A Fly on the Wall

You may have noticed a little thing crept up along the right sidebar there (yep, I’M A TWITTERER NOW!) Ah! How did this happen? The slope… so… slippery… can’t… resist.

Therefore the bulk of this round of updates originates from Twitterville, except not everything of course. I’m a big believer in doing my best to keep it fresh, so I try to not post a bunch of stuff that’s already posted a bunch of other places.

On that note…

Restaurant Updates:

Courtesy of The Farm Cafe

The Farm Cafe has undergone some mighty fine changes. They’ve added a lovely looking patio and tons more seating in the process. Amen to that! They’ve also expanded the menu a bit to include, breathe, chicken. The Farm has traditionally upheld the highest of ethical standards when it comes to their protein offerings, hence it was pescetarian until six months ago. Fearn, the owner, explained why:

* Sourced from a certified organic pasture
* Certified organic processing plant on the same farm
* Free range, mostly grass fed, with organic vegetarian feed
* Same farmer we have been getting eggs from for over six years
* Comes farmer direct from Scio, Oregon
* Sustainable fish is vanishing and/or polluted
* Oregon coast has been closed to commercial salmon fishing for 3 years now

Speaking of patios, wow; Casa Naranja might just take the cake for Portland’s most creative patio space. I went back last week after trying it when it first opened approximately a year ago, and the owner has installed a smorgasbord of hammocks and out-door fire pits. It’s as if he said one day, “You know what would be awesome? If we had an entire patio full of hammocks instead of chairs” and then he went and pulled it off… well.

Off the coffee wire:

Little Red Bike mentions they’re working on bike deliveries. New Cascadia Traditional, an all gluten-free bakery and coffee shop, opened on SE 6th and SE Market St. Trailhead Coffee Roasters is an new artisan roaster that sources all its organic fair trade coffee beans from women-owned farms — and if that’s not ambitious enough, they only deliver by bike. And unless I was hallucinating, Crema Coffee and Bakery now carries Intelligentsia.

That’s it for now!