Portage Bay Cafe, U-District
If you want to eat breakfast at Portage Bay Cafe on a weekend, get there early. If you arrive much later than 9:00 am you will be forced to stand in a long yet narrow entryway, crammed shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers for forty minutes while you wait for a table. This holding pattern can become incredibly awkward when people need to enter and exit through the front door or go down the hallway to use the restroom and press you even closer to your already to-close-for-comfort neighbor. The saving grace of it all is the barista working the espresso machine who offers drinks to everyone standing in line.
And of course there’s the delicious breakfast waiting to reward your patient taste buds and quiet your growling stomach. Don’t forget about that delicious breakfast.
Portage Bay Cafe’s menu is filled with organic and whole food items: organic egg batter blintzes filled with mascarpone cheese and fresh peaches simmered in rum and organic vanilla, smoked tomato and saffron sauce drizzled atop spicy black bean-pancetta cakes, omelettes with smoked wild salmon and Spanish manchego sheep’s milk cheese or caramelized organic Washington apples and shallots with pork sausage and Dutch gouda. Journey to the breakfast bar to garnish your pancakes or French toast with your choice of nuts, fruit compotes, freshly whipped cream, brown sugar or warm, organic Vermont maple syrup.
Although I have not yet ventured to Portage Bay Cafe for their weekday lunch, I can hear the ginger and sesame infused Dungeness crab cakes with cucumber yogurt sauce and saffron jasmine rice loudly calling my name.
Portage Bay Cafe
4130 Roosevelt Way NE
(206) 547-8230
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