news dear to a violist’s heart… September 11, 2008
Posted by Charles Noble in : food & drink, restaurants, viola, 2comments
Just saw this over at the Exploration of Portland Food and Drink blog, then read the story at WWeek - the South Park Block #5 will have a new restaurant built over part of it - called - VIOLA (!) Wonder if they’ll have special prices for all the violists in town…
Here’s a brief excerpt from the WW article, and Beliakoff is owner of the well-regarded restaurant Roux.
Beliakoff, in a Willamette Week exclusive, says in April of 2009 he will open a cafe, called Viola (named for the stringed instrument, not the plant), in a jewel-box sized space in the upper southwest corner of the new park.
right coast softening? October 26, 2007
Posted by Charles Noble in : food & drink, restaurants, 2commentsWe’ve been out in New York City the past few days (now we’re very briefly upstate) and I’ve been pretty surprised by what a nice city it’s become in the ten years since I really spent any time there. Some of this may be accounted for by the fact that I’m less of a scaredy-cat traveller than I used to be, but I think the psyche of the City has fundamentally changed since then, too. Some of my New York friends think it has to do largely with the shock of 9/11, and that makes sense to me. Whatever the cause, I actually think that New York is a warmer, friendlier place to visit than Portland. (more…)
