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The Portland Tribune
Thursday, April 11, 2013
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By ANNE MARIE DISTEFANO
The Tribune
Y
ou can tell a lot about
a restaurant from its
bar. And when the
price of dinner for
two is going to be $100 or
more, I think a test drive is in
order.
With this in mind, I recently
stopped by two new and ambi-
tious establishments: Raven &
Rose downtown and Quartet on
the South Waterfront. In both
places the bar is worth a trip of
its own.
I’m really excited about the
cocktails at Raven & Rose.
Chief bartender Dave Shenaut
has taken it upon himself to re-
write the cocktail Bible, start-
ing with the Manhattan and
working on through the lesser-
known sours, crustas and
punches.
As Shenaut notes, the Man-
hattan was the most popular
drink in America in 1883, the
year the building that houses
Raven & Rose was built. It’s an
elaborately trimmed and ga-
bled structure that looks a little
out of place on Broadway, like a
wedding cake at a board meet-
ing. It’s where city father Wil-
liam Sargent Ladd kept his
horses and carriages, and it’s
been restored to exacting his-
toric and green building stan-
dards.
Inside, it feels new. The up-
stairs Rookery Bar is spacious
and handsome, if you can over-
look the TVs. The bar down-
stairs in the dining room is co-
zier, with gas burning lamps
glimmering in the background.
The downstairs cocktail
menu isn’t as extensive as the
one served upstairs, but it’s still
a pretty good world tour of
cocktails that have stood the
test of time: the Singapore
sling, the French 75, Sazerac,
Pisco Sour and margarita.
Then, in the seat of honor, there
are the whiskey drinks, featur-
ing three single-barrel bour-
bons selected by Raven & Rose
tasters.
As bourbon is aged, each bar-
rel develops a little differently.
Normally the distiller blends
the different barrels together to
achieve a consistent product,
but in this case Four Roses, Ea-
gle Rare and Elijah Craig gave
the restaurant team an oppor-
tunity to pull out unique bar-
rels and call them their own.
So my Tilton Sour was made
with a bourbon chosen specifi-
cally to pick up the citrus from
lemon juice, and not overwhelm
the egg whites and bitters. It
was a perfectly balanced and
perfectly textured drink.
The Sim’s Old Fashioned was
even better, with muscovado
sugar bringing out the full fla-
vor of a robust Eagle Rare. The
team is testing rums, tequilas
and brandies, and other famous
cocktail recipes are being ob-
sessed over.
Speaking of flashy buildings,
somebody finally took over the
sparkly polyhedron on the west
bank of the Willamette River
that used to be Lucier. Lucier
closed in 2008 after less than a
year in business, leaving be-
hind the shell of a high-end res-
taurant, designed in such a way
that it really couldn’t be any-
thing else.
Things have changed on the
South Waterfront since then.
People actually live there now,
and Quartet, the new tenant, is
betting that many of them have
the time, money and inclination
to become regulars at a con-
temporary steakhouse that fea-
tures filet mignon and lobster,
wine and jazz, and sweeping
river views.
One warm spring night, I sat
at the bar, watching an acid or-
ange moon rise between the
girders of the Marquam Bridge.
A musical combo was packing
up their instruments, and a
waiter was flaming an order of
Bananas Foster for the last lin-
gering group in the dining
room.
It felt quiet for a Friday, with
the bar less than half full, al-
though there was one large and
boisterous party. Lights reflect-
ing on the river are echoed in
mirrored pillars, low tables un-
derlit in neon red, and rows of
wine bottles — and a glass of
wine might be your best bet.
The house cocktails are crowd-
pleasers, big and sweet. The
Goosebumps combines Grey
Goose infused with lemon, el-
derflower, watermelon and
mint, and part of the proceeds
go to fight breast cancer. The
Quartet ginger sour is Maker’s
Mark with lemon, lime, ginger,
brown sugar and soda, and it
tastes like soda pop.
This is a place that always has
been about atmosphere. It’s a
glittering, opulent spot where
dinner for two could easily run
into the $150 to $200 range — a
late happy hour bill of $15 makes
a very acceptable preview.
Raven & Rose, 3:30 p.m. to
midnight Monday-Friday, 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. to
midnight Saturday-Sunday,
1331 S.W. Broadway, 503-222-
7673, www.ravenandrosepdx.
com
Quartet, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Monday-Thursday, 3 p.m. to
midnight Friday-Saturday, 10
a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday, 1910
S.W. River Drive, 503-222-7300,
quartetpdx.com
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The Quartet bar
(above)
complements a
steak house and
live music setting in
a picturesque spot
along the South
Waterfront on the
Willamette River.
Raven & Rose’s
bartender Dave
Shenaut has
rewritten the
cocktail Bible, with
drinks such as the
Pisco Sour (left).
TRIBUNE PHOTOS:
CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT