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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
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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
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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
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Raleigh Hills 297-8424
PETTYGROVE HOUSE CAFE
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THE ORIGINAL / / NORTHWEST STYLE PIZZA
Downtown 224-5477 ^PSU Campus 224-0311
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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
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