Sweet Masterpiece
922 NW Davis street Portland , OR 97205Phone: (503) 221.0055
Located in: Pearl District - Visit Website
BarFly's Review of Sweet Masterpiece
Oversweet liquor cocktails have always been a fool’s game, from girl-drink-drunks (Hemingway, by the way, was one of these) to hangover-prone, amnesiac sorority refugees high on Lemon Drops and German Chocolate Cakes or, God help them, apple-infused Cosmos.
But nonetheless, while we hate to endorse anyplace with all the décor and clientele of your local Starbuck’s, and all the cultural subtlety of a Sex and the City sequel—and make no mistake, Sweet Masterpiece is no better than either of these—we’re stuck reluctantly admitting that housemade dark chocolate puts what the foodies call a “sumptuous middle” into a glass of thick-tannined red wine or musky port. It’s better to its purpose than cheese, better than French-spiced flatiron steak. It's good.
And while there are plenty of wine bars that serve chocolate in Portland, this is the only dedicated chocolatier we know that serves wine. It’s overpriced and culturally repugnant, and if you’re not from the West Hills or the new SW Waterfront condos you likely won’t like your neighbors at the next tables, you won’t like the decorator, and you probably won’t like your servers, but hell: cacao is only one vowel from coca for a reason.
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