Brooke Geery

cafes

Hawthorne Street Cafe

3354 SE Hawthorne Blvd Date of visit: September 24, 2009 Price for 2 (with tip) $24.40 The Hawthorne Street Cafe is a oddly named place, with Hawthorne being a boulevard and all, but that's not the only thing unique about it. It's situated in an old, misplaced farm house on the corner of 33rd Ave, and from the outside, seems more on the upscale end of the spectrum. But immediately upon walking in, I felt like I'd ended up back in Vermont, in a country cafe complete with red checkered table clothes and a sloping porch where we were seated. The menu is standard breakfast and lunch fare, with breakfast…
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Cup and Saucer

3566 SE Hawthorne Blvd http://www.cupandsaucercafe.com/ Dates of visits: 7/19/09 and 7/25/09 Price for 2: $22 The Cup and Saucer cafe is actually a chain of three Portland restaurants, and more of a breakfast spot than lunch. That said, we've visited it on several occasions, usually for weekend brunch. But since we've got a whole lot of new restaurants to try, and I'd already taken pictures of this one, I figured it counts! If there's one thing you can expect from a breakfast spot on Hawthorne (or anywhere in Portland for that matter) it's that you're going to wait for a solid 30 minutes for a seat during the weekends. For…
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Hawthorne Street Cafe

3354 SE Hawthorne Blvd Date of visit: September 24, 2009 Price for 2 (with tip) $24.40 The Hawthorne Street Cafe is a oddly named place, with Hawthorne being a boulevard and all, but that's not the only thing unique about it. It's situated in an old, misplaced farm house on the corner of 33rd Ave, and from the outside, seems more on the upscale end of the spectrum. But immediately upon walking in, I felt like I'd ended up back in Vermont, in a country cafe complete with red checkered table clothes and a sloping porch where we were seated. The menu is standard breakfast and lunch fare, with breakfast…
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Cup and Saucer

3566 SE Hawthorne Blvd http://www.cupandsaucercafe.com/ Dates of visits: 7/19/09 and 7/25/09 Price for 2: $22 The Cup and Saucer cafe is actually a chain of three Portland restaurants, and more of a breakfast spot than lunch. That said, we've visited it on several occasions, usually for weekend brunch. But since we've got a whole lot of new restaurants to try, and I'd already taken pictures of this one, I figured it counts! If there's one thing you can expect from a breakfast spot on Hawthorne (or anywhere in Portland for that matter) it's that you're going to wait for a solid 30 minutes for a seat during the weekends. For…
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