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fast take out dine in • catering Buy Local Eat Organic Think Sustainable Sustainability Slow & Local Foods Cooking by Season Heritage & Heirloom Products A Minimized Carbon Footprint anniversary special Mahalo Lane County for supporting our locally owned & operated Hawaiian BBQ since 2001! TO CELEBRATE WE ARE BRINGING BACK THE MEAL THAT PUT US ON THE MAP summer luau special lunch or dinner for 4 2 meats • 2 sides 2 liter soda only $19. 50 3 LOCATIONS: 18th & City View I-5 Exit 182 Creswell 895-4140 (next to Stop & Shop) Eugene 868-1800 46th & Main St. Springfield-Thurston 741-7136 Café Maroc 28 E. Broadway 434-5862 Adam’s Sustainable Table ´ 30 E. Broadway 344-6948 24 Hour Catering Hotline 729-0119 open 11am-8pm daily gourmet food - paper plates food BY MOLLY TEMPLETON Taking a Taste of Town Try a few new things at the Bite of Eugene A name (biteofeugene.com) and “just got to re you a noncomittal diner? Don’t work.” want to brave a new restaurant without knowing just what you’re Part of that work was ensuring that the getting into? If so, you might want to fi nd Bite has a focus on sustainability; to that your way to Alton Baker Park this Saturday, end, those now-ubiquitous corn cups will be Aug. 15, for the fi rst Bite of Eugene, a one- used for beverages, and Waste Free Oregon, day event at which you which works to keep can inexpensively try out the highest possible what some of Eugene’s percentage of waste Bite of Eugene restaurants have to offer. materials from an event 11 am-10 pm Saturday, Aug. 15 Marché Provisions, out of landfi lls, will Alton Baker Park • Free www.biteofeugene.com Ninkasi, The Rabbit, handle recycling. The King Estate and Eugene event is also a fundraiser; City Bakery are just a part of the proceeds will few of the restaurants, wineries, brewers and benefi t FOOD for Lane County and the other purveyors of food and drink that will Willamette Farm and Food Coalition. have small plates from $1-$6 available for Beyond the immediate appeal of trial- your taste-testing needs. size edibles, the Bite of Eugene has plenty to keep you busy while your mouth is full: If there’s a funny thing about the Bite an Iron Chef competition; cooking classes of Eugene, it’s that it seems like it’s taken led by Adam Bernstein (Adam’s Sustainable us a while to get an event like it. Portland Table/Café Maroc), Ibrahim Hamide (Café hosts the Bite of Oregon each year. Soriah/Café Zenon) and Shane Tracey Downtown had a Bite just last week. What (Nib); a kids’ area; and music from local took greater Eugene so long? “We’ve been groups including Reeble Jar (appearing asking ourselves the same question,” says with Apocalyptica Fire Factory and live organizer and Eugene Magazine publisher painting by Marlis) and tango harpist Noah Steve Olivier. “Why no outdoor party Brenner. Olivier’s neighbor, a tango dancer, for the masses for free?” Olivier, who tells him “hundreds” of tango dancers will previously produced the Bite of Bend, says show up for Brenner’s performance. If that the inexpensive Bites have always you’re nearly in a food coma by that point, been a great family-friendly event, so to you can always join them. bring one to Eugene, he bought the domain ew “FEED YOUR CRAVINGS!” FREE We Have Supervised Child Care every Thursday from 6-8pm DINNER BUY 1 DINNER ENTREE & 2 BEVERAGES AT REGULAR PRICE AND RECEIVE 2ND ENTREE UP TO $15 ABSOLUTELY FREE. One Coupon Per Table | Expires August 27, 2009 Not Valid With Sante Fe Menu Or Any Other Offer SANTA FE EARLY BIRD SPECIAL All the time in the bar & patio O P E N F O R D I N N E R 7 D AY S A W E E K • 6 8 3 - 3 1 0 8 Taste of India Buffet Lunch Special $8.99 all you can eat. 7 days a week. ✪ Voted Best Buffet -Eugene Weekly Readers ✪ Voted Best Indian Restaurant -Eugene Weekly Readers Special thanks Eugene for your continued support! Sunday Dinner Buffet Special $11.99 all you can eat (children’s prices vary) Student Lunch Buffet Special $5.99 (to go only) Catering available • Full menu available to go • Delivery through Pony Express 2495 Hilyard St. • Eugene, OR 97405 • ph & fax (541) 485-9698 • ph only (541) 485-9560 28 AUGUST 13, 2009 EUGENE WEEKLY WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM
