Author Archives: janessapk
VVC MOCKtail Lounge
Wanna feel like a fancy pants but choose not to drink? That’s cool, that’s all healthy and stuff. Mocktails are awesome because they’re more affordable than cocktails, they have less calories and are usually less sugary, and they don’t give you that headachy feeling the morning after a raucous night (unless that Nojito was really […]
VVC Cocktail Lounge Field Trip: San Francisco
What goes better with a trip to San Francisco than a solo dining experience at Millennium? The answer is: nothing. And what goes better with a solo dining experience at Millennium than a fancy twelve dollar cocktail? Again, nothing. Out of the six featured cocktails on the list, I had to try […]
VVC Cocktail Lounge Field Trip
Oh, hello! Happy Friday! I had a hard time motivating to write this post because I finally watched one Leslie Hall video and then COULDN’T STOP. Holy heck. Anyway, the ladies of VVC descended on a swanky cocktail lounge in the Pearl District last night for our weekly meeting. All in the name of research. […]
VVC Cocktail Lounge: How to Make the Best Bloody Mary
This is of the utmost importance. Do you like spicy tomato juice with vodka and vegetables for breakfast? Yeah, me neither. For a long time. Then my tastebuds started coming around, THANK GOD. Now there’s nothing like an ultra-spicy Bloody Mary for those special Monday mornings when I don’t have anything to do […]
Vegan MoFo Cocktail Lounge: Cucumber ReVeeVer
If you attended Vida Vegan Con last August, and you swanked it up at Saturday night’s Galarama, you might have tasted the refreshing and sophisticated Cucumber ReVeeVer. (photo courtesy Lucas DeShazer) VeeV is the name of a fancy-schmancy Acai berry infused liquor. A bottle of it goes for $35 in the liquor store […]
Vida Vegan Con and BridgePort Weekend Vegan Menu
In Portland for the weekend? Or forever? Like beer? Like good vegan food? (Of course you do!) In honor of Vida Vegan Con, both the BridgePort BrewPub and the BridgePort Ale House will be running special vegan dishes all weekend. Oregon is home to the most microbreweries per capita. That means we have a lot […]
