Are you attending Feast, or wish you were? Well besides the Feast food festival events kicking off today, here are a few Feast Specials I wanted to have you know about. I will try to keep this updated- some are special deals for those who are attending Feast. Others are just specials that are being offered to the public to help celebrate Feast and show off the delicious bounty of Oregon and Portland!
Show your Feast wristband for a deal
Show your Feast wristband and enjoy special offers from these tasty Portland restaurants. Valid 9/18 – 9/21 at all restaurant locations.
- Blue Star Donuts – buy one, get one free (all locations- the one most convenient to most Feasters is the downtown one at 1237 SW Washington Street). Yes, you could go to the famous Voodoo Donut with all the other tourists. But those in the know here locally will tell you that we get our donuts from Blue Star, which starts with a classic brioche recipe and local ingredients. They come in tasty flavors be it classic buttermilk old fashioned or lemon poppy seed or cinnamon vanilla sugar. There is a Valrhona Chocolate Crunch or Bacon Maple or Fried Chicken on a Spicy Honey Donut to get your savory fix. Other unique ones like Blueberry Bourbon Basil or Cointreau Creme Brulee (it has a shot of orange Cointreau liquor!) or Dulce de Leche Hazelnut or Salted Almonds on Chocolate Ganache are pretty tempting too. Don’t judge that I know all these flavors. With this Feast deal you have no excuse to not try 2 flavors!
While here, don’t forget to grab something to wash your donut down such as with Portland favorite Stumptown Coffee Roasters (I like the Hairbender, French Roast, and Cold Pressed coffee) or Steve Smith teas without having to take an extra trip to the shops (unless you want to!) - Boxer Ramen – free dessert with purchase of a ramen bowl, but I would be disappointed in you if when you visited, you also did not order the okonomiyaki as well. Warning, this is a cash only place (1025 SW Stark St.)
- Little Big Burger – free truffle fries with purchase of a burger (all Portland locations, the one closest to downtown is in the Pearl at 122 NW 10th Ave). Their burger menu is pared down to the basics to offer you the best, the truffle fries are crazy addictive, and oh yeah, you can ask them to make you a beer float because even though their food menu is focused, they can’t help but offer 30 beers on the menu.
- Son of a Biscuit – free dessert with purchase of a meal that would of course, naturally be composed of fried chicken and biscuits. (2045 SE Division St.)
Feast Wine Flight
This weekend, don’t miss out on the Feast Flight, celebrating Oregon’s Bounty at the SE Wine Collective. SE Wine Collective will be pouring Division Winemaking Company 2011 Red Collar Chardonnay, Fullerton Wines 2013 Rosé of Pinot Noir, Vincent Wines 2013 Pinot Noir Eola-Amity Hills. Come on by through Monday, September 22 to share in the fun of Oregon’s Feast Portland celebration!
Feast Cupcakes
This weekend, Saint Cupcake is offering a Hazelnut Buttercream exclusively for Feast weekend! They have big and small cupcakes, so maybe also try their flavors of Big Top (vanilla cupcake baked with chocolate chips on top – like a cookie AND a cupcake), Toasted Coconut Cream (vanilla with toffee chips and topped with toasted coconut flakes), Big Elvis (banana cake with chocolate chips and peanut butter fudge) or my favorite the Salty Captain (chocolate cupcake with caramel buttercream) or stick to classics like Red Velvet, Carrot Cake, and yes they have vegan ones too. Other treats include their cookies (like smoked chocolate chip, bittersweet chocolate with sea salt or ginger molasses) or bonbonbunbuns of cinnamon sugar covered light airy brioche bites or savory offerings of Caramelized onion and gruyere pocket pies, Bacon Wrapped Crackers, Ham and cheese brioche buns.
Disclosure: I was granted a Blogger Pass for Feast Portland 2014 for blog post and social media coverage but I am not otherwise being compensated. Even before I was given the Blogger Pass I already had tickets for some Feast events – so it just means I will have more to recap for you now! The listings above are ones I am just gathering in one place for convenience for both you and me!
