ECFU

date: june 2, 2009

location: dove vivi pizza, portland, ore.

members present: bflo
honorary guests: mary flowers, gus bowman, katie mcguiness

this past week, i did a west coast excursion with my mom. our second stop was the city of portland, oregon. we had met gus earlier for a pretty decent lunch of vegan corn dogs. after doing some site-seeing, we met up with gus again, this time with his lady-friend katie, for dinner.

the pizza here was a corn meal crust, which is outside my norm, but really quite tasty. i had a slice of quattro fromaggio and a slice of what they called "corn" which actually had roasted red onions, chives and fresh mozzarella in addition to corn. now, i am not usually a toppings guy, and the only time i make exceptions is when consuming "fancy" or "gourmet" type pizza, and not even always then. but i will say i am glad i took the option this time. it was quite good. plus they had bottles of virgil's root beer, and brought water to the table in an over-sized mason jar.

dinner was followed up with a trip to voodoo donuts for dessert. i had a donut with oreo crumbs and peanut butter. it was excellent. in the end, i didn't get to see as much of portland as i'd hoped, having heard stories of it being a magical punk rock place, but i did enjoy my short time there. plus i think i am going back later in the summer for a couple of days.

this was the first of two pizza stops on our trip. to be continued....