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The cozily tasteful Richmond Bar is often an emptying
station for the most cheerily clueless of Division tourists, wobbling in
heels they don't quite understand, while happy hours are home to a
mixed bag of neighborhood types (doctors and lawyers and such, like
Willie Nelson recommends) and middle-aged couples either waiting for
their walk-in meals or giving up and eating from a fine selection of
upscale bar snacks. And yet I will always be drawn inside, because the
tiny cocktail menu contains three of my favorites in all of Portland: a
gin-absinthe Le Reveiller that easily lives up to its name, and an
herbal Sassafras named after the dominant note in the Root spirit mixed
with tequila, mezcal and Cynar—like sarsaparilla with some heat in the
nose—and a tequila-and-shrub Paloma that's sweetly herbal and lovely in
its balance. Treat it like a restaurant whose best dishes are made of
booze.
Happy hour: $1 off everything 4-6 pm daily, and all day Sunday.
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