{"id":17309,"date":"2020-01-09T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17309"},"modified":"2020-05-06T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:23:00","slug":"pure-sizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/pure-sizzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Sizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 326px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=wg20_flipbook_for_issuu.com&amp;pageNumber=72&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Quiero Caf\u00e9<\/b> cuts through the permafrost.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Winterguide 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Colin W. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17338 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wg20-quierocafe-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"wg20 quierocafe\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wg20-quierocafe-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wg20-quierocafe-200x132.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wg20-quierocafe.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>S<\/span><span class=\"s1\">uddenly we\u2019re in the middle of a Hopper painting, and the dark night isn\u2019t so dark. We\u2019re in Quiero Caf\u00e9, nestled in the nook of the enormous plate-glass windows, looking across desultory Congress Street to <strong>Holt Hall<\/strong>\u2014birthplace to so many boomers, including me, and, it\u2019s rumored, Stephen King.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">But this is no dream\u2014it\u2019s an urban oasis. We\u2019re atop the steep slope where Deering Avenue rises to meet Congress, where so many of us have put our snow tires to the test. Everything, and everybody, is made luminous by reflections in the glass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">We start with Sangrias ($7), with pineapple, green apples, and strawberries and shift to a Dos Equis Lager ($4.50) and a Corona Light ($5). It\u2019s somehow both informal and exotic here. What a great place not to take yourself too seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The most interesting menu is crammed artistically on the blackboards. A dozen or so empanada variations catch our eye. How fun to try them with the rainbow of different hot sauces on every table. After Chips and Guac ($6), we order two Shrimp Empanadas ($9), but they\u2019re running out of shrimp so they substitute the second with two more Chicken Empanadas. We also order a special, the Lomo Saltado ($11), stir-fry sirloin strips jumping with red onions, scallions, red peppers, rice, and savory fries. It starts out alive and then gets really alive. Turns out, our favorite of the condiments is the Black Label Reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">We finish with hot chocolate and a coconut macaroon. We go flying into the street on a sugar high. I want spring, and I want it now. Winter is toast, baby!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Quiero Caf\u00e9, 3 Deering Avenue. Monday, 10a.m. to 2p.m., Tuesday\u2013Sunday, 10a.m. to 9p.m. 536-7033.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm up at Quiero Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[712],"class_list":["post-17309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-quiero-cafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18635,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions\/18635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}