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Off the Record: Portland Real Estate Insider
Top 6 Hotels in Downtown Portland (and Where to Eat Nearby!)
What’s the best hotel in Portland — and what can’t-miss food spots are just around the corner? Whether you're relocating, planning a staycation, or booking for friends, this episode is your go-to guide to Portland’s most iconic (and cozy) downtown hotels.
Joe and Makayla are serving up insider tips, must-try restaurants, and real stories from their own Portland hotel experiences. From rooftop cocktails to historic charm, they break down what makes each spot special — and where to grab your next great meal while you're there.
👉 Don’t forget to check out the blog that inspired this episode:
Top 6 Hotels in Downtown Portland With Nearby Restaurants
🔑 Episode Highlights
00:01 – Summer pod series vibes and how fireworks, beach trips, and golf kicked off the month
04:03 – The Nines — rooftop views, luxury vibes, and sushi at Departure
07:35 – The Heathman — historical charm, library lobby, and brunch at Cheryl’s on 12th
09:50 – The Benson — old-world elegance, happy hour at El Gaucho, and pasta at Grassa
11:56 – Dossier Hotel — urban-chic, firepits, kombucha, and killer Vietnamese food
14:17 – Hotel Lucia — intimate and artsy, Cuban cuisine at Imperial, and vegan Vietnamese bites
16:10 – The Ritz-Carlton — Portland’s only Forbes 5-star hotel with stunning views and a $6.5M penthouse
📚 Resources Mentioned
- 🛎 Top 6 Hotels in Downtown Portland Blog
- 📺 LivPortland YouTube – Grub Guide
- 💎 Ritz-Carlton Penthouse Listing (in blog post)
Looking for more off-the-record Portland tips — or trusted real estate advice?
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Joe Reitzug
Welcome to off the record Talking real estate with Joe and Makayla. If you're interested in the Portland, Oregon real estate market and want the unvarnished inside scoop, you've come to the right place. Thanks for giving us a listen.
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Joe Reitzug
Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining the show. Hello, Makayla.
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Makayla Mast
Hi. How are you?
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Joe Reitzug
I'm good. I'm. I want to say tan, but it's more like a solid burn.
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Makayla Mast
Yeah, I feel that. Yeah. This is our summer pod series.
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Joe Reitzug
Summer pod series?
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Makayla Mast
I heard it here.
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Joe Reitzug
It is the summer of the podcast. Yes.
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Joe Reitzug
just had 4th of July
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Joe Reitzug
super successful. You were out at the beach and enjoyed yourself thoroughly. It sounded like.
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Makayla Mast
Yes. It's such a fun spot to be during the fourth. If you haven't gotten to do that. Book it for next year because you have to book a year in advance. But the fireworks are just amazing.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah,
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Joe Reitzug
we have dogs that don't do well with fireworks, so we kind of hunker down
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Joe Reitzug
so we were in town, and, I got to play lots of golf with my sons, which was great.
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Makayla Mast
Fun.
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Joe Reitzug
Except for they're with me every single.
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Makayla Mast
Time. Oh, man.
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Joe Reitzug
I know it happens. It happens. But I'm super excited about
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Joe Reitzug
our podcast today because it brings together two things that I absolutely love. I don't know if you knew this about me, but I am a hotel guy.
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Makayla Mast
Oh, yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
I love hotels.
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Makayla Mast
I can get on board with a good hotel.
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Joe Reitzug
I love a good hotel.
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Joe Reitzug
the restaurants around them. When I book a hotel,
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Joe Reitzug
I do some searching and try to find out what's around that hotel within a block or two that I can go to for, you know, grab some reservations or a cool little pub or this or that or whatever. So we're going to include that today because it's not just about the hotel, it's about what's going on around it.
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Makayla Mast
Definitely.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah. And we get a lot of people who,
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Joe Reitzug
you know, especially with relocation and different things like that where we have people,
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Joe Reitzug
that ask for recommendations on the hotels
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Joe Reitzug
so we thought we go big and just say, you know, here are the top six best hotels in Portland. And we're mostly talking about downtown Portland right now because that's where really the top ones are, and also the top restaurants and the fun restaurants that are around now.
