{"id":5373,"date":"2011-03-12T06:41:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T14:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=5373"},"modified":"2011-03-12T06:41:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T14:41:51","slug":"portland-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=5373","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR &#8211; The Canvas Art Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5382\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/canvas3-png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5382\" title=\"Canvas Art Bar and Bistro\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/canvas3-png-225x300.png\" alt=\"Canvas Art Bar and Bistro\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canvas Art Bar and Bistro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This may be the funnest place in Portland you&#8217;ve never heard of! Nestled in an industrial neighborhood in NW, almost under I-405, the\u00a0 Canvas Art Bar and Bistro makes for a very special date night with your significant other or your children!<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As they indicate on their <a title=\"Canvas Art Bar and Bistro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecanvaspdx.com\/eat.php\">website<\/a>, you can go there to eat, meet, and make?\u00a0 What do you eat?\u00a0 Delicious small plates, sandwiches, and soups. (And yes, there is a happy hour menu!).\u00a0 What do you make?\u00a0 Anything &#8216;artistic&#8217; you are feel a passion for!\u00a0 Paint, draw, mixed media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Canvas &#8220;make&#8221; menu provides you with an ala carte selection of materials to use for your creation, and you, or you and your date\/friend can pass a very pleasant evening having a little nosh, creating something together, having a local microbrew, and taking in whatever other fun event (like live Mic music on Fridays!) the owners have cooked up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Absolutely over-the-top service and assistance from the two owners, we enjoyed a variety of appetizers, nuts, olives, shrimp skewers, quesadillas.\u00a0 They feature some daily specials, while we didn&#8217;t select it, last night&#8217;s Southwestern Pork Soup sounded fantastic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Burgerdogboy and I were accompanied by our date friends from Vancouver, we used to get together them on occasion to sample local Sunday breakfasts, but we have taken this path now of having &#8216;create dates&#8217;, and The Canvas was a stop worth crowing about.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our friends chose to create some projects with paint, and Mrs. BDB and I went with making a collage that is representative of a lot of our interests.\u00a0 Yes, of course I went with the burgers, dogs, pizza theme!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ll find the Canvas Art Bar at 1800 NW Upshur St., and they open Mon-Fri at 11A, and Saturdays at 4.\u00a0 Closed Sundays.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get there!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Food offerings posted on <a title=\"Canvas Art Bar and Bistro\" href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/menus\/\">our menu page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5383\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/canvas1-png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5383\" title=\"Canvas Art Bar and Bistro\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/canvas1-png.png\" alt=\"Canvas Art Bar and Bistro\" width=\"370\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canvas Art Bar and Bistro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This may be the funnest place in Portland you\u2019ve never heard of! Nestled in an industrial neighborhood in NW, almost under I-405, the Canvas Art Bar and Bistro makes for a very special date night with your significant other or your children!<\/p>\n<p>As they indicate on their website, you can go there to eat, meet, and make? What do you eat? Delicious small plates, sandwiches, and soups. (And yes, there is a happy hour menu!). What do you make? Anything \u2018artistic\u2019 you are feel a passion for! Paint, draw, mixed media.<\/p>\n<p>The Canvas \u201cmake\u201d menu provides you with an ala carte selection of materials to use for your creation, and you, or you and your date\/friend can pass a very pleasant evening having a little nosh, creating something together, having a local microbrew, and taking in whatever other fun event (like live Mic music on Fridays!) the owners have cooked up.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely over-the-top service and assistance from the two owners, we enjoyed a variety of appetizers, nuts, olives, shrimp skewers, quesadillas. They feature some daily specials, while we didn\u2019t select it, last night\u2019s Southwestern Pork Soup sounded fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Burgerdogboy and I were accompanied by our date friends from Vancouver, we used to get together them on occasion to sample local Sunday breakfasts, but we have taken this path now of having \u2018create dates\u2019, and The Canvas was a stop worth crowing about.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends chose to create some projects with paint, and Mrs. BDB and I went with making a collage that is representative of a lot of our interests. Yes, of course I went with the burgers, dogs, pizza theme!<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll find the Canvas Art Bar at 1800 NW Upshur St., and they open Mon-Fri at 11A, and Saturdays at 4. Closed Sundays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/24\/1581819\/restaurant\/Northwest\/Canvas-Art-Bar-and-Bistro-Portland\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Canvas Art Bar and Bistro on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1581819\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 This may be the funnest place in Portland you&#8217;ve never heard of! Nestled in an industrial neighborhood in NW, almost under I-405, the\u00a0 Canvas Art Bar and Bistro makes for a very special date night with your significant other or your children! 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