Portland experience gifts?
December 22, 2015 8:54 PM Subscribe
What are some good <$200 experience or gastronomical gifts from Portland?
The person I'm buying for has lived there for a few years, is pretty in-tune with the restaurant/music/comedy scene (works in the industry, in a way), and maybe a little outdoorsy and a big movie fan. Technological adeptness: B. I could get him movie tickets, or a top-Yelp'ed restaurant gift card, but I thought I'd ask the Pilot-adjacents here if there are some nooks and crannies to check out.
The person I'm buying for has lived there for a few years, is pretty in-tune with the restaurant/music/comedy scene (works in the industry, in a way), and maybe a little outdoorsy and a big movie fan. Technological adeptness: B. I could get him movie tickets, or a top-Yelp'ed restaurant gift card, but I thought I'd ask the Pilot-adjacents here if there are some nooks and crannies to check out.
If you're talking about Portland, OR, then you may want to consider a gift certificate to Ox. Or Laurelhurst Market, either for a meal or a gift certificate for their (luscious, amazing) meat counter.
posted by Specklet at 9:49 PM on December 22, 2015
posted by Specklet at 9:49 PM on December 22, 2015
I've been itching to check out this indoor skydiving place.
posted by sarah_pdx at 10:37 PM on December 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by sarah_pdx at 10:37 PM on December 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
Gift certificate for Reading Frenzy.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 1:11 AM on December 23, 2015
posted by Joseph Gurl at 1:11 AM on December 23, 2015
If a hot air balloon ride sounds cool (I thought it was a super nice experience!) I can recommend a place quite close to Portland. One ticket is ~$150+.
posted by little_dog_laughing at 4:29 AM on December 23, 2015
posted by little_dog_laughing at 4:29 AM on December 23, 2015
There is a gorgeous Chinese garden and tea house there. You have to pay admission to the garden itself, plus buy whatever you want from the tea house, so it's not the kind of thing you might do frequently if you lived there. Gift certificate could be a bit of a twofer -- experience of a Chinese tea ceremony in the garden, plus tea supplies to take home.
posted by cubby at 5:59 AM on December 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by cubby at 5:59 AM on December 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
My Portland-based outdoorsy brother asked for a Northwest Forest Pass for Christmas.
As an experience gift, I've also considered getting him tickets to an adult event at the science and industry museum (e.g., OMSI After Dark: Bourbon & Bacon Fest). If it were me, anything from Powell's would be the best gift, but apparently Indiespensable subscriptions aren't available right now.
posted by teditrix at 7:25 AM on December 23, 2015
As an experience gift, I've also considered getting him tickets to an adult event at the science and industry museum (e.g., OMSI After Dark: Bourbon & Bacon Fest). If it were me, anything from Powell's would be the best gift, but apparently Indiespensable subscriptions aren't available right now.
posted by teditrix at 7:25 AM on December 23, 2015
Response by poster: These were (and are) great suggestions, but as happens in a lot of these threads, I took the easy way out and got him gift certs for Broder and Expatriate. There's a bit of unintentional poetry to these choices, as "broder" means "brother," and he's a Californian expatriate in Washington. Thanks all, I will refer to this thread for at least a few more gift opportunities!
posted by rhizome at 3:52 PM on January 22, 2016
posted by rhizome at 3:52 PM on January 22, 2016
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posted by amelioration at 9:21 PM on December 22, 2015 [4 favorites]