{"id":6968,"date":"2012-02-19T02:24:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T10:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6968"},"modified":"2012-02-19T02:24:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T10:24:37","slug":"portland-meriweathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6968","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR – Meriwether’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 1805, explorers Meriwether Lewis and Daniel Clark were deep in the midst of the first transcontinental exploration to the West Coast of the United States; in 1905, to celebrate the centennial of that expedition<\/a>, Portland hosted a “world’s fair”, the Lewis and Clark Exposition<\/a>. \u00a0At that time in history, “World’s Fairs” were held annually in cities around the world, as showcases of the local resources and potential opportunities for both companies and individuals.<\/p>\n

The building which housed the entrance area to that exposition now houses Meriweather’s – an apt location for a restaurant that concentrates on featuring food prepared using local resources – in fact, Meriwether’s has their own nearby farm and serves in excess of 8 tons of locally grown produce annually.<\/p>\n

Open for lunch<\/a> \u00a0Mon-Fri, dinner <\/a>seven days, and weekend brunch, the chef has come up with an interesting menu with new twists on old favorites, and created a number of his own daring entrees; the restaurant offers full meals, small plates, and a great variety of ‘samplers’ \u00a0one can order in multiples from their happy hour menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We had received a gift card from some dear friends, and had it in our mind to spend a leisurely weekend afternoon happy hour at the restaurant.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Burgerdogboy had been once before for a business engagement, but it was my first visit. \u00a0She started happy hour with an adult beverage, Meriweather’s French Pair, featuring Grey Goose pepper vodka, sweet liqueur, and prosecco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On our small plate “board”, we went with five choices for $16: anchovy and avocado toast, chickpea fries, artisan salami, cheese & honeycomb, and raw oysters; \u00a0I added the bacon and cheeseburger as an afterthought, but it was served to us first.<\/p>\n

The high quality ground beef was served medium rare at my specification, thick-sliced bacon, a mild cheese, and marsala<\/a> mayo adorning possibly one of the finest hamburger buns the planet has ever witnessed. \u00a0The beef was lightly-seasoned and the seasoning did not overpower the ‘beefy’ taste of the thick patty.<\/p>\n

While the sampler plate servings were small, all were pleasing, with Mrs. BDB especially enjoying the anchovy and avocado toast, small whole anchovies adorning a spread of very creamy avocado adorning slivers of toasted bread. I enjoyed the small square of honeycomb adorning a piece of cheese, and knew well enough that if I reached for one of the oysters, I might lose a finger to Mrs. BDB’s protective eye.<\/p>\n

We arrived at 3pm and the bar (the only venue the happy hour menu is served) attendance was fairly light; by 5p, that had changed considerably.<\/p>\n

Service was perfunctory, but the food is the real attraction. \u00a0I’m sure Meriwether’s will be added to our new favorites list.<\/p>\n

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In 1805, explorers Meriwether Lewis and Daniel Clark were deep in the midst of the first transcontinental exploration to the West Coast of the United States; in 1905, to celebrate the centennial of that expedition, Portland hosted a “world’s fair”, the Lewis and Clark Exposition. \u00a0At that time in history, “World’s Fairs” were held annually… Continue reading Portland, OR – Meriwether’s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,35],"tags":[2746,2817,2834],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}