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U m ; h ; iv i 4-1 m e tu s { ram ed^/studios us. N o M eter to F eed “for the ~ ~ - j : of your business” \ wholesale custom picture framing and framed Partners find a new parking space for the Cadillac Cafe by Tim othy K rau se Julia M. Hcinzmann and Brooke E. Lindgrcn phone 503.493.2880 fter almost 11 years of cook ing up success, Rod Bracken- bury and Terry Hughes are pulling the Cadil lac Cafe out of the garage and driving it down the street to a larger, more functional space. Slated to move in Octo ber, the Cadillac will park itself in a n?to space just nine blocks away at Northeast Broadway and 18th Avenue. The owners— both 49 years old and partners in and out of the kitchen— purchased the site several years ago. They considered moving the cafe into an existing building on the property but found it more practical and cost-effective to construct a Despite the expansion, Terry Hughes (left) and Rod Brackenbury new restaurant instead. A l want the Cadillac Cafe to maintain its intimate atmosphere though it will look like one building, the site actually will be two adjacent say it’s not uncommon to have a 20-hour work structures with a similar art deco style. One will day getting ready for a party because they can’t house the Cadillac Cafe, while the other will be doing the prep work while the cafe is open. feature retail space. Once they move into their new space, they’ll “When we were talking with architects,” have the room to prepare for catering functions Brackenbury says, “we told them we wanted to during normal hours. be sensitive to the street and fitting into the Despite a history of cramped quarters and environment.” long days, the couple say their life together dur But function was not far behind form. The ing the past 14 years—at home and at the new restaurant space will have almost four times cafe— couldn’t be better. Living and working the square footage, and the kitchen itself will together has helped build their relationship, grow by 50 percent. Hughes declares. “Just getting to know each The cafe’s seating capacity will expand from other and, I think, probably getting to know 60 to a potential 120. In addition to a new cof ourselves, as well.” fee bar, the building will feature a fireside patio, Brackenbury adds: “I think being together protected from the rain by a roof but with sky gives us an edge on keeping things going. lights that open. Because we mesh as life partners, it’s easier for Glass walls that jut into the dining area will us to mesh as business partners. There’s a lot of create a dramatic showcase space in which the continuity because one of us can speak on couple will display their 1961 Cadillac convert behalf of the other without conferring first— ible and which might serve as the stage for occa and maybe second-guessing what the other sional special events, such as live music. Despite will say.” its commodious interior, the cafe will retain Hughes suggests: “That’s the key. Over the many qualities of its earlier model. years, we’ve realized the same vision, that same “We wanted to be really sensitive to why we ‘what needs to be done to keep the restaurant are what we are,” Brackenbury says. “People like going.’ We both see that so very much, and we the smallness and the intimacy, so we’re trying don’t have any disagreements on what our pri to keep that going. We’re still going to be just ority is.” breakfast and lunch. We’re going to cook the Brackenbury acknowledges, “We went food the same way we do now. We’re not going into that from Day One.” He remembers to radically change that real hardcore part of telling his partner in the beginning that start what we are. We’re going to get a little bigger, so ing up the restaurant was going to be the easy the atmosphere will be a little different, but part; the hard part was going to be maintain ing its success. we’re trying to create little, intimate areas. There’s going to be a lot of familiar feeling going Hughes, who was working an office job at the time, admits he was more than a little appre into the new space.” With more elbowroom built into the new hensive. He was about to leave his secure job floor plan, the two also hope to restore some of with a good salary to go into a business with an their original catering business. Before buying unknown future. In the end, however, he had the cafe in 1989, Brackenbury and Hughes given up his job before escrow closed. "But it’s just the way we have always teamed up to launch Escape from the Kitchen done it,” Brackenbury says. “All the way or Catering Company. Since taking over the Cadillac, however, nothing. ” i n their priorities have been fixed on running the Until sometime this fall, CADILLAC C afe is establishment. They continue to cater occasion al functions in their current space, but the small located at 914 N .E . Broadway and can be reached kitchen makes it difficult. And because this at 503-287~4750. space is leased, the kinds of improvements they T im o t h y K rause is a writer and editor can make are limited. They’ve done a lot of functions in the living m Portland. H e can be reached at evening at the current restaurant, but they also amkra@miUenicom. com . 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