A Curious Arrangement in Hillsdale

In Collins View / South Burlingame there are several places that serve lunch and dinner: Moonlight Grill, Tryon Creek Grill, Chez Jose's, and TOKY ROLL. "The Grill" might serve brunch on weekends (?). There is no weekday breakfast for you, or even a Coffee House Donut!

Hillsdale has GiGi's Cafe for breakfast. There is a Starbucks and you can certainly get a light breakfast or lunch at Baker & Spice (and coffee drinks).

You can have lunch or dinner at Pizzicato, Casa Colima & Verde Cocina, City Thai, Tango Crab, Sasquatch & McMenamin's brewpubs, et al. Hillsdale also has a Food Park (pod), for lunch or perhaps early dinner.

Hillsdale's Please Louise (formerly 'Oak & Olive') is a gem. It's an "Italian-influenced restaurant and bar, with a chef-driven focus". Please Louise has a special location, with windows all around, and lots of tables — being used only during their dinner hours...

Enter PDX Coffee Club, a gourmet coffee cart.

PDX Coffee Club in Hillsdale. That's "Doug" Fir in their logo, sipping his cup. photo: J.Miller

The cart, previously in a food hall downtown, recently moved into a sunny corner nook. By day, PDX Coffee Club serves up locally roasted coffees, teas, and savory and sweet treats. At 4pm, Please Louise takes over with its menu of pizza, pasta, salads and small plates.

The interesting thing is the multiplexing of space and time. The morning transition is made by shuffling tables and chairs, and bringing the cart forward to its service position. The caffeine community can spread out in the whole space of tables, with their laptops, to work solo or have meetings, whatever. When the Club closes at 3pm, the cart is simply parked back out of the way and a few tables un-shuffled. This makes double use of valuable community-commercial square feet — a cultural win!

The Coffee Club hopes to expand its prep footprint, and offer genuine breakfast dishes. (But they also openly hope to be selected as a vendor in the future James Beard Public Market downtown - which would be Huge for them. Go Doug!)

Is this a pattern that might be applied in Collins View / South Burlingame? Where?

References

PDX Coffee Club
Tuesday-Sunday, 6:30am-3pm (Mondays coming soon)

Please Louise
Tuesday-Sunday 4-9pm
Happy Hour is 4-5pm Tuesday-Saturday and all day Sunday

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Check out the interesting PDX Coffee House. I took an overly-long article and broke into three separate posts! This story deserved to have its own article. Initially, I used it as a lead-in to the Food Hall article, but now it stands on its own. https://newcollinsview.blog/culture/PDX-Coffee-Club.html