From Seattle, we drove to Portland and stayed in our digs at the Embassy Suites downtown. On the way in, we grabbed lunch at Slappy Cakes which was features on one of the cable channels as one of the top 10 restaurants in the US. Not sure if it warrants billing with the French Laundry, but the lines were definitely long, and the novelty of making your own pancakes on special Japanese griddles in the middle of your table was worth the wait (and putting up with the non-PG shapes at the adjacent table). Our gluttony tour continued with a stop at Voodoo Donuts (Nate and I did the honors, see the photo of the hotel above with Julie visible in the window), and with an hour-wait in freezing cold to do New Year's Eve dinner at the Screen Door.
