Thing is, we think every day is the day to eat Hot Dogs. That’s why we offer not just one, but two Daily Dogs—those half-pound, foot-long architecturally complex and often absurdist creations dreamt up for both lunch and dinner by the boys and girls in the back of the house.

Maybe you’ve bitten into our delicious Chili Cheese Dog (chili, cheese fondue), our Cobb Dog—it’s like a Cobb Salad, but, you know, on a hot dog—or even our French fry-sprinkeld cheese curd-and-brown gravy Poutine Dog.

Whatever you’re in the mood for, chances are it’ll wind up on one of our Daily Dogs soon. Stay tuned to find out which Daily Dog’s on deck by following us on on Twitter, where we each day’s flavor.

That’s why we’ve turned this Vitamin C-fortified fruit into a tasty springtime soda-jerk sodas.

For our Please Dew signature cocktail, we cut all that Vitamin C with vodka—but not just any vodka. We cut it with Beaverton’s Indio Spirits’ Lemongrass-Lime Vodka, which starts smooth and finishes with a gingery bite, just to remind you that you’re an adult.

And in a dash of maraschino liqueur, shake and pour over a pint glass full of ice, and your have a refreshing drink that’s equal parts sweet and sour and that’s so electrically pastel that’s it’s almost a shimmering white.

Pair one with a friend beneath a table umbrella on our sidewalk patio some sunny afternoon.

BLUE PLATE                    Meatloaf & Mashed Potatoes                          10.95

With brown gravy

                                                Beer Recommendation: Alameda Black Bear Stout

BLUE PLATE, TOO            Smoked Turkey Club                                        9.95

With lettuce, tomato, avocado, bacon & mayo on toasted focaccia bread; choice of soup, salad, or fries

                                                Beer Recommendation: 10 Barrel IPA  

CATCH OF THE DAY         Seared Cod                                                   11.95

                                                With fingerling potatoes, green beans, and hollandaise

                                                Beer Recommendation: Laurelwood Motherlode Golden

DOG OF THE DAY            Lil Bow Wow                                                     9.95

                                                ½ lb Highland Oaks all-beef frank with chive cream cheese, roasted red peppers, red onion, and arugula; choice of soup, salad, or fries

                                                Beer Recommendation: Portland Brewing Company IPA

PASTA OF THE DAY          Pappardelle                                                   10.95

                                    With radish, grape tomato, snap pea, and shaved fennel

                                                Beer Recommendation: Double Mountain IRA

SOUP                            Tomato or Cream of Mushroom

SPECIAL SHAKE               Strawberries & Cream                                        5.95

We’ve got your standard hand-shaped half-pounders formed with single-cow ground beef from Scio’s Highland Oak Farm, which we’ll dress up for you with a variety of cheeses and fixins.

We’ve got the gravy-covered Brunch Burger for the breakfast crowd and our statuesque Deluxe Burger for the supper crowd.

We’ve got Draper Valley Chicken Cobb Burgers, Turkey Burgers, Gluten-Free Chickpea and Quinoa Veggie Burgers and Happy Hour Donut Burger Sliders.

What you may not know is that we also have Happy Hour Fried Chicken Donut Burger Sliders.

That means Fried Chicken instead of Beef and Cheese, and rather than dressing our housemade donuts with your standard glaze, we frost these with a sweet, spicy, honey, lemon and chile glaze.

Eight Burgers. Six Cheeses. Seemingly infinite toppings, including fried eggs and extra patties. Celebrating Burger Month is easy. Choosing which burger to celebrate is hard.

host your special dinner on our birds-eye mezzanine

Are you and your fiancée tying the knot in the next couple of months? Have you not yet dialed in a space for your rehearsal dinner?

If you answered, “Yes,” to both questions, then consider our super-mod, ultra-luxe mezzanine space—a great place to gather together your friends, your old family and your new one.

If you check out our online menu options, you’ll see that we offer 3 variations on the 3-course meal. We offer beer, wine and bubbly, as well as full bars with specialty cocktails. We’ll even meet any audio and visual needs your special day requires and deserves.

Not tying the knot? No worries. Whether you need a catered spot for your birthday, holiday and graduation parties, this is the space for you, too. Need a fun spot for a family reunion, casual meet-and-greets or a space that’ll make several flash rounds of speed dating got off without a hitch? Same deal.

Just give our team a call, and we’ll make sure that you next event is a memorable one, whether it happens once in a lifetime or once a year.

1. You needn’t beware the Purple Pie Man because, A.) even with his furrowed brow, his sneer and his unironic rope-like handlebar mustache, he’s not so evil as much as he is innocuously dastardly, and then there’s B.): he’s not real.

