Category Archives: Northeast

The new Prince outlet is just a half mile from our meeting spot, so the three of us took the scenic/strenuous 10 mile route via Rocky Butte to get there.  Interestingly, while the flagship Kenton Prince shop is relatively modest … Continue reading →

Three riders – this brisk, potentially snowy, Sunday morning – took off for bagels in inner SE.  Since the Kettleman’s company was sold some five years ago, bagel lovers have sought replacements, often with Bridgetown, Henry Higgins, Spielman’s, and Bowery, … Continue reading →

For almost three decades City officials have worked with local residents and merchants to stimulate investment in an area known as the Burnside Bridgehead; today’s riders, C and H, were tangentially involved with a few of these attempts.  Today, with … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

It’s uncommon for our group to visit the same shop two weeks in a row, but H was so excited about this new shop in outer NE Gateway, an area we’ve yet to visit these past six years, that he … Continue reading →

As visitors to 155+ independently owned coffee/tea/bakery shops around Portland, we are heartened when we come across a new gathering spot in an underserved area.   And so it is in Gateway where the proprietors of Jet Black recently opened … Continue reading →

Like last week when we toured around some before descending on a relatively close-by  NE shop, we three plus Ozora followed E, this time through some of his Cully projects: the commercial renovations taking place at the former Rose’s site, … Continue reading →

One of the unintended consequences of our bicyclists living in Central NE and generally riding 30-45 minutes to a shop where we can spend 45 minutes+ debriefing about the past week, is that we visit NE shops less frequently than … Continue reading →