Monday in Portland

Posted on 2012/07/17 12:06:40 (July 2012).

[Monday 9th July 2012]
Started off the day by trekking over the river from the hotel to a famous coffee place called Stumptown. I'd had their coffee in New York on my last visit there, and everyone in the US seems to rave about it. It was a fairly decent macchiato I suppose. Portland is apparently a kind of mecca for hipsters, and this being one of the most iconic Portland venues I had hoped we might spot some here. There were none apparent - either they've toned down their ridiculous clothing habits or they don't frequent this place because it's now too well known. Or maybe it was just too early in the morning for them.

Most of the daytime was spent in a conference room discussing the future direction of my project. We had a break for lunch which wasn't particularly successful - I decided to go to Portland's Chinatown, and try a vegetarian Chinese place there. They had a lunchtime buffet on, which was a very sad affair indeed.

In the evening we'd been divided up into groups and assigned restaurants to eat - on the basis we were probably too large a group overall to fit into any one place. Our group went to a place called Noble Rot, where I had some very bland soup and some very bland macaroni cheese.

Everybody else seemed to be really excited about being in Portland for this trip - it's apparently known in the US as a place which is really good for food and drink, but I was really failing to see what all the fuss was about.

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