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Joe Reitzug
So that's what we're going to cover today. But before we do that, I think we need to give a plug for the Grub guide, because we just did another episode of that earlier today. And maybe you want to tell us a little bit about.
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Makayla Mast
What we did. The Grub Guide has been so much fun. We're trying to highlight food pods and or specifically food carts that we love in communities that we love, because when we're helping people search for homes, it's so much more than just finding the right home. It's about finding the community that you want to live in and raise your family in and part of that search is finding out what's close by, just like with, you know, when you're hunting for a hotel.
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Makayla Mast
So we did the BGS food cart pod in Beaverton, and we do our usual walk around, and we landed on a Euro one today. Amazing Euro. And that was our first time doing a mediterranean one, which is shocking because that's kind of our go to together. Yeah. And it was fabulous.
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Joe Reitzug
Of course it was fabulous. It was amazing. You know, the the owner was so.
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Makayla Mast
Nice, so kind.
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Joe Reitzug
And they let us come in to the truck and you get great video in the truck watching him make the dishes and everything. It was really cool.
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Makayla Mast
It was cool. Him they own I think he's had seven carts around Portland, which is really impressive. I can imagine that's a hard business. Very taxing the least. So it was really cool. It was fun to get to know him. And amazing food.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah. So look it up. You can visit us on YouTube if you go to the LivPortland page on YouTube.
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Joe Reitzug
You will find our,
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Joe Reitzug
grub guide there. And,
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Joe Reitzug
it's super fun. So. But let's talk hotels.
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Makayla Mast
Oh, my gosh. When I think of Portland hotels, I think of number one on our list.
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Joe Reitzug
Really? Yeah. That's your go to.
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Makayla Mast
Yeah. The nines and.
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Joe Reitzug
Nines. I've stayed at every single one of these hotels except for one. And we'll talk about that in a little bit.
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Joe Reitzug
I do love a great hotel. And the nines, a luxury collection hotel that's at 525 Southwest Morrison Street in downtown Portland is a fantastic spot,
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Joe Reitzug
it's just top notch across the board. It's a great set.
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Joe Reitzug
It's kind of weird because you have to go upstairs to the lobby. The lobby is like on the seventh floor or something like that. And it's an old department store building that they converted into a hotel, and they have done a fabulous job. The beds are fantastic. It is so comfortable.
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Makayla Mast
Yeah, it's definitely that, luxurious, luxurious, luxurious feel with that urban feel as well, which is hard to find, I think. And it's just in such an amazing location in Portland. There's so many restaurants and, shops and bars that are walkable.
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Makayla Mast
Couldn't be more prime location, in my opinion.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, absolutely. So the nines is a glamorous hotel perched atop the historic Meyer and Frank building, offering modern luxury and curated local art, it's sleek, stylish rooms and panoramic rooftop views make it a favorite for upscale travelers. That's what I wrote previously. I thought it was pretty good.
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Makayla Mast
It's really good.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, yeah. But tell me why travelers love it.
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Makayla Mast
Well, as I mentioned, it's, near Pioneer
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Makayla Mast
Courthouse Square. Lot happening right there. You know, at Christmas time, they have the big tree right there, but they have markets and all sorts of concerts and fun things in the summer. It's walkable to waterfront.
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Joe Reitzug
And they do have food trucks down there now, too.
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Makayla Mast
Yes, they do.
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Joe Reitzug
Wonderful.
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Makayla Mast
another reason why people love it is because of the rooftop restaurant departure that is a fan favorite. One of my favorite restaurants. Yeah. At bar, they have 360 views of the city. Yeah, it's just a very upscale feel. You know.
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Joe Reitzug
Some. There is an outdoor, portion of departure where you can sit outside and watch the sunset over the West Hills, which is really cool.
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Makayla Mast
Yeah. It's gorgeous. Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
So the nearby restaurants, what we're going to do is tell you about the hotel, why people love it, and also talk about some of the nearby restaurants.
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Joe Reitzug
Urban Farmer is right in the building. Have you eaten.
