Oregon’s independent streak extends naturally into its restaurants. As with the wonderfully odd places among Florida’s weirdest restaurants, Oregon’s most memorable dining destinations offer much more than food.
A table might begin moving beneath your dessert. Your coffee could arrive engulfed in flames. Dinner might even be served inside an old elementary school or miles into the high desert.
Rimsky-Korsakoffee House in Portland
Rimsky-Korsakoffee House occupies an old Craftsman home in Portland’s Buckman neighborhood that is rumored to be haunted, although the ghosts are not the only things capable of moving furniture.
Certain tables slowly rotate, rise or shake while customers eat desserts and drink coffee. A diner may initially assume someone is pushing the table, only to discover that the movement is part of the restaurant’s mechanical mischief…