"Good Place for Chilling-Out"   My Rating
296 Chia	Posted on: Saturday, September 26, 2009
	Review: I was here in September 09 and am pleased to share my review of Backspace Cafe on HappyCow.net. It was my first trip to Portland. I had mapped out a string of restaurants I'd want to visit while here, and this was one of them. The space is quite big, and the atmosphere is relaxed. The patrons are mostly young people using computers. Not really a restaurant, but more of a coffee lounge and computer and gaming zone. There is a glass case display of baked goods including vegan ones. The food menu offers a good amount of choices. My husband and I got a lentil soup, a mac n cheese, and the meatballs and sketti. Everything vegan. The lentil soup flavor was good but the lentils were a bit hard. The mac n cheese was UNLIKE mac n cheese but rather a spirals pasta with a watery yellow sauce that's suppose to be the cheese. As a pasta it was alright but not passable as mac n cheese. The meatball and sketti was okay. The noodle was al dente (firmer than my preferrence), and the sauce was on the salty side. The presentation of the food, however, was appealing. We also had a strawberry cupcake, and that was yummy. The cafe gets it from a local baker. Backspace serves Portland's famous Stumptown Coffee brand.   Pros: friendly service * relaxing space * Cons: food could be better * *
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"Vegan Hipster paradise!"   My Rating
1 iamkemet	Posted on: Sunday, August 09, 2009
	Review: My teen son and I stopped in on this cool spot and were VERY pleased. This spot has good food, but the vibe is cooler. This is a photo of the vegan nacho's, and we also had some vegan chocoalte cip cookies and my son the vegan club sandwich. Have a little time when you go, you will enjoy the setting.   Pros: * * Cons: * *
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"Backspace Cafe"   My Rating
38 juliotnune s	Posted on: Friday, July 24, 2009
	Review: Service was not the best at Backspace. When I ordered my food they didn't tell me it was ready. Other than that the sandwhich was okay. I only went there because Veganopolis was closed down.   Pros: Internet Cafe * * Cons: Fairly well service * *
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"I really wanted to try it..."   My Rating
9 syork2	Posted on: Monday, June 29, 2009
	Review: I was so excited to try Backspace! The space was really cool (and HUGE!) but I was disappointed when my boyfriend and I had to wait for an hour until they started to serve food (they don't serve food until 4pm - we got there at 3pm). Just because we wanted to try it so badly, we waited around and, when 4pm rolled around, we asked for a menu and the woman informed us that it's a limited menu because they are updating their kitchen (or something like that). I had looked at their menu online and many things looked SO good, but none of their smaller menu had any of those things. We left to find another place to eat. I still really want to try this place when they get their kitchen back, so I'll come back and revise!   Pros: Good space * Good-looking menu * Cons: Staff a bit unhelpful * Need to post food-service times * Need to post their menu changes
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"Lousy food and service"   My Rating
1 vegguy	Posted on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
	Review: I ate here the other day with some friends, the food was terrible, lacked flavor and substance! Our server was very surly and didn't seem to care about his customers. Coffee was fair, atmosphere is lacking. This place should cater to people who do not have any taste. Will never go back   Pros: * * Cons: * *
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"Wow surprised there are not more reviews!"   My Rating
304 gr8vegan	Posted on: Monday, September 01, 2008
	Review: This is a really cool place near the Tube. We had the Tofury Cranberry Cucumber Sandwich and the Grilled Sandwich and both were REALLY GOOD. There was a band setting up to play there, punk rock it seemed. Its a neat place, cement floors, outdoor seating, looked like free wifi. There were a lot of people on laptops, I think they even repaired computers in the back. Top notch food, though!   Pros: Sandwiches * * Cons: * *
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"Awesome food! The best vegan caesar salad ever!"   My Rating
22 rccourtney	Posted on: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
	Review: I loved this place. The food is simple, flavorful and the prices are reasonable. Their caesar salad was the best I had ever had, garlicky croutons, rich dressing-yum! I did however, go to get another caesar salad before I left town and they were out of romaine lettuce which I found quite odd for a restaurant that seems to have a large proportion of sandwiches and salads. I had the gobbler sandwich which was tofurky slices, cranberry sauce and vegan cream cheese with lettuce and bread. I would go here all the time if they were located in my home town. The only downside was the dirty bathrooms.   Pros: Yummy food * reasonable prices * good location Cons: dirty bathrooms * *
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