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Makayla Mast
There? I haven't oh.
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Joe Reitzug
My gosh, it's good.
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Makayla Mast
I know it is good.
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Joe Reitzug
Farm to table steakhouse
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Joe Reitzug
I love everything about that center.
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Joe Reitzug
That's so good. So that's in the hotel and then departure upstairs that we were just talking about is also a dining room, but it later in the evening, it kind of gets to be a club,
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Joe Reitzug
right?
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Makayla Mast
Bar.
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Makayla Mast
Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, yeah, that's more than, a restaurant there, right?
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Makayla Mast
The sushi there is amazing. And it's a rotating menu.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, it's really good.
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Joe Reitzug
A shout out to Luca Osteria.
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Joe Reitzug
Did I say that right. And Luca Osteria, I think. Yeah. Upscale Italian. Upscale Italian. That's about a block or a block and a half away. That is a fantastic, authentic Italian restaurant. If the osso buco there, it is worth the trip. Okay. Yeah. So that's the nines.
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Joe Reitzug
What's our number two on the list here? And this is in no order. This is just our top six.
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Makayla Mast
Yeah, the human hotel on Southwest Broadway, which is not that far from the nines. Also an amazing location.
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Makayla Mast
It's been around since 1927, so it's very old. Portland has a historical charm.
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Makayla Mast
It's cozy.
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Makayla Mast
And again, walkable. And this hotel is pet friendly, which a lot of people like when they're visiting Portland.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, it's got a very East Coast feel.
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Makayla Mast
Oh, that's a good way of describing it.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, it reminds me a lot of some of the old school hotels in New York. It's very,
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Joe Reitzug
traditional, like the lobby library that's there. If you go into the lobby.
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Joe Reitzug
and kind of go to the left, there's a lobby.
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Joe Reitzug
a library in there. That is just really, really cool. Super comfortable chairs. So if you're waiting for dinner reservations or if you're meeting someone there, or if you grab a cocktail and want to just kind of hang out in a really cool spot.
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Joe Reitzug
The lobby library is is really cool.
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Makayla Mast
It's really cool.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah.
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Makayla Mast
What are some restaurants nearby?
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Joe Reitzug
Have you been to Cheryl's on 12th?
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Makayla Mast
Of course.
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Joe Reitzug
I love Cheryl's all day brunch.
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Makayla Mast
Portland brunch staple.
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Joe Reitzug
It really is.
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Joe Reitzug
They used to have a deal on mimosas. That was.
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Makayla Mast
Oh, yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
That's still going. That's dangerous. Yeah, yeah.
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Makayla Mast
Super dangerous. When you go to brunch at Cheryl's on 12th, that is probably going to be your only event for the day. Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
It's a handful. It's a handful. There's also headwaters. I haven't been to headwaters. I've heard a lot of people say great things about it. It's kind of an upscale seafood place. I do love the seafood, so I'm probably going to have to try that at some point. But,
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Joe Reitzug
the Heisman is just a really cool. It's been top three, top four hotel in Portland, for ever.
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Joe Reitzug
Like since Portland, since this thing was put together.
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Joe Reitzug
Well, it says since 1927, right. Jeez, Louise.
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Makayla Mast
It's impressive.
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Joe Reitzug
It's impressive. So.
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Makayla Mast
Oh the that's also by the Q Restaurant and Bar which is really fun and trendy.
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Joe Reitzug
I haven't seen that.
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Makayla Mast
One to go right. Food also a rotating menu.
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Joe Reitzug
Nice. Very nice. So that's the hitmen.
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Joe Reitzug
Number three
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Joe Reitzug
on
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Joe Reitzug
of our top six here is the Benson. I love me some Benson.
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Makayla Mast
Me, too. This is supposed to be a summer series, but the Benson is one of my favorite places to go at Christmas time.
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Joe Reitzug
It's got that old world charm. You know, with the grand interiors, and it's just. It's really, really cool.
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Joe Reitzug
They do an amazing job with service there, too. They do all of these hotels do. The Heath man does a great job with that. But the Benson is is kind of renowned for
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Joe Reitzug
their high end service that they provide.
