The Great Pacific Northwest Rainy Day

The Great Pacific Northwest Rainy Day

There’s a particular kind of Saturday morning in Portland and Vancouver. You hear the rain before you open the blinds. You put the coffee on, check the forecast and see a break around eleven. By the time you’re dressed, it’s moved to one. At some point, you either grab your raincoat or pour another cup.

Either way, you’ve got the makings of a good Saturday.

A Portland afternoon with nowhere else to be

Start at Powell’s City of Books with one book in mind and give yourself permission to wander. You might come home with a novel you’d never heard of or a cookbook you bought for the one soup recipe you can already imagine making. Powell’s Books

If you’d rather spend the afternoon at a movie, see what’s playing at the Hollywood Theatre. There’s something satisfying about going in while it’s still light outside and emerging a couple of hours later to find the sidewalks shining. And if you ordered popcorn for lunch, who’s keeping track? Hollywood Theatre

A Vancouver morning by the river

On a gray morning at Vancouver Waterfront Park, the Columbia turns silvery, and sometimes you can see the next shower coming across the river. Take a short walk and see how far you get before your hood goes up. Vancouver Waterfront Park

When the rain picks up, duck into Kafiex Gastro Café right on the Vancouver Waterfront. Grab a coffee and a house-made pastry, or stay for brunch if you’re in no hurry to get back outside. Kafiex Gastro Café

From the Harlow coffee bar

We’ve been rotating the beans in our downtown Vancouver office. If you’re looking for something new to brew on your next rainy morning, here are the nine coffees we’ve featured so far.

• Woodstock Blend — A medium roast with notes of dark chocolate, black cherry and caramel. Harder Day Coffee Company
• Organic Espresso — A medium-dark roast with sweet dark chocolate, toffee and a velvety body. Portland Coffee Roasters
• Les Fauves — Never Coffee Lab
• House Blend — Cathedral Coffee
• Aequus — Autumn Coffee Roasting
• Endless Summer — A little wishful thinking for a gray Saturday. Portland Coffee Roasters
• Colombian coffee — Great North Coffee
• Kickstep — Great North Coffee
• Signature blend — Coava Coffee Roasters

The case for staying in

Some rainy days are best spent within reach of the kitchen. Put a pot of soup on the stove, pull out a puzzle and see who in the house insists on doing the edges first. Or pick up the book you bought three rainy Saturdays ago and finally read past page twelve.

And if the clouds lift halfway through the afternoon, you can always go for that walk. The soup will be there when you get back.

There’s still room for coffee number ten. Next time you’re in the Harlow office, tell us what you’ve been brewing lately. We’re always up for trying a new Portland or Vancouver roast.

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