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Until recently, it was impossible to get a beer with your movie in Lake Oswego if you weren't popping a bottle in your Titanic-themed man cave. Thank God, you can now show off your expensive taste for both in public. Lake Theater & Cafe (106 N State St., Lake Oswego, 387-3236, laketheatercafe.com), situated in a tidily renovated Tudor building next to Stickmen Brewery, has a few great things going for it. This is the new best place to be in Lake Oswego. First of all, you no longer have to go to Stickmen for its patio—Lake Theater has a great one, and, like we said, it's right next door. The beer selection, which is only a buck more per pint than you would pay in Portland proper, features things like Pfriem's Belgian strong blonde, Weihenstephaner hefe, and Anthem hopped cider.
But the real cherry on top at this lakeside cinema, of all things, is the food. For just $16, you can get a wild boar pizza for one: thin crust, perfectly browned and greasy with tangy tomato sauce, topped with stringy marinated hog and mozzarella. If for some reason the Lannister pizza isn't your thing, you can choose from an assortment of delicious sandwiches. My favorite, the chickpea and spinach piadina ($11), wasn't trying too hard to be a falafel sandwich, instead using flatbread, ripe tomato and olives like a cute British actor faking an American accent: in an endearing homage to real ethnic cuisine that somehow makes you like them even more. So grab a meal, a ticket to Selma and a $5.25 pint of Weihenstephaner, then throw away the receipt and pretend you're at a cleaner Laurelhurst Theater.
WWeek 2015