Jun 2, 2011 at 4:00 am

Evolving Beyond Meat at Natural Selection

Amanda Smith

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1
Thank you for the tip! Now I know where to be taken on my birthday...
2
thank you. I couldn't really agree with you much more. After eating there on opening night, I was amazed (as was our party which consisted of mostly meat-eaters). Portland finally has a legitimate amazing vegetarian restaurant. When I posed this to my vegan friends, nearly all of them threw Portobello back in my face, and while I feel that Portobello is great, It comes nowhere near the quality of the dishes served to me at Natural Selection.

It's about time we, in a city praised not only for it's incredible quantity and quality of fine dining options, as well as it's amazing vegan/vegetarian friendliness, have the restaurant that combines the two.
3
Natural Selection is indeed awesome.
4
Yes, this place is fantastic – and I would've missed it if not for your publication. MUAH!!
5
THANK YOU!
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Yeh well, vegetarian and vegan ain't the same thing, not in the slightest. Go Portobello! Portland's jewel in the Vegan Restaurant community, and let us not forget Blossoming Lotus (vegan), Prasad (sp?) Vegan and the cart Kitchen Dances (vegan) and Native Bowl (vegan) and Ruby Dragon (vegan). Though Natural Selection is more than likely tasty, to compare a Vegetarian Restaurant to a Vegan restaurant is well, frankly, typical of food critics, though the two are quite different. A restaurant not a Vegan restaurant if you serve meat (nor vegetarian) or dairy. Still, it does look yummy. Dine consciously and compassionately.Go Vegan! Peace.
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VEGAN AND VEGETARIAN ARE DIFFERENT????


Well fuck me.
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Portabello IS high end... mind you, you can't blow $500 in a night there like you can at some of Portland's steak houses, but a few drinks can put you over $100 of well-worth-the-price fine dining pretty quickly. Of course, a little "Selection" is always welcome.

Also, vegies and vegans are not quintessentially cheep : it's consistently less expensive to get bad meat products (fast food, bar food, sandwiches, fish sauce based Thai food) than to get the same level of veg/vegan product, and yet this city supports several mid-level restaurants. Also, many of us have joined the movement because we are averse to large heaps of rotting animal matter that spread disease and cost a lot to maintain - and so I think it's a little unfair to cast the shadow of a small group of dumpster divers onto a large group of reasonably affluent and intelligent people (and yes, it is disgusting to eat trash: it's there for a reason).

Alison: be careful what you wish for on the Mercury comments section.
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I appreciate that they do NOT offer fake meat/dairy products because said products are highly unappealing not to mention of dubious health benefit. I am neither Veg or Vegan (Jesus some of you need to get the fuck over yourselves...a choice is a choice, NOT justification for self praise while demonizing others) but the dishes do look appealing. I do think 35$ is a little high ....not absurd just high. The previous poster has a rather odd observation in that" bad meat products" (not sure what the definition of that is) are less expensive than Vegan/Veg. Really? You're comparing fast food to a mid level restaurant? Tell me you did'nt just to that. I'd hesitate to call much of what is offered in fast food chains "meat" period. A lot of it fyi is vegetable/soy protein which btw if consumed in excess (soy that is) can lower testosterone increase Estrogen and increase the risk of Gynomastia(bitch tits ,pardon the expression). Just saying.

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