Springwater Corridor

Laura Domela — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 14:23:19 +0000

Yesterday afternoon we took our bikes downtown to check out the Springwater Corridor Trail in Portland. I didn't take any photos until we were on our way back and the sun was setting…look at that sky!

This is a great trail and a whole different way to see the city. We rode it out to Powell Butte (nature park) and back, 23.5 miles total. The whole first part is along the Willamette River, and then it turns inland and heads toward Mt. Hood (which we had a nice view of yesterday because the weather was fantastic).

More pretty sky photos:

It was about 8pm when we got back to the car so our plan to cook dinner changed into a plan to go out to dinner and we headed over to one of our favorite spots: Sauvage.

We sat at the bar and had a wine flight and some small plates (deviled quail eggs, radish salad, hamachi carpaccio, and a roasted duck breast (with sunchoke hash, brussels sprouts, blood orange & maple drizzle). All was great, as usual. Then we shared a ridiculous bread pudding for dessert. They changed some stuff from the Pudin du Pan that was on the menu before, and this new one has BACON in it! And a cherry ice cream or something, I don't know, but it was AMAZING.

Food and Wine: Sauvage at Fausse Piste

Laura Domela — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:51:56 +0000

I figured we should occasionally give Portland the same treatment we give other cities we visit (that aren't our home town). I'm going to tell you about a place we stumbled upon last night called Sauvage.

We were on our way to the airport to pick up Kevin's mom. We thought we'd get out there early and grab some quick dinner at one of the restaurants in the shopping center nearby, but traffic was so bad that it took us about a half an hour just to get down our hill to the Burnside Bridge. I suggested we grab dinner locally and wait for traffic to die down so I found a sushi spot we hadn't tried on the East side of the river that had lots of good Yelp ratings. Perfect. We parked (a couple blocks away, in the pouring rain) and got out and headed for the restaurant. We'd taken about 10 steps when we saw a small sandwich board on the sidewalk, an open door, and a menu on the wall for a place called Sauvage. The menu sounded fabulous.

What about this place? Sounds good. Let's try it.

Sauvage is an intimate restaurant over in the SE industrial area that opened right before we left on our 4 month odyssey in July of this year. Fausse Piste is its craft winery sibling. The restaurant seats 33 and is open Tuesdays through Saturdays 4pm-11pm.

We sat at the bar and met and chatted with several of the owners/chefs/winemakers. There are four of them: Jesse, Jeff, Chris, and Nicolas. These guys between them have a ton of cool experience: Culinary Institute of America in NY, Herbfarm Restaurant in Woodinville, Owen Roe Winery in St. Paul, Oregon, 50 Plates, Bluehour, the wine bar Alu…the list goes on. They make wine. They make food. Really good wine and really good food.

They've got bar seating, a couple small tables, and one long family-style table that seats 16.

We had several small plates: a kobe beef tartare hand roll with a quail egg yolk, pheasant dumplings with Oregon truffles and sherry, a black garlic caesar salad with coddled egg and guanciale, and at the last minute we added the wild boar ribs with hazelnut and daikon and wow! Glad we did…those were amazing.

Sauvage also offers a Mystery Dinner: 3 or 5 seasonal courses (of their choice) with wines ($40 or $60). We'll be going back for that.

It's fun to read about somewhere new and hear what people say and decide you need to go try it, but it's sometimes more fun just to stumble onto something amazing that's brand new and only has 3 reviews on Yelp so far.

Sauvage – Riveted

Springwater Corridor

Food and Wine: Sauvage at Fausse Piste