Sweetness Bakery
Well, our regular February meeting coincides directly with Valentine's Day. To allow you and yours (and our lovely host at Sweetness Bakery, Kay) to celebrate those we love, we are shifting the meeting date from Monday the 10th to Wednesday, February 16th. Meeting time and location the same. 6:30-8:00 at Sweetness Bakery.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope to see you Wednesday! And, sorry it's two months in a row. Strange year this is.
a note from your neighborhood association
The Foster-Powell Neighborhood Meeting happens tonight at Sweetness Bakery 6:30 pm , friendly FYI
Go to www.fosterpowell.org for more details.
Sweetness Bakery, Speedboat Coffee, and Devil's Point may have a new neighbor in the not so distant future. Or shall I say, neighbors? The parking lot that now sits empty in front of the former All Pets Playhouse is being considered for Portland's latest planned food cart pod. According to an article in the Oregonian, "Carts on Foster" will someday make this vacant lot, as well as the eventually renovated and once-was doggie day care building, a flowered and treed home to food carts, festival space, and (indoor) bar. This will only add to Foster Road's emergence as a food destination, with the likes of An Xuyen Bakery and Foster Burger recently opened nearby, as well as Slingshot, Bar Carlo, and Da Hui further down the road. To read more, check out the article above, as well as more information on the Foster Powell NA website.
t has come to our attention that our regular January meeting coincides directly with Oregon's appearance in the National Championship game. For this reason, we are shifting the meeting date from Monday the 10th to Wednesday, January 12th. Meeting time and location the same. 6:30-8:00 at Sweetness Bakery.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope to see you Wednesday!
Go Oregon!
The Neighborhood Association
Once you get over the fact that something this awesome can exist in a non-descript strip mall at the corner of SE Powell and 52nd, the dilemma you'll face at Sweetness is what to get. Everything they have looks absolutely delicious, and most likely everything is in fact delicious. So you really can't go wrong here (unless you're vegan, which there doesn't seem to be that many options.) This is such a welcome relief since so many coffee shops offer such lousy pastries.
Often the closest places to me are way overcrowded at peak times, or the quiet spots with great treats just aren't worth the trek on a rainy Sunday.
But sometimes it is worth noting the Coffeehouse Couch-Stink factor.
I think it is a combination of second-hand upholstery, lingering hippies and constant espresso machine steam that creates this unmistakable coffeehouse odor.
Prime examples would be Palio Dessert and Espresso House at Ladd's Addition and Common Grounds Coffee House on SE Hawthorne. In fact, SE Portland seems to corner the market on the most Couch-Stink offenses...Fireside Coffee Lodge, Blend, Sweetness Bakery and Cafe...
Not to say that any of these places are unclean or bad choices. Just that maybe this is just another colorful difference between those sterile grab'n go coffee bars, and those living room coffee houses that seem to say "hey stranger, sit over here, relax, I think someone left half a veggie sandwich between the cushions."
