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By Brock Daniels, PQ Monthly
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In the tradition of old-fashioned cake walks and bake sales, Basic Rights Oregon has turned food fundraising into a true community event.
?This is one of the most fun ? and easy ? fundraisers we have all year,? saidBRO?s Development Director Juan Mart?nez. ?How often do you get to take a stand for equality simply by going out for coffee, brunch, drinks, dinner, or dessert??
The exciting thing is ? it really is that easy!
Bites For Rights started 13 years ago as a fundraiser called Dine Against 9, meant to help sustain the fight against the anti-LGBTQ Ballot Measure 9. After Measure 9 was defeated, Dine Against 9 turned into Bites For Rights to continue the fight for equality. There are currently 79 participating restaurant across the state of Oregon, and it continues to grow every year.
To take part in this annual fundraiser, simply enjoy the amazing culinary creations from your favorite participating local eateries on June 21. Make a full day of it and create your own experience.
Start your morning at Blue Collar Baking Company with an amazing Pumpjack bundt cake made with pumpkin, buttermilk, and candied ginger. You have to get a mini bundtlet too!
Next, head over the river to Old Wives Tale for a remarkable lunch ? and remarkable variety. Their menu offers something for just about every dietary need or desire ? but even their soup and salad bar alone makes for a pretty stellar, healthy, and filling meal.
Your tour through beautiful Portland continues with a yummy afternoon snack at Starky?s, where great appetizers and beverages can help you really get the day going. It?s 5 p.m. somewhere, right? Coconut prawns and a real Cuban mojito complement the gorgeous summer day.
Wrap up your day of delicious fundraising with a world-class five-course tasting menu at Uptown Billiards Club on NW 23rd. Chef Nate creates to-die-for small plates using one special ingredient that each of the 5 dishes contain. The five-course tasting menu is paired with wines to complement each individual dish. This is not just a dinner, it?s a dining experience. Reservations are recommended.
By dining at any of the restaurants listed below on June 21, you are helping ?send a message from our business community that you support equality for all Oregonians and that you stand against discrimination,? says BRO Communications Manager Sasha Buchert.
Create your own adventure! Shoot me an email and tell me about your experience; I?d love to hear about it.
For more information visit www.basicrights.org/events/bites-for-rights.
Participating restaurants
Ashland: Cucina Biazzi, Greenleaf Restaurant, Grilla Bites
Astoria: Astoria Coffeehouse, T Paul?s Supper Club, T Paul?s Urban Cafe
Beaverton: Billy?s Bar, MiNGO
Bend: Strictly Organic Coffee Co. (both locations!)
Corvallis: Block 15 Restaurant & Bakery, Interzone Organic, Old World Deli, Squirrel?s Tavern
Eugene: Cornbread Cafe, Poppi?s Anatolia, Sweet Life Patisserie
Hillsboro: Allan?s Authentic Mexican Restaurant
Manzanita: Left Coast Siesta
Milwaukie: Mike?s Drive-In
Online sales: Greyhound Coffee Roasters, Sage & Sea Farms
Oregon City: Mike?s Drive-In
Portland (mobile locations): Taco Pedaler
Portland (North): Equinox Restaurant, Hungry Heart Cupcakes, La Superior, Lincoln, Mint/820, Posie?s Cafe, Red E Cafe, Scoop, The Florida Room, Trebol
Portland (Northeast): Back to Eden Bakery, Bar Lolo, Cadillac Cafe, Chameleon Restaurant & Bar, Club 21, DOC, Holy Cannoli, Local Lounge, Random Order, Russell Street Bar-B-Que, Salt & Straw, Shandong Restaurant, Skyline Burgers on Broadway, The Secret Society, Yakuza Lounge
Portland (Northwest): Byways Cafe, Cafe Nell, Cupcake Jones, Davis Street Tavern, Eleni?s Philoxenia, Escape from New York Pizza, Fratelli, Hamburger Mary?s, Hobo?s Restaurant & Lounge, Pastini Pastaria NW, Salt & Straw, Skyline Restaurant, Sunny Day Coffee, The Gilt Club, The Whole Bowl, Uptown Billiards Club, Theo?s, Urban Grind Coffeehouse
Portland (Southeast): Adobe Rose Cafe, Bar Avignon, Bipartisan Cafe, Biwa, Delta Caf?, Denicola?s, Detour Cafe, Double Dragon, Eleni?s Estiatorio, f&b cafe and catering, Ford Food & Drink, Flyin? Hawaiian, Gold Dust Meridian, Grendel?s Coffee House, Marsee Baking, Mike?s Drive-In (Sellwood), Mira?s Ladle, Old Wives? Tale, ?Por Que No? (Hawthorne), Scoop, Starky?s, SubRosa, Sunshine Tavern, The Slide Inn, Three Friends Coffeehouse, Viking Soul Food, Whiffies Fried Pies, Wild Abandon & the 2411 Lounge, Zell?s Cafe
Portland (Southwest): Big-Ass Sandwiches, Bijou Cafe, Blue Collar Baking Company, Brunch Box, Built to Grill, Courier Coffee, DC Vegetarian, Mother?s Bistro, Nikki & Lefty?s, Ringside Fish House, Sin Wagon, Skewed Concoctions, The Original Dinerant, Via Tribunali Neapolitan Pizzeria, We Be Weiners
Salem: Broken Bread, Cascade Baking Co., Southside Speakeasy
Brock Daniels, a Pacific Northwest native, has studied wine, culinary arts, gastronomy, and loves researching new food. Brock has written a self-published cookbook titled ?Our Year in the Kitchen.? Reach him at brock@pqmonthly.com.
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