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the 2011 Dining Guide Contents SARIA DY/VANGUARD STAFF Farm fresh on campus • • • • • • • 6 Goodbye gluten, hello flavor • • • • • • • • • 4 Feel good food • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 5 Sandwich city • • • • • • • 10 Special meals • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 9 A moveable feast for every appetite • 18 Reel ’m Inn Tavern • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 14 • now accepting applications for fall 2012 How food stamps changed my diet 26 Not your traditional steak house • • • • • • • • 15 Delivery and takeout • • • • 32 PSU’s Rouge Brewery offers strange yet enjoyable brews • 16 Burnside Brewing Company is a can’t-miss destination • • 17 Editor-in-Chief Contributors Josh Hunt Gretchen Sangau, Kali Simmons, The sweet life on campus • • • • • • • • • • 24 Aimee Zink,Hannah Noble, Jeoffry Ray, student Ediors Jessica Lukaszenko, Kali Simmons, Baking as a skilled craft • • • • • • • • • • • • 25 Andrea Vedder, Janneive Schnabel, Kay Audick, Louie Opatz,Nicholas Erick Bengel, Kevin Fong Kula, Peter Browning, Jordan Burgess, Cheerfully cheap • • • • • • • • • • 29 Sam Lloyd, Katrina Petrovich, Jennifer Art Director & Woodman, Peter Browning, Jordan Cricket Café • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 30 living Production Manager Burgess, Ryan Deming, Sam Lloyd, Ben Patterson Christina Maggio, Katrina Petrovich, Vegan-friendly options • • • • • • • • • • 31 Ben Ricker, Austen Ruzicka, Kali Copy Chief Simmons, Vinh Tran, Jenny Woodman • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 34 coming fall 2012 Noah Emmet Secret spots Adviser Photo Editor Judson Randall studio, 2 & 4 bedroom student apartments + on-site trimet light rail stop + sustainability features Adam Wickham leather-style furniture + hardwood-style floors + quartz stone countertops + 46" flat screen tv included Advertising Adviser Graphic Design Ann Roman scan>learn Laken Wright, Tom Cober, Elizabeth Thompson Advertising Manager Iris Meyers Photographers Karl Kuchs, Saria Dy, Advertising Sales Miles Sanguinetti, Corinna Scott Dominique Abrams, Sam Gressett, Rayna Martinez, Jae Specht apply @ univpointe.com Copy Editors Kat Banks, Sasha Fahrenkopf Advertising Designer Laura Shea leasing center: 1951 sw 6th a venue | 503.924.0003 Cover Photo amenities subject to change | renderings subject to change Adam Wickham SARIA DY/VANGUARD STAFF Goodbye gluten, hello flavor Janieve Schnabel SARIA DY/VANGUARD STAFF someone dealing with a digestive veggies, tender meats and delectable the way to go. With a menu contain- Gluten-free system that can’t handle gluten—and sauces, Mama Mia puts other places ing both familiar and unusual for these people, its restaurants like to shame. dishes (cannelloni frutti di mare, the ones below that make life tastier It strives to accommodate all anyone?), dining here is an experi- options and easier. dietary restrictions, from vegan to ence worth having. Feel good food Peter Browning gluten-free. Mama Mia offers gluten- The wait staff definitely knows growing Mama Mia Trattoria free fusilli rice pasta as an alternative their stuff about gluten-free diets, CORINNA SCOTT/VANGUARD STAFF 439 SW Second Ave. to the usually gluten-laden noodles too. If you bring it up, they’ll take and shells most Italian places rely you through the menu, suggest- abundant Just off campus, Mama Mia Trattoria on, albeit for an extra dollar and a ing wheat-free spaghetti noodles without community support. “About program, P:ear supports homeless is home to a colorful menu filled total wait time of about 20 minutes. or brown rice penne pasta. Where Portland offers quality to a year ago, B-Line Delivery began youth as they prepare for college Gluten-free. with Italian salads, soups, pastas and But this pasta is nearly indistin- other restaurants might neglect to stopping by and delivering food with an extensive art program, Many people have been treating it pizzas. The multitude of affordable guishable from the rest of the menu, remind customers that meatballs are from places like Whole Foods. We recreational activities and outdoor like a lifestyle choice or a fad diet, options—a full meal with soup or flavor-wise. It’s a little saltier, if you held together with breadcrumbs or those who need it most get first choice, and then they go to outings once a month. but for some, it’s a necessity. It’s salad might run close to $20—suit really concentrate, but the texture, that some sauces have a flour base, a few other spots downtown. We’re Joy Cartier, an assistant director more than likely that you know any palate and budget. With fresh subtlety and shape hold up well. Pastini is careful not to make this really serving some pretty amazing with P:ear and one of its three Price range: $8–18 per dish. mistake. With a few exceptions— here are three X’s marking workers decided to build on the food—because people are donating, founders, said