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
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