Business: July 2005 Archives

Since I'm not getting paid, I'm going to write a shamelessly incomplete, unprofessional review, and without doing my homework to see what other urban honkers may have already said.

So, this place Wax, it's pretty cool. It's on Interstate. It's open till 2 p.m. for breakfast and stuff. I was skeptical at first because it seemed like a bunch of hipsters trying to be "down" and consequently aiding gentrification. Then I started gentrifying North Portland myself and stopped caring about that, then I learned that the place serves milkshakes and has free wifi, but I still just rode my bike past every day without going in. Then one day I was like, "I'm hungry and I need to use the internet!"

Wax has good pancakes. Wax has a big, cool interior with some modern elements and some old, funky elements and some hip hop elements and some warehouse elements, and it reminds me of Oakland. Wax reminds me alot of Yo Mama's Cafe which used to be in Rockridge but not anymore. The really great thing about Wax is there are hardly any people there so it isn't an annoying place to eat. Elisabeth says they have really good milkshakes. I will go there someday and have a milkshake. I really like milkshakes.