No Dishes to Wash

I was blown away.  Quite literally.  The hand dryers at Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) are the loudest, noisiest, strongest and driest hand dryers around.  That’s the first thing you have to try out there.  The second is the hummus!  It rocks!  It’s way smooth, garlicky, and has roasted red bell peppers.  It’s on the appetizers list… called Humus among us.  (That’s just how they spell it.)  Our server ROCKED because he brought us another thing of hummus and bread for a dollar!  That’s the kind of service I’m talkin’ bout.  He was from Iran, his name was Farhad, and he was teasing us because none of us were drinking beer because we really don’t like it.  (Ok, I like it and Andrew likes it, but none of us wanted it that night.)  Turns out, after he was giving us all crap, he likes cider better anyway!  He made us shandy’s (at HUB they call them Radley’s. I think.  It was hard to hear him.)  Half lager and half lemonade.  (JUST IN CASE some of you didn’t know what a shandy was.)   We loved it.  We had a large 18″ pizza, the four of us (me, Caleb, MANdrew and Micah). We got a  D.N.F (never found out what it stood for, sad) but it had bacon, pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, olive, green and red bell pepper. I like their thin crust pizza, they also make a sicilian style, too, but their thin crust is just crisp on the bottom, not crunchy through the whole crust like some.  Hopworks is a little spendy… probably because you are paying for all the organic-ness.  This is the same guy that was the brewmaster at Laurelwood.  Except everything here is organic.  It’s pretty amazing, a whole restaurant and brewery that is completely organic and sustainable.  Very green. Parking for up to 50 bicycles.  Very Portland.  This is why I love living here.  Located at 2944 SE Powell Blvd, open Su-Th 11am-11pm, F-Sa 11am-12pm.  Happy Hour Su-Th 3pm-6pm and 9pm-close.  F-Sa 10pm-close.  Don’t forget the hand dryers!