Irreverent Insider Guide: Portland, Oregon: Eat, drink,

Irreverent Insider Guide: Portland, Oregon: Eat, drink, listen, see, feel... and more

Thinking about visiting Portland, Oregon? You need to read this guidebook first. A cranky, occasionally hilarious, highly-opinionated local author skewers the popular clichÃ©s and reveals some truly under the radar local attractions.

Quotes:

On the city's growing popularity:
"...as a native of this city, Iâ€™m still a little disoriented by the relentlessly hip vibe thatâ€™s begun to permeate even the most mundane of neighborhoods around here. My inner curmudgeon yearns for those days when Portland was regarded (to the extent it merited any regard whatsoever) as merely a smaller, less interesting version of Seattle."

On Portland's famous food carts:
"Thereâ€™s this Platonic food cart ideal that we all share. It involves a gloriously sunny day, a mouthwatering, no-crumbs/spillproof entrÃ©e, flatware that isnâ€™t a spork, and a non-tippy, non-communal table overlooking something picturesque yet urbanâ€¦ chirping birds too, probably, and lots of white teeth. But reality seldom comes close to that happy vision, thatâ€™s what Iâ€™m saying."

On local dive bars:
"To paraphrase â€œFight Clubâ€, the first rule of dive bars is that they donâ€™t talk about being dive bars. Therefore one faces an existential problem when attempting to identify exemplars â€“ by so doing, do I rob them of their very dive-y essence?"

And of course, on the weather:
"Even after a lifetime of living here, at the ass end of two soggy weeks of unrelenting May rain Iâ€™m ready to get the hell out to someplace â€“ any place â€“ thatâ€™s dry."

The Irreverent Insider's Guide. Don't visit Portland without it!
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-02-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-02-08
Format	Kindle eBook

Irreverent Insider Guide: Portland, Oregon: Eat, drink, listen, see, feel... and more

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