Kalga Kafe<\/strong> Kalga Kafe exterior<\/p><\/div>\n Despite what some reviews I read say about slow or indifferent service, ours was excellent.\u00a0 Our young pierced server was friendly (without being intrusive), knowledgeable about the food, and more than willing to deal with our various food restrictions.\u00a0 Actually, the restaurant is used to those: nearly any dish can be made vegan (most are already) and they’re good with gluten-free.<\/p>\n Kalga Kafe food<\/p><\/div>\n We started with a couple of young coconuts.\u00a0 I buy them to open at home, which is quite an undertaking.\u00a0 Getting the coconut water out is easy (hammer and screwdriver) but getting at the meat is harder, especially if you don’t empty the water first. \u00a0 Kalga’s were very fresh and filled to the brim with water.\u00a0 I remarked to the server that these must have been topped off but she said no.\u00a0 She just whacks off the top and sticks a straw in (use a spoon for the meat).\u00a0 I was impressed.<\/p>\n Our friend had a gluten-free vegetable-based dish (if I have any hopes of being a good restaurant reviewer, I’m going to have to bring home menus or at least take pictures of it; I couldn’t find one online) and Michael had a curry.<\/p>\n Our friend’s son and I both had Pad Thai with tofu, which is one of the restaurant’s most popular dishes, and for good reason.\u00a0 It was fresh and tasty and a large serving.\u00a0 The noodles are rice but there is wheat in the soy sauce.\u00a0 They can make the dish gluten-free but, for some reason, don’t have a gluten-free sauce to use.\u00a0 The dish was already vegan so no worries about egg.<\/p>\n Miriam had some brown rice and tastes of other dishes.<\/p>\n The atmosphere was calming and peaceful.\u00a0 Pleasant decor and no annoying new age touches.\u00a0 The bathrooms were unscented.\u00a0 All one level with easy wheelchair access (can not recall about the bathrooms).<\/p>\n At the end of our day-long trek into Portland, we met up with a friend and her son at Kalga Kafe, a vegetarian restaurant in the southeast part of the city.\u00a0 Dinner hours are 5pm-midnight (it serves lunch weekdays) and it hosts live bands some evenings.\u00a0 Since this was a Saturday night, we thought we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,116,32],"tags":[48,7,6,8,98,77,112,5,12],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-oregon-restaurant","category-restaurant","tag-asian-food","tag-dairy-free","tag-egg-free","tag-gluten-free","tag-oregon","tag-photos-food","tag-photos-places","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n4147 SE Division St
\nPortland, OR 97202
\nPhone: (503) 236-4770<\/span><\/span>
\nHours: Daily 5pm-12am<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Kalga](\"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/kalga_kafe_exterior_2679.jpg\" "\\"kalga_kafe_exterior_2679\\"")
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