that she loves the pre-made dishes like lasagna, for the outside of the Sisters foundational concept of “dining with definitely not because our budget support the Portland community example—they can generally get you T of the Road Café. For dignity” and launched Sisters as a allows it,” Soebroto said. offers. P:ear has received donations FRESH MADE BREAD Cafe Yumm! what you want how you need it. most, the letters have no significant service for at-risk people in Portland. Recently, Sisters received 800 of free event tickets for its clients, and 1806 SW Sixth Ave. Price range: $5–13 per dish meaning. For some, they symbol- Sisters is a pseudo-restaurant that pounds of Painted Hills grass- received support from restaurants ize a place of welcome, warmth sells meals for just $1.25 ($1.50 with fed beef—a high-quality product like Old Wives’ Tales, Higgins, EVERYDAY! Located right on campus, Cafe Yumm! and even home. Many years ago, a drink), and allows people to work featured proudly on many Portland Poppos, Vida Café, the Doug Fir and has a devoted following that sings its Lucky Spoon Frozen impoverished Portlanders marked for their food if they don’t have restaurant menus. And thanks to Grand Central Bakery. NEVER “DAY OLD BREAD” praises up and down Broadway. Its the café; now Sisters uses the ‘X’ as a the cash. Just 15 minutes of work community donations, Sisters is able When asked what the Portland rice bowls, taken from Japanese and Yogurt badge of honor, not just a logo. is enough to earn a meal, and 60 to buy no-sugar-added juice and community means to Cartier, her Korean dishes, catch the attention 780 SW Jefferson St. It’s just before 10 a.m. and 17 percent of the 220 meals that Sisters always tries to serve fresh vegetables reply was simple: everything. “I of anyone who enters the restaurant, people are standing outside on a serves each day are paid for through and fruit. don’t think that P:ear could have SUBS and once the signature Yumm! sauce What better way to end your day cold, sunny morning, waiting for the their barter system. One of the many volunteers at succeeded anywhere else. Because we is added, it’s all but impossible to say than a tasty dessert? Lucky Spoon doors of Sisters to open for breakfast. Sisters operates with a budget of Sisters is Chad, who cleans the don’t take any government funding, SALADS you’re not hungry. offers just this option. With frozen For many of these people it may be only $3,000 a month, and according bathrooms and has been coming everything comes from the support Most of it’s dishes are naturally yogurt of all sorts of flavors ready their only hot meal of the day. to Kris Soebroto, who works on the to Sisters to eat since the ’80s for, of the community,” Cartier said. gluten-free, but as anyone dealing to be served and smothered in top- Thirty-two years ago, two social kitchen team, the café wouldn’t exist among other things, the great food. The nutrition of the children they PANINI with an easily offended digestive pings, the possibilities are almost “I like the atmosphere. It’s homey,” he serve is of the utmost importance system can tell you, you can’t make limitless. As these many flavors and said. “Seeing good friends everyday. I to Cartier and her co-workers. assumptions about what is and is options are clearly labeled, it’s nearly love volunteering my time.” “These are the kids who need the SOUP not in a dish. Luckily, Cafe Yumm! impossible to add something you It isn’t just food that Sisters best nutrition but get the worst. takes care of this ahead of time. Its don’t want by accident. serves—they are also involved in Because of the cost, things tend to savory Original Yumm! Sauce is While these options may not be community organizing. “We have a be very carb-heavy,” Cartier said. vegan, low sodium and gluten-free. vegan friendly, they’re certainly community school where folks learn “We really have a wonderful working So step right on in and chow down gluten-free. Anything containing leadership skills. We are having our relationship with Woodstock at this campus gem. gluten will be easy to recognize, and second film festival in December. Farmer’s Market. In the last two years Price range: $5–10 per dish the staff is always willing to answer It’s a place for friends and food, they have donated tons of produce any questions you might have. But but also a place for opportunity,” to us—I mean crates. That’s been a with everything laid out in front of Soebroto said. wonderful partnership for us.” 1923 SW 6th Pastini Pastaria you, it should be impossible to not Another Portland organization The season of giving is around Next to Cheerful Tortoise find something you like. dedicated to improving the homeless the corner, but these businesses that 503.228.0360 1426 NE Broadway Price range: $3–10 per dish, population’s access to good food is provide safety nets for those at risk OPEN For a fine dining experience on a P:ear (Project: Education Art and are giving year round.