Lake View Village — Attraction in Lake Oswego

Stopped in for a late lunch on Saturday with some friends and had no trouble finding a table, in spite of the bustling Saturday Market going on outside, which was a nice surprise. In fact, we had the entire restaurant to ourselves for nearly two hours.

The food was very tasty, and our server was lovely. But overall I felt that the menu was extremely limited, even for a pared down lunch service offering. There was very little to choose from, and the options that were presented were quite expensive.

I wasn’t very hungry, yet I still ended up having to pay $17.00 for a “lunch time” chicken parm, which I hardly even touched. Then why order it, you might ask? Because a) there weren’t any good appetizer options for me to have instead (and this is coming from the girl with ZERO food allergies btw, so when I say there weren’t any good options, I literally mean there weren’t ANY good optionS… period), and b) before anyone says to me, “why didn’t you just order a salad instead?”, sorry, but I’m just not “that girl”. To me a salad will always and forever be the cute little dish that comes out after the appetizer and BEFORE my main meal, but never, ever will a salad be my main course. Call me crazy, call me Southern, call me what you will, but my opinion still stands.

Solid 3 out of 5 stars based solely on my one lunchtime dining experience with their extremely limited and very expensive food offerings. I do however think that the chicken parm was extremely tasty, well cooked (moist on the inside, yet crunchy on the outside) and I probably would have enjoyed it a lot more had it been dinner time and I was a little hungrier.

So would I give this place another shot again? Sure… for dinner next time. However I would highly recommend that management strongly reconsider their lunch menu offerings, because if the empty restaurant on an otherwise packed Saturday afternoon outside was any indication, then I am not the only one who...

It's downtown Lake Oswego at its most aspirational: downtown to clown around as a town-about-town. The architectural language is: brick (or pavers) instead of concrete (or asphalt) underfoot (or undertire); walls of flagrantly rough-hewn stone; tasteful electric lighting, with a moment or two of gas-fired flame (ooh la la!); nothing pastel, or 1985 in general; in short, established without being recently established -- though of course it was.

In practice, the visual experience is not too very different from the Harry Potter portion of Universal Studios, minus the whimsy and the winking apology for being so over the top.

That being said, I go there happily every time.

Not unrelatedly, parking...

Came here for happy hour at Holy Taco. You won't find dollar tacos here. No Tapatio hot sauce on the tables here or fresh homemade chips with salsa. Still, pretty good but a far cry from being authentic. Very Americanized Mexican. Bacon avocado and chicken soft tacos were tasty, red salsa was too bitter. The mixed rice is more quinoa than rice and is pretty bland.

The establishment is clean, service is good and sometimes the local ducks will hang out with you if you dine outside. There's a free public parking garage around the corner and another new one that just opened up under the condos across the street. I might be willing to come back and try some other items if I'm ever in the downtown...