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Joe Reitzug
It's just a really, really cool hotel on on Southwest Broadway.
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Joe Reitzug
People love the architecture. They love the lobby.
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Joe Reitzug
It's got a great location with pretty good access to the Pearl district.
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Joe Reitzug
It's just a really cool spot. And the restaurant that is in the hotel, you like to go down?
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Makayla Mast
Oh, yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
El gaucho.
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Makayla Mast
Who doesn't?
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Joe Reitzug
Classics steakhouse. The happy hour at El Gaucho is one of my happy places.
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Makayla Mast
Oh, my goodness, I've never had that be over there. Good to know. In the.
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Joe Reitzug
Bar. It's wonderful.
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Joe Reitzug
There's a couple other cool, restaurants around there. Have you been to Shalom, y'all?
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Makayla Mast
I haven't, and it's good.
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Joe Reitzug
You know, like we had today.
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Makayla Mast
Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
Flavorful.
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Makayla Mast
Mediterranean cute. I love grassa. That's a quick, handmade pasta spot that's a staple in Portland. And then Kells Irish Pub, which is a very lively bar and also a Portland staple. You have to visit Kells if you're in Portland.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, Kells is. It's fantastic.
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Joe Reitzug
Shout out to Grassa though I love pasta. I don't have it very often,
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Joe Reitzug
because I'm old and stuff, but,
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Joe Reitzug
Grassa is if you want an affordable, great handmade pasta dinner, grassa or lunch for that matter is so good. It is so incredibly good.
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Makayla Mast
It is. It's a nice alternative if you don't want to spend a ton of money or have a full dinner experience, it's so gives you everything you need.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Number four, the Dozier Hotel on Southwest Alder.
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Makayla Mast
I don't know that much about this hotel.
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Joe Reitzug
It's a good one.
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Makayla Mast
Okay.
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Joe Reitzug
It's been a while since I've been there, but it is a really cool. It's kind of a trend d boutique type place.
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Makayla Mast
Oh, is that on a corner? Yes. Okay.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
You know, there's kombucha on tap. Artistic interiors. It's just got a really cool vibe. It's got outdoor,
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Joe Reitzug
outdoor firepit things going on. Cool. That type of thing.
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Makayla Mast
Yeah. Sounds like fun. I'd really like to sand.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
we put why travelers love it. It's kind of got that urban chick esthetic chic. Yeah. Is it chic? Okay. Urban. You can. That's esthetic. Let's go. Wow. They say they've got hiking gear, yoga mats and local tastings.
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Joe Reitzug
Two out of three for me.
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Joe Reitzug
I think a young man and young woman's game.
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Makayla Mast
I think that this sounds right up the Portland vibe. Yeah. You know. Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah. And Deschutes Brewery is right around the corner from this. I love the Sheetz brewery. Great food, great beer. And then,
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Joe Reitzug
one of
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Joe Reitzug
Portland's most famous staples, Jake's famous crawfish.
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Joe Reitzug
Wow.
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Joe Reitzug
You've been there, right? Oh, yeah. Okay, good. Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
Rosa, Rosa is in the hotel, which is, Mediterranean. That's super good.
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Makayla Mast
So I thought you were going to talk about look like. Because that's right there. And that is by far my favorite Vietnamese restaurant on the face of this planet.
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Joe Reitzug
Haven't been,
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Makayla Mast
We have to go. Okay. It started as a late night spot when, like, all the clubs would shut down, and it was only open between, like, 11 p.m. and 2 a.m., maybe 3 a.m., and they would serve you like beer until two. But late night bites and but all of their little bites they would give you are amazing.
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Makayla Mast
So they just slowly expanded. I know you're not a curry person, but they have this coconut curry that.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah.
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Makayla Mast
It's a five star rating every time.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
I've heard great things about it.
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Makayla Mast
It's so good. And it's a really cool vibe.
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Joe Reitzug
Let's get the significant others and head down there.
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Makayla Mast
Let's do it. I know this is making me hungry.
