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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Help Me Find Coffee After 6

I went downtown again yesterday for a networking event sponsored by PDX Mindshare. I was one of the first to arrive at Paddy's Bar & Grill and since this was my first time I felt a bit out of place when people asked me if "this was where that PDX Mindshare thing was meeting?" Note to self: arrive fashionably late next time. I also quickly found that trying to make professional contacts when you have to shout so the person next to you can hear you isn't the best way to make professional contacts. At least I felt very awkward doing that, but that might just be me.

As usual, I wanted to make the most of my trip and get some material for my next review and become more familiar with the lay of the Portland coffee house land. That roughly translates to, "I wanted to drown my sorrows for lacking bar room social grace in a cup of joe." During my desperate search for a cup of hot, steamy caffeine I learned a very tough lesson: most coffee shops in downtown Portland close at 6PM. Oh, sure, Starbucks and Peets are open, but as my friend who recommended Juniper Java said, "I'm not a fan of dishwater and cookie cutter baked goods..."

I wanted caffeine, but I didn't want to take the easy way out, so I walked the streets of downtown Portland for about an hour and a half looking for a coffee house that was 1) open, and 2) locally owned. I sadly found none that met these two simple criteria. The places that I did come across that fit the second criteria failed to meet the first. Every single one of them closed at 6 PM, like all the coffee suddenly turned into pumpkin juice (congratulations if you get the reference). It doesn't seem realistic to me that there wouldn't be a local coffee house open past 6 PM so I'm officially asking for help -

Help me find a local coffee house that is open after 6 PM!

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