Schuyler "rabble rabble" C.'s Profile

I've tried it just enough times to know it's just not worth ordering from delivered dish. It's too expensive and the restaurant relection is awful. The website is a pain, and ANY restaurant that delivers on its own will deliver warmer, better food than you will get from these bozos. I hate delivered dish.

I used to live right by this place. Very ok. The late night happy hour was a decent deal, and I had good gnocci there, but for some reason, despite it being one of only 2 restaurants near my apartment that was open past 7pm, I rarely went there. It's really just ok.

The biggest drawback, their house wine (part of the happy hour) was atrocious. I mean awful.

Meh-worthy, but for nice atmosphere and a pretty decent late night happy hour pizza. Show owner comment »

A lot of the appeal of this place was sitting outside. Now that it's cold, I have come to realize how unappealing the interior is. I don't know how they could fix it, but it needs to be fixed. Hopefully they'll come up with something, because I really want to want to start going to this place again.

The biggest problem: even if there is just one loud jerk in the bar, the entire interior of the place is ringing with the noise of douchebaggery. The first thing this place needs to do is NEVER PLAY SPORTS IN SUCH A SMALL BAR!!! It attracts the wrong kind of crowd, and who wants to sip a smooth bourbon cocktail while some PSU students are are yelling at the ref through the T.V. screen?

Outstanding. The best beer bar in Oakland. Unique, classy, comfortable, and surprisingly cheap (for what it is).

This is a Belgian Tavern of the highest order. While I do wish they had more food options, the Trappist is an excellent beer bar. With the requisite correct glassware and a great variety of Belgian beers for grocery-store prices, this is simply the best place to have a beer or two in a city ripe with good places to get hammered. Oakland has plenty of dives and lounges and other such joints, but if you want a drink or two of the finest beer in the world, there's no place better.

Way better than Toronado, if you ask me.

Ok, it's a nice space and a good location. But this place seriously sucks. If the service were good and the prices were better, the low-quality beer would make this a 3-star joint, because of the great location and nice patio. But with such horrendous, inedible food (do NOT eat here), and over-priced house brews, a beer menu filled with oxygenated and strangely expensive beers... why ever go here? Why, because you want a beer and can't find a seat at the Trappist, that's why.

The Trappist is the best beer bar in Oakland and it's a short walk away, but they don't serve food and they're often over-full. That's whyt his place stays in business at all. A damn shame. I hope they get bought out by Rogue so the nice space can be used to serve better beer.

I was pretty excited when this place opened up. I have wanted another decent place within a block of my apartment, and the place that used to be here, Biscuit's Cafe, wasn't very good.

I decided to come and get their signature Pho (a favorite lunch of mine), to go. I ordered Pho Tai Chin, but the man who took my order heard "Pad Thai Shrimp." Since I am the native speaker of English and he is not, I am quite certain that he misheard me. Nevertheless, when I noticed he charged me more than my order - 30 seconds after I made the order - he said, "Pad Thai Shrimp very delicious." He then told me to, "have pad thai shrimp this time and pho tai chin next time."

Sorry, but I don't like Pad Thai when it's fresh. It's certainly no good when it's been driven halfway across town. I didn't want the pad thai. I certainly didn't want it with shrimp! But I got it, and I ate it, and it pretty much sucked.

Why not 1 star? Well, I give a little slack to a brand new restaurant that is understaffed, and I saw the pho being eaten by other people in restaurant and it looked/smelled very good. So Toast & Pho gets a very generous 2 stars. I'll review it again in a month or two to see if it gest any better.

ONLY PEOPLE WHO SPEAK ENGLISH SHOULD TAKE CUSTOMERS' ORDERS!

For a city with as little ethnic diversity as Portland, it seems really odd that a restaurant staffed 75% with native English speakers had an aggressive old Asian man taking orders. And refusing to fix the order? Wow.

I didn't eat here. This review is for "Urban Farmer" as a bar/lounge. If you are pretentious, over 50, wealthy, and a grade A D-bag, this is the place for you. My girlfriend was stared at by 100 creepy old men. The drinks were unusually expensive, and the general appearance of the place was classic 2002 faux-fancy.

A piece of crap.

First things first: this bar is always 25% full of grade A d-bags. The obnoxious ass-clowns of Muu-Muu's like to hang out by the doorway, making cool folks less likely to pop in. Regardless, it's a pretty decent bar with some interesting beers on tap. I like to go on with my old lady from time to time for a beer or a martini - the inside is pretty cool-looking and there's a fair amount of eye candy to boot.

But the unattractive bartender lady is AWFUL! I recommend anyone going to this bar sit down and go for the superior (and foxier) cocktail waitress over the slow and rude barmaid. It still gets four stars just because it's become a definite go-to joint for me.

Awesome. As dumpy dives go in a dive-tastic sliver of Portland, this is a rare gem. Right by Matador, et al; Tony's is never full, incredibly cheap, and provides a pool table, nice vending machine... and friendly service. This bar belongs in a smaller town, really. The music coming from the jukebox is always classic rock and folk rock. It's really a decent, relaxing place to get a $2 beer.

And the $2 beers on tap:

Rainier
Busch
PBR
High Life

They also have Hamm's tallboys. This is a cheap beer Mecca. Couple this type of divey legitimacy with the fine quality service and you have my favorite "late night" bar to go to after Matador gets too full of d-bags or my girlfriend gets too full of rum and cokes. You can sit here, relax, drink $2 beer, rock out to some John Denver, and wait for sleep to come.

Oh, it's cash only, btw. Boo that.

The classy 1970's family restaurant that time forgot!

What a funny place. I instantly admired the generously appointed (in the early 70's) interior and the diner-meets-cocktail bar motif. Judging by the 100% senior citizen clientele (besides yours truly), I expected something awful.

I ordered safe, the chicken breast sandwich with a side salad. My salad was edible and wasn't wilted (a nice surprise). My sandwich came with grilled onions and swiss cheese. It was enormous and surprisingly good. All in all, the food was 3-star quality, but the interior (and the gorgeous view from the unused back "former cocktail bar" area) was enough to bump the review up a star. A real gem of a place, and a restaurant I plan to go back to for breakfast in the near future. If only they served bloody marys...