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AUGUST 2, 2018 // 15 STRAWBERRY FAIRWAY By RYAN HUME FOR COAST WEEKEND Y ou don’t need to wear a collared shirt or a pair of spikes to visit the Putter Room at the Seaside Golf Course on Avenue U, just blocks from the beach. In fact, you don’t even need to be a golfer: This sports bar caters to all fans. The Putter Room, also known as the Par Tee Room — hey, golfers love their puns! — is an open, spacious affair with plenty of natural light from the wall of windows overlooking a large patio. With blonde wood paneling and match- ing tables and chairs, it reminded me of a country grandmother’s dining room — if that grandmother was fond of cow skulls, long horns and other touches of ephemera, which she very well might be. For a sports bar, the TVs are not the focal point of the layout, which is COLUMBIA BAR Strawberry Fairway always nice, but rather the bucolic view of the links out back, as the first hole spills out from the club and disap- pears into the rough. On a recent, slow after- noon I put it to bartender Matt Owen to make me a drink of his choice. Taking stock of what he had, he pulled together something new. Owen said he always enjoys coming up with new cocktails until it comes time to name them. We consulted three out-of-town gentlemen at the bar, who were renting a house down the street as part of an annual family Dining Out reunion. Owen mulled it over with guys in the pro shop. Eventually we landed on the Strawberry Fairway, which pays respect to the fruit-forward nature of the drink as well as the view from the bar. While the booze is there, it’s the fruit juice that really pops in this cocktail. You could sip one on a hot after- noon, and it shouldn’t affect your handicap. “I was going for a summery feeling,” Owen said. “You could drink a few of these and still walk home.” Or, of course, to the beach. North Coast and Peninsula 503.755.1818 www.camp18restaurant.com Favorite stop to & from the Coast Hungry Harbor GrillE 3 13 Pa c ific Hw y, Do w n to w n Lo n g Be a c h, W A 3 60-642-5555 • w w w.hu n gryha rb o r.c o m –– EX TEN DED S UM M ER HOURS –– Y PI Z Z A DA Piz 2 zas for 22 $ ECIAL! Imagine Your DEPOT DEC K NOW OPEN SP ILIES FAM OME! C WEL 3 8TH & L, ON THE S EAV IEW BEAC H APPROAC H 3 60-642-7880 TU ES seasidegolfcourse@gmail.com RYAN HUME PHOTO Matt Owen, a bartender at the Putter Room inside the Seaside Golf Course, with a Strawberry Fairway. Take a hike in Oysterville The Lunch Special gives me a chance to work on my SLICE. Slice of onion, slice of tomato, slice of cheese... Seaside 451 Ave U Golf Seaside Course 503-738-5261 • 3/4 ounce Bacardi Silver Rum • 3/4 ounce Stoli Rasp- berry Vodka • 1/2 ounce Strawberry puree* • Freshly squeezed or- ange juice as needed • Splash of cranberry juice • Orange wedge • Fresh strawberry • Ice Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and pour in rum, raspber- ry vodka and strawberry pu- ree. Shake until well mixed and strain into a hurricane glass packed with ice. Top off with freshly squeezed or- ange juice and the splash of cran. Flit the orange wedge and strawberry onto a bar toothpick and garnish. *Strawberry puree is as easy to make as adding fresh strawberries and sugar in a blender. There are also many commercial versions avail- able at grocery and liquor stores. The Putter Room uses Finest Call. —Recipe courtesy of Matt Owen, bartender at the Putter Room inside the Sea- side Golf Course, Seaside, Oregon CW Restaurant Advertised Here! 503.325.7414 bakedak.com #1 12th Street, Astoria, OR OYSTERVILLE, WASH. — The Angora Hiking Club is hiking Oysterville, Wash., on Saturday, Aug. 4. Meet at the parking lot between Ma- rine Drive and the Columbia River and between Fifth and Sixth streets before 9 a.m. There may be a limited number of carpool rides available to the Old School house on School Street in Oysterville. From the Old School House. The easy hike on level ground will most likely be less than a mile around town. Oysterville is located near the north end of the road on the Long Beach Peninsula. It is 32 miles and 50 minutes of driving from Astoria. Do not expect to find a choice of restaurants, but the Oyster- ville Sea Farms store sells live oysters, oyster shooters, manila clams, cold drinks, shrimp salad and squid salad. Other options are to bring a sack lunch or travel south to Ocean Park. Membership is not required to participate in the hikes. Angora’s annual schedule of hikes and where they occur is available at angorahikingclub.org. Annual dues to Ango- ra members is $10. For additional club information, contact Bill Herold, the Angora Hiking Club’s chief guide, at 503-468-0474, or BILLN692oc@gmail.com.
