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Nov. 19, 2017– Guilder

Posted on November 26, 2017 by howpamfam

Guilder is one of those full service shops that also serves a limited menu of breakfast and lunch dishes, and alcohol, as well as pastries and hot drinks.   It’s located in a stylish, recently constructed two-story brick building on … Continue reading →

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November 12, 2017– St. Honore Boulangerie/Downtown

Posted on November 22, 2017 by howpamfam

With outlets in the residential areas of NW Thurman and SE Division, we’re very happy to see St. Honore’s prized pastries being made available to residents and visitors in the downtown center of town.  The spot they moved into has … Continue reading →

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Oct. 29, 2017– Oracle Coffee Co.

Posted on November 22, 2017 by howpamfam

Oracle is the most recent coffee shop to open in the S. Waterfront area, it is vegan through and through, and thanks to Willamette Week we learned it’s co-owned by the drummer of the Fall Out Boys, a popular band … Continue reading →

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Oct. 15, 2017– Revisiting Tabor Bread

Posted on November 18, 2017 by howpamfam

On this crisp fall day, 4 of us met at Tabor Bread, one of our favorite bakeries for hanging out, not to mention their tasty pastries.  Unlike a lot of bakeries that thrive on high turnover, Tabor has more a … Continue reading →

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October 1, 2017– Back to Groundwork/Hawthorne

Posted on November 18, 2017 by howpamfam

Partly to use a couple of $1.00 off coupons we had scored at Groundworks’ NW roastery/shop,  partly to more consciously compare this newer shop that we do like with older first wave shops, and partly to learn what Groundwork – … Continue reading →

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Sept. 17, 2017– Groundwork Coffee Co./NW Vaughan

Posted on October 1, 2017 by howpamfam

As stated when we visited Hawthorne’s Groundwork, Los Angeles-based Groundwork Coffee recently acquired Kobos’s roastery and shop in NW to add to its existing two PDX shops.  (Because of Groundwork’s emphasis on building community and organic products, we feel fine … Continue reading →

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Sept 3, 2017– Revisiting Upper Left Roasters

Posted on October 1, 2017 by howpamfam

One can classify the evolution of coffee shops in several different ways.  Our perspective views their first phase as being unpretentious, neighborhood-based spaces that served as local meeting places, and served coffee; the second phase keyed into the their  providing … Continue reading →

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Sept. 10, 2017– Revisiting Groundwork Coffee Co./Hawthorne

Posted on September 19, 2017 by howpamfam

L.A.’s Groundwork Coffee Co. – a roaster since 1990 and now operator of 11 So Cal outlets – bought 2 Tin Man’s shops on SE Hawthorne and SW 1st last summer.  Now they’ve also acquired the former Kobos roastery on … Continue reading →

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August 13, 2017– Revisiting See See’s Coffee Shop

Posted on September 16, 2017 by howpamfam

Within See See’s Motorcycle building is a coffee outlet that serves as a model for being a meeting place for a particular clientele, (or neighborhood.)  Roughly half of its customers seemed to be motorcyclists on the times we’ve visited, even … Continue reading →

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July 30, 2017– Revisiting Jet Black, Yet Again

Posted on September 16, 2017 by howpamfam

Unprecedented for the biking/coffee shop group, this was H’s 3rd trip to the same shop this month.  Each time he persuaded a different bike member to go, still giddy that the Jet Black owners would invest time and money to … Continue reading →

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