Bar Reviews
The vaguely Germanic Slide Inn (2348 SE Ankeny St., 236-4997, slideinnpdx.com)
is an ambitious restaurant. It’s also an abject failure: Fried polenta
is a flavorless crunch coated in a discordan
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While the world around it bathed in
filthy lucre, now-defunct dive bar Chin Yen was a dimly lit, dirt-cheap
holdout of turpentine drinks and oil-slick Chinese food, home to old men
who fought th
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For what is ostensibly a sports bar, Lil’ Cooperstown (1831 SW River Drive, 719-5394, lilcooperstown.com)
sure has a large and eccentric cocktail list. Along with bottled
Michelob Ultra ($3.50)
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It’s pouring rain early on Saturday evening, and most
vassals operating at the Green Castle food-cart pod have decided to flee
the fields early. But Ian Griffonwyd of Nargila Garden hookah cart
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The Tannery Bar (5425 E Burnside St., 236-3610)
is the location’s former business, Skin & Bones, stripped of fat
and cured in alcohol. The tiny room consists of a one-plank bar, a pair
of
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The cavernous Rookery bar (1331 SW Broadway, 222-7673, ravenandrosepdx.com)—above
Raven & Rose in the ancient Ladd Carriage House—looks like the
thick-raftered parlor of a man whose things
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Are you fit for membership to the White Owl Social Club (1305 SE 8th Ave., 236-9672, facebook.com/WhiteOwlSocialClub)?
According to Club propaganda, a $25 fee and pledging your soul to “Ye
Olde
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Although the bar is dubbed “savage” in French, nothing at Sauvage (537 SE Ash St., No. 102, 971-258-5829, sauvagepdx.com)
falls below perfectly refined—except maybe the taxidermied goose
imp
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The Leaky Roof (1538 SW Jefferson St., 222-3745, theleakyroof.com)
may be across from Lincoln High School, but its patrons are distinctly
longer of tooth and eyebrow. The bar serves its once-blue-
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Add a few animatronic pirates, and Lighthouse Inn (10808 NW Saint Helens Road, 240-8827)
could pass for a Universal Studios theme ride. Each door—even in the
restrooms, cutely marked “Gulls”
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