Rimsky-Korsakoffee House

coffee here leans into the kind of thing you actually want on a slow afternoon, and the house coffee is a good place to start if you're new to the spot. rimsky-korsakoffee house sits on se 12th ave in portland's inner southeast, a part of the city that's had a café culture for longer than the third-wave boom made it fashionable. the local following it's built over the years isn't a surprise given that. what you get here is a place that takes the work seriously without making it a whole thing about it. portland has no shortage of options, but this one holds its own on a street worth walking. come for the coffee, stay for whatever's pulling that afternoon.