gypsy jazz

On Thursday, Karl and I decided to go on a little adventure to a new restaurant in our neighborhood. He had met a new friend on the MAX while going to work with A and the guy said he was in a band that was playing there that night. We had never been to the Chameleon Restaurant & Bar before, so we thought it would be fun to try it out. It was more of a date night restaurant, so the meal was $$$, but the food was good and luckily A was well behaved (although she did try to eat the table a few times).

 The restaurant was hard to classify, at first it looked like a Thai place, but then it morphed into Italian. For example, for appetizers I had a Caprese salad and Karl had bacon wrapped dates, but egg rolls and chicken satay were also an option. Chicken curry and cilantro lime salmon for dinner, with handmade cheesecake for dessert. The food was great, but I'm not entirely sure it was worth the price. Portland is funny like that; you can get a $20 gourmet meal at a dive, whereas expensive date night restaurants offer good but 'vanilla' food by comparison.

But the music was fantastic! (Karl and I are kind of going through a big jazz phase). If we had got a babysitter we would have definitely stayed past 7:30.

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xoxo

K