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Joe Reitzug
My wife enjoys a good Vietnamese cuisine.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah. Number five,
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Joe Reitzug
have you been.
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Makayla Mast
To.
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Joe Reitzug
Hotel Luchi? On Southwest Broadway?
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Joe Reitzug
You've never been to a hotel?
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Makayla Mast
I don't think so. Celebrated for its rich photography collection.
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Joe Reitzug
Did not know that. But, yeah, I could see it,
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Joe Reitzug
intimate, creative. Perfect for those who want to feel connected to Portland's local scene. Wow. That says a lot right there.
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Joe Reitzug
What I remember of Hotel Lutetia. Is it just being super comfortable?
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Makayla Mast
Okay.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, just.
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Makayla Mast
That's what you want in a hotel? It's really all that great.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah. And the other thing is, it's quiet, which, you know, some of the other like the the Heath man.
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Joe Reitzug
The nines. Not so much because you're, you're up. I mean, I don't think they're lobbies lower than maybe the sixth or seventh floor and all the rooms are above that. So you're, you're up there and you're kind of away from the road noise.
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Joe Reitzug
But,
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Joe Reitzug
Hotel lodge here is weirdly super quiet,
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Makayla Mast
Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
So good.
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Makayla Mast
To know.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
And the restaurants.
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Joe Reitzug
Have you been to the Imperial? I haven't modern woodfired Cuban cuisine.
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Makayla Mast
Have you been there? Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
It is super good. I have not been to mammoth, dude. Is that how you pronounce it? You know, I do the vegan Vietnamese innovation.
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Makayla Mast
Wow.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah. TNC yeah. And then Pine Street Market is casual bites and ice cream and.
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Makayla Mast
Yeah that's a great family friendly place.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah. It's just a super fun place to check out, you know, and do the walkabout and do the adventure. So that's Hotel Lutetia.
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Makayla Mast
And then.
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Joe Reitzug
Last but not least.
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Makayla Mast
Not least by any means.
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Joe Reitzug
You've been to this hotel. I have not I have not stayed there. I have not visited in any way, shape or form, including there in the hotel restaurant. But the Ritz-Carlton.
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Makayla Mast
It is so stunning. You know, I've heard it was such a big deal and that was being built. And of course, we have a, resident side, so you can buy condos there.
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Joe Reitzug
They I saw the other day, I was looking at some high end condos,
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Joe Reitzug
out of curiosity. And they do have a $6.5 million condo at the top of that puppy.
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Makayla Mast
Wow. I think that's been for sale since they built it a couple years ago.
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Joe Reitzug
It was eight and a half. Yes.
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Makayla Mast
Holy moly. Yeah. That's insane.
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Joe Reitzug
It is insane. You got to look it up.
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Makayla Mast
I think I think.
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Joe Reitzug
It's pretty. We're going to put a link to that.
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Makayla Mast
Yes.
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Joe Reitzug
In the show notes. If you go to our blog on LivPortland.com and look up this blog, we have show notes on all these things. We have all the information on all the hotels and everything, but we'll put a link to that,
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Joe Reitzug
penthouse that is in the Ritz Carlton because it is something else.
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Makayla Mast
And if you want to buy it, let us know.
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Joe Reitzug
Happy to represent you on that purchase. Yes, indeed. So why travelers love it. It's the only Forbes rated five star hotel in Portland. Which shocks me.
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Makayla Mast
That's such a bummer when I feel like not true.
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Joe Reitzug
Well, think about it. There are so many amazing hotels and cities around the US. True. I mean, the hotels that we've just talked about are really, really good hotels. But like if you go to LA or New York or Miami or Chicago or Denver, Austin or Dallas or wherever they've got, like the Ritz, the Four Seasons, the, you know, all of it.
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Makayla Mast
Sure, sure. Yeah. I guess that makes sense. That's very impressive. And they have a spa and wellness amenities, amazing service and attention to detail.
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Joe Reitzug
I've heard the views. They're pretty amazing.
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Makayla Mast
The views are amazing. Similar to the nines going up to the rooftop. They're incredible. But they're they're honestly great throughout the whole building. Yeah.
