[TRAVEL] Portland, OR – day 3
Continue from Day 1 and Day 2…
:: Day THREE ::
Last day of the trip, we started with breakfast in tapas style at Navarre – a small restaurant serving up dishes based in italian, french and spanish origin. Their menu reminded me of test answer sheet from high school; only thing is I wanted to mark, “Yes, I want” in everything. Bread with sea salt butter was great / foie gras on cumin toast, yum / crab cake benedict, my mom loved it / brussels sprouts with apples, I wanted more.
After a hearty breakfast, we stopped by my current favorite coffee roaster, Ristretto Roaster, for bags and bags of Cowboy Blend and their always-sold-out donuts. Then we took a leisure walk to shops like Pistils Nursery, The Meadow, Missing Link Toys… To refill our energy, we made a pit stop to Ken’s Artisan Bakery and picked up a box of macarons – pecan w/ butterscotch buttercream, chocolate, chocolate spice & orange ginger.
To continue our Ace Hotel photobooth photos tradition (one of our pics even made it to Ace’s blog!), we spent the rest of the afternoon at the hotel enjoying Stumptown coffee, hot chocolate, pastries from Ken’s and fun in photobooth.
For dinner, Sally took us to Pok Pok Restaurant for some Thai cuisine. Wow, not exaggerating, but that was one of the best Thai food I’ve ever had. Either we were all in such good mood or the kids were dancing along with the music or our server was so friendly… Doesn’t matter, everything was really good! Lemon Vinegar drink was interesting / the salad, the ribs and the chicken wings were flavorful / Pok Pok Affogato (condensed milk ice cream w/ a shot of Vietnamese coffee) sent me to la-la-land.
The next day we had a crazy early morning flight, but we still ended the evening with making arts and eating ice cream.
Thank you, Sally, Joke and the boys for giving us another wonderful weekend! We miss you guys and can’t wait to hang out again soon! xoxo
Navarre
10 Northeast 28th Avenue
Portland, OR 97232
(503) 232-3555
Ristretto Roaster
3808 N Williams Ave
Portland, OR 97227
(503) 288-8667
Pistils Nursery
3811 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR 97227
(503) 288-4889
The Meadow
3731 N Mississippi
Portland, OR 97255
(888) 388-4683
Missing Link Toys
3824 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR 97217
(503) 235-0032
Ken’s Artisan Bakery
338 NW 21st Ave
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 248-2202
Ace Hotel Portland
1022 Southwest Stark Street
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 228-2277
Pok Pok Restaurant
3226 SE Division Street
Portland, OR 97202
(503) 232-1387
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All images were photographed by bonnie tsang
{triple sigh} Amazing + inspiring photographs, B! I’m in love with it all. But the photo of j eating the macaron…kinda killed me! :)
i love love love your photos. i read sally’s blog too and so look forward to your photos of your trips to visit her and her boys. makes me feel v hungry when i look at the gorgeous food :) keep ‘em coming! xx
ive been wanting to go to visit portland for a while now… and these few post have REALLY made me want to go. you have a way of capturing a moment thanks for sharing!
B, you are such an amazing photographer! this is all so gorgeous! you tell a story with all your pictures and i love it – just can’t stop looking at it! x
I lived in seattle for 5 years and would take little trips down to portland every once in a while. Your gorgeous photos make me want to go back SO badly right now!!! (especially since I haven’t been to some of those restaurants, which look amazing!).
Thanks for sharing! :)
Hi Bonnie! Love your posts on Portland! Drew and I are going in a couple of weeks (we’re staying at the Ace!) and these posts are perfect inspiration for where to eat :)
Stopping by to say hello! I’m a recent addict here on your blog. All of your Portland photos are absolutely wonderful. The slices of life that you caught are just gorgeous!
Thank you so much to all of you!! :)
these are really beautiful!
When is your book coming out? Can’t come fast enough.
I <3 all of these images, Bon :) Miss V looks SO happy with her buddies :)
these are amazing! i love how you really captured the feel of portland — it’s like i’m traveling through your photos :)
What a beautiful blog! I followed the link from Elle Decor’s website because I live in Portland and was curious. You went to places I’ve never been and look forward to checking out-thank you! You missed the absolutely incredible vintage clothing store across from Broders (Xtabay), next time pop in, you’ll be dazzled and have more beautiful photos to post!
Fabulous shots — love the day-in___ series. Best wishes
stunning photos bonnie. the children are so beautiful! how wonderful that miss v gets to spend time with her little ‘cousins’ in the northwest. and i love love pok pok. guess it’s time for me to get back up to portland. xo
stunning photos bonnie…i’m craving portland so badly!
j.
I am constantly inspired by all of your artistic photography! Thanks for always sharing!
hooray for portland – such a great place! your images are beautiful and absolutely bring out the best of portland – i’ve been meaning to try navarre since i moved here – it looks fab – thank you for the reminder.
You’re my idol. I love your photography and your little girl and her friends and SO ADORABLE! Ciao!
Such lovely photos! You are my photography inspiration. I really want to take better pictures whenever I see your pictures (especially of my 2 little boys). Did you learn a lot of your techniques from school or just from experience? Or even a mentor?
This also makes me want to go visit Portland (I live in Vancouver so it is a pretty close drive). I really enjoy your photos and I am also a big fan of Sally’s blog(s).
I bookmarked these posts about Portland for our next drive down (we live in Seattle.) Cannot wait to try Pok Pok and Broder!
Do you (or anyone else here) have any recommendations for shopping? I’d love to find some nice (but not too crazy expensive) local boutiques that sell men & women’s. Thank you in advance!!