Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Fancy oven's and all that jazz....
We have a brand new fancy oven at Tart and we are now serving yummy cupcakes (this weekend we have ginger pumpkin) and I think I am going to work on a recipe for our four legged friends this week. You know you are a grown up when appliances are exciting…but I am dancing about in circles over the latest addition to the shop. xoxo Ryan.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Our New Daily Specials
Here are our new daily specials; Peace, Love and Sweets!Monday: $6 Quarts (40% off)
Tuesday: Wear a TART T-Shirt and get a FREE Kid's size frozen treat (toppings extra sauces and sprinkles always free)
Wednesday: 2 FREE Toppings to go when you buy a Quart
Thursday: One FREE Topping when you buy a small or larger
Friday: $2 "cheater" Pints or $3 Imperial Pints
Saturday: $1.00 kids cones before 3 p.m.
Sunday: FREE Clover Coffee when you buy a Medium Frozen Custard or Frozen Yogurt
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
My Favorite Neighborhood Yogurt Shops
I first heard about Tart on Twitter. It never hurts to have the Twitterati on your side! Tart is a very family-friendly shop that really caters to the neighborhood. It's downright cozy and cute. Love the kids' handprints! Tart serves two flavors of yogurt and two flavors of custard. Don't even think for a second that the frozen custard is low fat—it's dense, creamy and delicious, but certainly not healthy. The YoCream soft serve yogurt is creamy, with a slight tang—much different than Bleuet. The selection of toppings is adequate, but light on the healthier stuff.
Pros: best $$$ value in town, great location (next door to Bar Avignon—more on that later), friendly service, Cons: limited selection of healthy toppings, smaller selection of yogurt, Bonus: Frozen custard, Clover coffee maker, Stumptown Coffee, books and toys for the kiddos, counter seats
Tart
2128 SE Division St
503.233.4333
Sunday–Thursday, 12-9 p.m.
friday & saturday 12–11 p.m.
Division takes another turn in its evolution
by Erin Hoover Barnett, The Oregonian Thursday August 21, 2008, 12:00 AM
Valeen Chochon, 2, and her mom, Marije Chochon, decide which sample of frozen yogurt or custard is their favorite at Tart, a new shop in a redeveloped building at Southeast 22nd and Division. The cob bench and kiosk are gone. So are the local radicals talking politics at worn picnic tables outside the worker-owned Red and Black Cafe.
Now the building at Southeast 22nd and Division showcases new, more upscale creativity — another sign of the neighborhood's evolution as the close-in city sizzles.
Businesses that have opened so far in the building are a French-inspired bar, owned by the former wine director at Wildwood and his wife, and a gourmet yogurt and custard shop owned by longtime neighborhood residents. Five more spaces await.
"Fundamentally, for our company, we just don't lease to national companies. We like to stay local," says Jeffrey Weitz, president of North Rim Development Group, which rehabbed the building.
North Rim bought the 10,000-square-foot property in 2007 from the family of the original owner. The building dates to 1924, when the family ran a bakery there.
North Rim spent about $500,000 on upgrades, ridding the building of mice and rats, replacing windows and systems from heat to water. Among many sustainable features is a solar-powered water heater and high-efficiency lighting.
North Rim had to replace the sidewalks and tried but was unable to save the cob kiosk and bench, built by former tenant City Repair Project. But the company is pursuing artful bike racks and other street sculpture. The company offered spaces to existing tenants, but all declined. The Red and Black reopened in an old house at 400 S.E. 12th Ave.
Ryan and Stuart Spencer, who have lived a few blocks away for 15 years, opened Tart in June, serving frozen yogurt, rich custard and made-to-order coffee.
They outfitted their space with tall teak tables and stools, and a granite counter lit by art-glass pendants. They invite kids, including their three, to add their hand- or footprints to the pale cream walls with colorful paints.
New businesses
Tart: Gourmet frozen yogurt and custard with toppings, $2 to $4, plus made-to-order coffee. 2128 S.E. Division St. Open noon to 9 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, noon to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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. Bar Avignon: Full bar specializing in wine. Small plates, $3 to $10. 2138 S.E. Division St. Open 4 to 11 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, 4 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturdays. Happy hour, 4 to 6 p.m. weekdays. 503....
"We are trying to make it as family as possible," Ryan Spencer says.
Randy Goodman and Nancy Hunt opened Bar Avignon in the former Red and Black. The couple moved to Southeast from San Francisco in 1994 to help chef Cory Schreiber open Wildwood. Goodman stayed on as wine director. Hunt managed the bar and wine list at Cafe Azul in the Pearl.
"This was a dream we always had to open our own place," Goodman says. "We just took a circuitous route."
The bar offers Scotch, bourbon, locally crafted spirits and microbrews, and specializes in wine. Goodman says they kept food offerings simple — small plates, including meat and cheese, soups, salads and panini.
"We wanted to provide something that is very nice, but where you don't have to spend a lot of money," Goodman says.
Lynn Hanrahan, owner of nearby Mirador, a sustainable-housewares shop, says she's pleased with the redevelopment. She was alarmed when her out-of-state landlord wanted to raise her rent by $1,000 a month in response, but the landlord agreed to hold off.
The Starbucks across the street is closing, and Hanrahan hopes to see an independent coffee shop there or in the North Rim building.
Jim and Jody Ellis, walking by the North Rim building, say they've seen a lot of change over 45 years in inner Southeast. Jim Ellis, 73, enjoyed political meetings at the Red and Black — "good old radical stuff," he says with a twinkle.
But both also appreciate seeing buildings fixed up.
"It's still a really vital human-being neighborhood. It's not gated," says Jody Ellis, 65. "It's still a mix of incomes and there are children and older people here."
-- Erin Hoover Barnett: 503-294-5011; ehbarnett@news.oregonian.com
