Hot chocolate before the ballet; poutine after. 4/22/11

The sampler at Cacao's on/near Broadway -- regular, spicy and cinnamon. The latter was my favorite although I enjoyed the spicy one more than I thought I would.

A night at the ballet ["Song & Dance," as put on by the Oregon Ballet company at the Newmark Theatre] was fun. I don't know enough about dance to know if it was great, but I know one guest dancer [Artur Sultanov] has buckets of charisma after I realized I was watching him simply sitting deep upstage sucking wind after a pretty grueling duet while a handful of dancers were whirling around in the foreground. That segment was the best, contemporary and artsy in the best possible way. It came off a bit like an animated early Dali painting before he became a pondering profiteer.

I then lost my foodcart virginity on a medium order of poutine (French fries & chunks of cheese smothered in brown gravy; the Cannucks love it and so should you) at Potato Champion at the pod community on Hawthorne & 12th. S'bon!