Common Grounds Coffee House
4321 Se Hawthorne Blvd – Portland
$1
Since I just told you about the unexpectedly delicious oatmeal cookie that I found at Common Grounds recently, I thought I may as well stay on topic and tell you about their chocolate chip.
As I mentioned in the oatmeal post, I was alerted by on of my main chipster tipsters that the chocolate chip cookie here is straight up Toll House, super basic and pleasing. No nuts, nothing fancy – just old school, after-school special style. But so far I’ve bypassed the ccc, honing in on the oatmeal and, on my last visit, was unable to resist taking home a chunk of their homey, unadorned gingerbread – which I did not regret for a split second. It was some top notch G-bread. And if you dig that sort of thing, you need to get some in your mouth, stat. (I drooled a little bit onto my keyboard just thinking about it, if you want to know the truth.)
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