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Show Your Team Some Sweet Sweet Love

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Order mini cheesecakes from Rawdacious for pure raw, vegan, gluten free delight.

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching! Spread some serious love around this February 14th with the best local yummies delivered direct. We’ve made it a priority to partner with a variety of vendors, considering all dietary needs and restrictions. So, if you’re planning a sweets party, start here:

Desserts
Rawdacious makes premium “cheesecakes” that are naturally gluten-free, cane-sugar free, and vegan. For gluten free baked goods try Gluten Free Gem, New Cascadia Traditional, or the paleo-friendly Home Grown Bakery. Order French pastries from Pearl Bakery, fresh baked pies from Pacific Pie, luxe handmade cookies from Sterling Catering, or old school pastries or cupcakes from Helen Bernhard Bakery.

Chocolate
Alma Chocolate  handcrafts gorgeous boxes of chocolates and candies made from quality ingredients — an excellent gift. We can also bring you delicious fair trade chocolate bars from Equal Exchange or craft drinking chocolate from Treehouse Chocolate.

Alma Chocolate aims to delight. Order a gift box and we’ll deliver!

Alma Chocolate aims to delight. Order a gift box and we’ll deliver!

Donuts
Our favorite donut shop Delicious Donuts make classic donuts that won’t last long in any office. Donut Byte Labs makes cute lil’ gourmet mini donuts so you can pretend you didn’t just eat eight of them!

Flowers
For gorgeous locally sourced, eco-friendly bouquets, order flowers from Botanica Floral Design 
and we’ll deliver! Pre-order flowers before Feb 5th.

As always, if you need something picked up from one of your favorite spots not listed above, we can do that too.

Or you can simply give us your budget and headcount and we’ll do the rest. Make it easy and fill out our new and improved catering request.


The 2013 Alice Awards

BTA Alice AwardsAre you ready for a party? Then don’t hesitate to buy your tickets for the 2013 Alice Awards & Auction, hosted by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) at Pure Space in the Pearl on May 4th, 2013 at 5pm.

Here are the details from a press release from the BTA:

“The Bicycle Transportation Alliance is excited to announce the winners of the 2013 Alice Awards & Auction, to be held on May 4th. This is the 18th year the BTA will honor select Oregon citizens for their work to make bicycling safe, more convenient, and more accessible.

As part of the BTA’s celebration around reaching the 50,000th student with bicycle safety curriculum, awardees were selected based on their efforts to make the nation, Oregon, and Portland a better place for bicycling.

The winners of the 2013 Alice Awards are:

US Rep. Peter DeFazio – Bud Clark Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

Alison Hill Graves – Alice Award Winner

Kristin Warren – Alice Award Winner

The BTA will also honor Jay Graves for his contributions to the community at the Alice Awards on May 4th. Graves has previously been the recipient of both an Alice Award and a Bud Clark Lifetime Achievement Award. As Graves steps away from his role at Bike Gallery, the BTA is excited to thank him once again for his hard work and dedication to bicycling over the years.”

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The Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030

Portland Bike LaneHave you ever wondered why Portland is such a great cycling city? Well, take a look at the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030 and wonder no more! Adopted in February of 2010, the plan suggests that bicycling will be more attractive than driving by the year 2030 if advances are made in six key areas:

• Attracting new riders.
• Forming a denser bikeway network.
• Increasing bicycle parking.
• Expanding programs to support bicycling.
• Increasing funding for bicycle facilities.
• Strengthening bicycle policies.

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Think Pie! Aussie Style Pie from Pacific Pie Co.

Now when you were thinking about what you were going to eat for lunch today, I bet pie wasn’t one of the things that crossed your mind.  Well it certainly should be!  I’m not talking about cherry or apple pie here.  I’m not talking about your store bought frozen potpies at 1,000 calories apiece.  I’m talking about hearty, all natural, locally grown, sustainable ingredient meat and vegetarian pies originating from a land down under!  I’m talking about succulent beef and onion with homemade sauce; fresh potpie with all natural organic chicken and vegetables; lamb in a red wine sauce with roasted potatoes, carrots, and yams.  For the vegetarians; red lentils with caramelized onions in coconut milk with Indian spices; chickpeas, yams, carrots, and potatoes in a sauce filled with exotic spices; and curried samosa with turmeric, cumin, and fresh cilantro!

So now that I have your taste buds tingling and have spurred daydreams of succulent savory meat and veggie pies, here is the best part!  You don’t have to leave your desk and fly 16 hours just to experience this Australian delight!  Portland Pedal Power will deliver to you authentic Aussie meat pies from Pacific Pie Co. These are pies made in a true Portland fashion and brought to you by an Authentic Australian!

Going to a Timber’s game?  You can now enjoy Pacific Pie Co.’s pies at Jeld-Wen field while watching your favorite soccer team rip it up this year!  Not going to a Timber’s game, but still craving a good pie?  Pacific Pies will soon be sold at Zupans as well!

Pacific Pie Company makes delicious Australian savory pies, pasties and other Aussie treats. They believe that eating great food is one of the true pleasures of life. But beyond serving up old Aussie favorites, they are a values based business that works to promote sustainability, community, and the ethical stewardship of animals and the earth in everything they do.

Every aspect of their business – from the ingredients they select, to their packaging, right down to the material for their t-shirts – is planned to be as sustainable as possible. As avid lovers of the outdoors, and our beautiful planet, their business tries very hard to use environmentally friendly practices.