Skip to main content1927 SW Jefferson St., 228-7010, goosehollowinn.com. 11 am-midnight Saturday-Thursday, 11 am-1 am Friday.
Portland mainstay the Goose Hollow Inn made its bones
on its Reuben since even before its owner, Bud Clark, became mayor of
Portland. It's proclaimed the best Reuben in Portland on a sign over the
bar—the website is less modest, proclaiming dominion over the planet—
although the recipe was lifted wholeheartedly from the pages of Sunset
magazine. Well, it is large and sloppy and brimming with meat, a bastion
of the old guard at a bar that is itself a bastion of the old guard, a
place of old stories and old pictures of patrons both current and sadly
departed, in Portland's least-changed central neighborhood. Bud still
shows up at the bar, and the family still runs it (along with seemingly
almost every business in the neighborhood), and it's a citywide
treasure.
Happy hour: 9 pm-midnight daily. Wine, beer, cocktail specials.
Entertainment: You don't
need a TV in here. Just talk to the guy next to you, who's been in here
every week since 1972. He's entertaining enough.
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