Coffee & Doughnuts, Portland-Style

Monday, day six, was pretty low key - we wandered around downtown and went to Powell's, the largest independent bookstore in the world. We had lunch at Sizzle Pie and coffee at Grendel's - tell me those places don't have the best names!

Tuesday was day seven and we kept the relaxed vibe going by starting the day (in the late afternoon) at a brewery - the breweries will have their own post later. A fellow patron recommended dinner at City Grill, a glass restaurant on the 30th floor of a downtown building.


You know dessert had to be Voodoo Doughnuts - I loved it last time!


What goes better with doughnuts than... coffee? We ventured to the Rimsky-Korsacoffee House, an unmarked, creepy-looking yet beautiful house.

I read about it on Roadside America; it's rumored to be haunted, but it might just be the mood lighting. There is something that'll you scare you in the bathroom - even if you're warned about it beforehand. (I know that sounds like a subtle poop joke, but I promise it's not. Stop looking at me like that!)


Julie sneakily took this photo of me and I love it - it looks like I'm hard at work,
not drawing mustaches and genitals on art in one of the coffee shop's books
(they encourage you to add to the book, I promise!)