2. Our Strawberry Shortcake Signature Cocktail is real, and it tastes just like Strawberry Shortcake (the dessert, not the cartoon character.).

How you might wonder?

Well, muddle a few strawberries, mix ‘em with some vodka and our housemade cream soda, give it a fat straw (so you can suck that up the fruit up like berry-loving anteaters), crown it with a jauntily angled whole berry and (snapping fingers), there you are.

Now close your eyes, take a sip and see if you can’t taste sponge-cake and the whipped cream.

Hint: you can.

And we’re not just talking about taking her to brunch. That’s probably in your cards, already.

No, we mean making sure she has a comfortable seat at the table, and that means making a reservation, and making it early.

Now you could show up with your mother and your brother and your sister, and then stand around for an hour waiting for a table to open.

But you weren’t raised that way.

So here’s what you do: call us up and reserve your mother her Mother’s Day brunch table today. Or tomorrow. Or the day after. But soon.

Seriously, don’t sleep on it. Portland brunches are crazy-busy as it is, but Mother’s Day brunch is going to be insanely crazy-busy.

And while you could reserve your table online, we strongly, strongly encourage you to dial us up, speak with a live human being and reserve your table that way.

You do your part, and we’ll make sure she’s treated right. That’s why we’ve designed a special one-day-only Mother’s Day menu just for her. Dishes include:

• Brioche Sticky Buns with cream cheese frosting
• Goodie Baskets of warm sweet and savory pastries
• Spring Quiche with asparagus, wild ramps, foraged mushrooms and gruyère
• Smoked Salmon Benedict with olive oil-poached fingerling potatoes, dill crumpets and hollandaise
• Warm Rhubarb Bread Pudding with chèvre, arugula and bacon lardons

If you weren’t hip to it already, Saturday is Star Wars Day. Because, you know, it’s May the 4th, as is May the Fourth Be With You.

Because of that, pastry chefs, Jordan Antioch and Sally Bowers have dreamt up 10 Star Wars-themed desserts, including a sugary (yet sadly inedible) Death Star, which can be admired as it spins in our rotating pastry case.

To get a head start, we’ll take to the streets and present a few “May the Fourth Be With You” items to Sixth Avenue passersby during our outdoor late-morning/afternoon bake sale on Friday, May 3. Proceeds from the bake sale will benefit The United Way.

The Original’s menu of “May the Fourth” items are listed below. The puns are, as you can tell, clearly intentional, as well as unapologetic.

Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth Be With You!

• Ewok Claws (bear claws)
• Leia’s Honey Buns (clover-honey brioche sticky buns)
• Chewbaccakes (chocolate cupcakes with shaggy chocolate frosting and a dark chocolate belt)
• Obi-Wan Cannoli (cannoli with a chocolate stripe)
• The Dark Side Brownie (eating one won’t make you evil, but eating two might make you sluggish)
• Crab Tauntauns (crab wontons, but with a gooier cream cheese filling, like those found in Tauntauns)
• “Luke I am your Fava” Phyllo Rolls (Spanikopita-esque roulade filled with a feta and fava bean spread)

And, for the adults in the room:

• Light Saber Shots (hard test tube-shots in a range of appropriate colors)
• Jabba the Shake (a special Mudslide-esque adults-only shake of the day)
• Cantina Punch (expect something hard, red and fruit punchy)

(Because today is Nation Pretzel Day ((yes, it’s a thing))).

A long time ago, the men—and it was only men in those days—used to trick those of us bellied up to their bars into getting blotto.

How? By giving us free food. Pretzels, to be exact. And peanuts, too. Basically, anything that was hard, crunchy and salty enough to trick our mouths into tricking our brains into tricking us into ordering another round. And then another. And another.

And that is how this country was built.

Well, you don’t need to be a logger, a mason of a layer of railroad tracks to enjoy a pretzels at the old OG.

And ours won’t trick you, but if you’re a little hungry, it’ll do the trick.

That’s because they’re soft, not crunchy. And they’re stuffed. With cheese. With cheese curds.

Dip ‘em in our housemade Honey Mustard Dip or our homemade Tomato Bacon Ketchup.

Pair yours with a pint or two.

It’s a Coke.

From Mexico.

In a bottle.

A glass one.

And it tastes like your 10th birthday party.

And because the bottle holds only 12 ounces, and because this Coke’s made with real cane sugar, and not high-fructose corn syrup, you can proudly drink one, even on the streets of New York City.

So drink yours proudly.

With a Cheeseburger and a side of French Fries. Or pair it with some Rum for an Original Cuba Libre.

It’s Coke. From Mexico. In a glass bottle.