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Ash Street Saloon

(503) 226-0430
225 SW Ash St.
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Neighborhood: Old Town/Chinatown

From the Abercrombie-clad youth who crowd Barracuda ((read more),Portland,OR">9 NW 2nd Ave., 228-6900) and the hipsters hiding out at Tube (18 NW 3rd Ave., 241-8823) to the punks at thrash-dive Satyricon (125 NW 6th Ave.), Old Town-Chinatown—a onetime center of immigrant culture—is now more a melting pot of twentysomething white-kid cliques. Stumble down Burnside from the classic arcade game-equipped bar Ground Kontrol (511 NW Couch St., 796-9364) to tasty, funky 24-hour Voodoo Doughnut (22 SW 3rd Ave., 241-4704), and you’ll probably cross paths with stylish queer clubbers on their way to gay nightspot CC Slaughters (219 NW Davis St., 248-9135) or Darcelle XV (208 NW 3rd Ave., 222-5338), a drag-queen cabaret in operation since 1967 that actually serves a fairly even hetero-homo mix—which would be surprising if it weren’t in Portland. But nightlife is only part of this eclectic neighborhood. Thanks to a grant from the Portland Development Commission, local nonprofit juggernaut Mercy Corps (3015 SW 1st Ave., 796-6800) is moving into the Skidmore Fountain Building (28 SW 1st Ave.), right next door to Portland Saturday Market (Southwest 1st Avenue and Burnside Street, 222-6072), a weekend meeting place for curious, hungry tourists, local artists, cart foodies and street kids. Chinatown is also home to the run-down and the sketched-out. Operations like Portland Rescue Mission, Blanchet House and Transition Projects have long made the ’hood a haven for Portland’s homeless. But where are the Chinese, you ask? Despite the gaudy, pagoda-style gateway to Northwest 4th Avenue from West Burnside Street, the only remnants of the Chinese Americans who migrated to Portland when they were expelled from Seattle and Tacoma beginning in 1864 are the two dozen or so Chinese restaurants. Try the roast crispy pork at Good Taste Restaurant (18 NW 4th Ave., 223-3838) and visit the Classical Chinese Garden (239 NW Everett St., 228-8131), a welcome but hidden green space in this otherwise paved-over neighborhood. —John Minervini.

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This club hosts one of the city’s heftiest lineups of local and West Coast rock seven nights a week. HAPPY HOUR, GAMES, VIDEO POKER, PATIO, JUKEBOX, LIVE MUSIC, OPEN MIC.

Events Today


Saturday November 7

Intellectually Sound, Basicshapes, Moodswing, Guerilla Cillin, DJ MOM


Ash Street Saloon 9:15 pm. $5.

Upcoming Events


Sunday November 8

14 Ninjas, Absent Minds, NCM, Secnd Best


Ash Street Saloon 9:30 pm. $5.

Monday November 9

Mortal Engines, Gemini Mars, Sad Music for Happy Humans


Ash Street Saloon 9 pm. FREE.

Tuesday November 10

Dixon Bendejo Trash, The Weak Knees


Ash Street Saloon 9:15 pm. FREE.



Ratings and comments

Piton  writes on Dec 31st, 1969 4:00pm

Thanks. Ok! Beautyful. It's vonderful.

Mooner  writes on Dec 31st, 1969 4:00pm

It's vonderful. It's fine. It's fine.

Piton  writes on Dec 31st, 1969 4:00pm

I really enjoyed your page. Glad to see other. Glad to see other.

Piton  writes on Dec 31st, 1969 4:00pm

Moon Freddie. And my grandpa is a train finatic. Looks interesting.

Hubert  writes on Dec 31st, 1969 4:00pm

Ok! Beautyful. Moon Freddie. Ok! Best regards!

Tormoz  writes on Dec 31st, 1969 4:00pm

Thanks. Is cool and to say hello. Looks interesting.

Markos  writes on Dec 31st, 1969 4:00pm

I really enjoyed your page. Ok! Master! And my grandpa is a train finatic.

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