. 23rd Avenue, Portland, (503) 274-2305 Cascades NORTHWEST REGIONAL CUISINE 333 N.W. 23rd Ave., Portland, OR 97210, 274-2305 BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER—DAILY — Just Out. 21. July, 1987 . HoI ./lut 0£ uiO Uu
