Bar Reviews With over 40 brews on tap, it’s easy for the non-beer-snob to get intimidated when ordering at Apex (1216 SE Division St., apexbar.com). But if you look closely at the beer list—presented ...   More

Bar Reviews In this age of Yelp, it’s hard not to sympathize with The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St., 477-4995, thefixinto.com), whose vintage-trailer logo and menu full of Ritz crackers and Ro-Tel see ...   More

Bar Reviews There are places that serve clam chowder, and then there are places that serve a bowl of chowder so HUGE and intimidating that it’s listed in all caps on the menu. At Pal’s Shanty (4630 NE ...   More

Bar Reviews Housed in a white-painted brick bunker cavernous enough to be a Zamboni garage, the A & L Sports Pub (5933 NE Glisan St., 234-7607) devotes its prime flat-screens not to the NBA or baseball, but to ho ...   More

Bar Reviews Perhaps all of Portland’s drinkers can be lumped into two groups: O’Brien’s (519 NW 21st Ave., 223-5390) people and Wimpy’s (521 NW 21st Ave., 223-5153) people. The two cozy ba ...   More

Bar Reviews Established, as the menu proudly proclaims, in 1964 by the Thomas family, Country Bill’s (4415 SE Woodstock Blvd., 774-4198, countrybills.com) appears to have been left unchanged ever since. It ...   More

Bar Reviews Locals already swoon over Bo Kwon’s Koi Fusion Korean taco truck, but in March the cart debuted a “pop-up restaurant” called Koifusion@1 (1300 NW Lovejoy St., 867-8822) in the space ...   More

Bar Reviews “OMG! THE FOOD HERE IS AWESOME!” screams the massive LED marquee announcing the presence of Farmhouse Restaurant and Lounge (3612 SE 82nd Ave., 777-8126, gregsbackyardgrill.com). That may ...   More

Bar Reviews “Is it ‘COO-pon’ or ‘CUE-pon’? ‘CAR-mel’ or ‘CARE-a-mel’?” asks Larissa, the convivial bartender at Amor Lounge (6219 SE Foster Road, 774-71 ...   More

Bar Reviews Now that Portland’s on the short list of cool American cities, we’re fast becoming a target for chain businesses of a trendier stripe. So while Beauty Bar (111 SW Ash St., 224-0773, beauty ...   More