The Spare Room Restaurant and Lounge

(Vivian Johnson)
By WW Contributor

4830 NE 42nd Ave, 503-287-5800, spareroomrestaurantandlounge.com.

Whether you're looking for bingo, karaoke, pool, lasers on a dance floor, a fat stack of lottery tickets or reruns of NCIS on one of the bar's TVs, the Spare Room has you covered. Its monthly hip-hop dance party—the Get Down—has become a staple of Portland nightlife. Most of all, the Spare Room's draw is its shabby hospitality: That is, it's the kind of place where, on a lucky night, you might get karaoke vocal backups from the DJ between bites of his burger.

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