Have your thing here
Fourteen seated, twenty-four standing, evenings from five. No hire fee — a minimum spend, told to you plainly on the phone.
The back room, with the doors closed
Behind the counter there is a second room with one long table in it. During the day it is where people sit with laptops and prams. From five in the evening it can be yours, with the doors shut and nobody walking through.
We do not charge to hire it. There is a minimum spend instead, which for most evenings is less than people expect, and we would rather tell you the number on the phone than print a package.
The food is whatever we are good at: the morning baking done again in the afternoon, soup, cheese, bread and fruit. If you want it laid out on the table before people arrive, say so and it will be.
- The whole back room with the doors closed
- The long table laid, or cleared away for standing
- Coffee, tea and soft drinks for the whole evening
- A spread from the same oven as the morning
- Someone from the café here the entire time
- Your own music through the room, or none at all
Tell us what you are thinking of
Nothing is booked until we have spoken. This just starts the conversation, and we will come back with the number and what is possible on your date.
This is a demo. On the real website this form lands straight in the owner's inbox — here it does nothing.
Where
2314 SE Ash Street, Portland, OR 97214
What people say when they are not being asked
I came in for a coffee and ended up having my mother's wake in the back room. They moved the tables, they did not once make it feel like a transaction, and they let us stay an hour longer than we said.
The morning bun is the reason I changed which way I walk to work. If you get there after nine you have missed them, and that is not a marketing trick, they are simply gone.
Two of us worked here all winter on a laptop and never once felt hurried. They tell you when the plates stop, they mean it, and they always find you a plug.
Come and stand in it first.
Most people decide in about a minute. Drop in any afternoon and ask to see the back room.