Brooke Geery

Tabor Hill Cafe

3766 SE Hawthorne Blvd Date of Visit: November 19, 2009 Price for 2 (with tip): $19 Eating at Tabor Hill Cafe was sort of like eating at your grandmother's house. Well, if your grandmother was a Chinese man, who cooked very basic American food, and also sold bamboo trinkets. Since it's one of those places neither I, nor anyone I know would ever think to go to, I didn't really know what to expect, and I definitely wasn't let down. Perplexed is more like it. The menu is full of your basic American fare, but for some reason is exceptionally thick. When I got to page 3 I realized why:…
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People Still Snow Skate

For a few years there, you didn't really hear about people snowskating. It's like they went underground, and judging by this teaser, learned to film and edit really well. Considering my day job, I feel hating on snow skating might be a bit hypocritical, so I'll let you watch the video and decide for yourself. Ambition Snowskates's first full-length snowskate DVD release "TRUE COLOR." Out now. Check out www.ambitionsnowskates.com for more.
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Nick’s Famous Coney Island

3746 SE Hawthorne Blvd www.nicksfamousconeys.com Date of Visit: November 17, 2009 Price for 2 (with tip): $23.25 We'd actually tried Nick's shortly before embarking on this blog project, and being honest, our review then wasn't good. I'd gotten a burger, because the A Frame outside says "Best Burgers in Town" explicitly and I felt obligated to test it out. Jared got a veggie coney and we both had the mac salad because that day the fryer happened to be broken. We both found ourselves incredible underwhelmed, and never planning to return. But as we now make all lunch-related decisions by this blog, and Nick's Famous Coney Island is one of…
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Hot Lips Pizza

2223 SE Hawthorne Blvd www.hotlipspizza.com Date of Visit: November 16, 2009 Price for 2 (including tip and blogger discount) $10 People ask me all the time if I get free food because of this blog, or at least, if that's the goal. The answer is no on both counts, I am simply doing this cause it's a fun project. But on our trip to Hot Lips, blogging did pay off. It also helped that I knew the person working (through a friend), so I happened to bring up the fact I'd be blogging about our experience. When we were rung up, 3 slices, two drinks and a salad magically only…
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Viewed and Reviewed: Montevideo

I can’t help but feel a little bit bad for all the video companies that actually paid for duplication and are trying to sell DVDs this year. Not sure if you’ve noticed, but there are about 1000 free videos, some of them of incredible quality, just hanging out on the internet. This is not to say that sitting at your computer and dealing with vimeo glitches or your computer taking a nap is anywhere near as good at popping a DVD in and letting it run while you get ready to shred. But snowboard videos have always existed in an over saturated market, so the ample free offerings are just…
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Thai Spoon

1334 SE Hawthorne Blvd Date of Visit: November 13, 3009 Price for 2 (with tip) $17 If there is one thing Portland does not have a shortage of it's Thai restaurants. There are at least 5 I can think of off the top of my head on Hawthorne alone, and for that reason, we'd never tried Thai Spoon before. But whenever it's my turn to drive (yes, we drive to lunch every day and we've both driven to the office so we always fight over who has to drive that day) I always pick a place that's as close as possible. Don't tell Jared about this, since when he drives…
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5 Things I Did This Week

I had a good three-week run of my list of 5 things more important/interesting than snowboarding, and I still plan to do them occasionally, but being honest, I haven't really been paying attention to the outside world lately. Rather I've been perfecting my sales skills, running too many websites, and even doing a little actual snowboarding. But I know my 8 dedicated brookegeery.com readers demand new content, so here's 5 Things I Did This Week. 1. 2009 Alliance Superlatives. In years past this has been a large magazine feature, but as you may have heard, times are tough for print right now. So with reduced page counts, the feature has…
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Barley Mill Pub

1629 SE Hawthorne Blvd http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=10&id=313 Date of Visit: November 12, 2009 Price for 2 (with tip): $22 The Barley Mill is the oldest McMenamins pub in Portland, and if you've been to one McMenamins, you pretty much know what to expect. Pub food and good beer served up in whatever kitschy theme that location happens to be dedicated to. The theme here is the Greatful Dead, and the walls and even ceiling are covered with brightly colored junk of that ilk, but I tried not to hold that against them. When you really start to pay attention, there are subtle differences in the menus and offerings at each location, and…
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Mt. Hood Meadows and an Opening Day Documentary

[media id=58 width=600 height=360] Last year, Timbro had his worst first day of snowboarding of the year, ever. He wrote all about it, so you can get up to speed. This year, Meadows's opening day came much earlier than last, and unlike last year, Timbro was there. Since this opening day thing is officially getting old (and yes, we know it's still early November) we'll let this mini-documentary do the talking. This is what you missed in Oregon on 11/11, but don't worry, there's plenty more to be had!
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Burgerville

1122 SE Hawthorne Blvd Burgerville.com Date of Visit: November 10, 2009 Price for 1: $7.59 Jared hates Burgerville. For that reason he made it a point that if we were going to do this blog project, we were not including chains, so we wouldn't have to go there. I should note though, the reason Jared hates Burgerville is because you need a key to get into the bathroom and one time he tried to use the WiFi and it didn't work. And I, on the other hand, really like the place. Yes Burgerville is a fast food joint, but it's so much better than your average fast food restaurant. The…
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