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Makayla Mast
That restaurant on top, I think it's called. What's it called? The Bell pine. Yes.
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Joe Reitzug
Is that the restaurant.
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Makayla Mast
I think.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah. Bell pine.
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Makayla Mast
It's really sleek bar. Amazing food drinks.
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Joe Reitzug
Now, did you eat there or did you just get cocktails?
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Makayla Mast
We had. We've got like a bunch of appetizers. They have an amazing appetizer menu.
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Joe Reitzug
Nice.
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Makayla Mast
Very nice. But it's on our shortlist to go back for an anniversary or something.
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Joe Reitzug
So let's talk about the nearby restaurants. Belle pine obviously in the hotel oven and shaker. Have you ever. Yeah.
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Makayla Mast
Oh, yeah.
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Joe Reitzug
Good stuff. It's,
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Joe Reitzug
gourmet pizzas and really, really good cocktails. And the pizza. I like the thin crust. They do this thin crust that's so crunchy and just
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Joe Reitzug
perfect.
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Makayla Mast
It is perfect. The cocktails are perfect. Their salads are perfect. I don't know if they're a Portland company only.
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Joe Reitzug
That I don't know.
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Joe Reitzug
But we'll take them.
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Makayla Mast
We'll let you know.
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Joe Reitzug
We'll take them.
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Joe Reitzug
And obviously shares on 12th, which we've already talked about. Get them mimosas.
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Joe Reitzug
Lushan, which is an upscale South American restaurant, is, I think, maybe two blocks away from that, that is an amazing restaurant. Fancy, super fancy.
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Joe Reitzug
Call early because you're not going to get in there the day of or probably even the week of.
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Joe Reitzug
It's a hot ticket. So. But that's the Ritz-Carlton fun.
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Makayla Mast
I love talking about all these hotels.
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Joe Reitzug
I love hotels so, so much. Checking in, getting into your room, tossing your bag, flopping on the bed, and having someone else clean up after you.
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Makayla Mast
Yes, yes.
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Joe Reitzug
It's the best.
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Makayla Mast
Of us.
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Joe Reitzug
It's kind of like the situation my kids have.
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Joe Reitzug
Hotel Joe is what they're staying at right now, which is five stars, by the way.
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Makayla Mast
I'm sure it is. They get gourmet breakfast every morning.
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Joe Reitzug
Jimmy had pancakes this morning.
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Makayla Mast
Oh my goodness. Who are you.
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Joe Reitzug
Well I was fixing my lunch okay. I happened to be working at home today until we met. And Jimmy gets up what's for breakfast. And I'm like, dude, it's lunch and you guys can have pancakes. And I was like, yeah.
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Makayla Mast
Okay, sure. You are the best. That is so nice. Chocolate chip. Oh.
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Joe Reitzug
So top six hotels. There you go. There's something for everyone there.
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Makayla Mast
even if you live in Portland have a little weekend stay downtown Jacob and I absolutely love doing that. It's just such a fun way to really spend some time down there.
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Makayla Mast
walk around an area we might not otherwise hang out in. You know, good restaurants, just have a staycation and it's so much fun.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah, we like doing the,
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Joe Reitzug
hopping from restaurant to restaurant and just having a beer cocktail in in each of the restaurants and just kind of getting the vibe off each one. It's kind of cool.
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Makayla Mast
It is always fun.
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Joe Reitzug
Yeah,
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Joe Reitzug
it's a great spot. Whether you're like Makayla said, whether you're visiting or you live here.
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Joe Reitzug
And as a reminder, you can go to our website LivPortland.com
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Joe Reitzug
get the show notes and have all of the notes that we just went through,
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Joe Reitzug
including that clip of the penthouse in the Ritz, which is pretty spectacular.
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Makayla Mast
Yes.
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Joe Reitzug
So that's all for now. Thanks so much, guys.
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Makayla Mast
Bye.
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Joe Reitzug
Thanks for joining us today. If you're interested in finding out more about Joe, myself or the Livportland team, you can go to Livportland.com. Thanks for giving us a lesson and see you next time on the Off the Record podcast.