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Boasting various kinds of live music and entertainment, ranging from rock music to fire dancing, food classics like NY style pizza, and 3 full bars-Dante’s is a great Portland venue for everything from music to dancing to eating to drinking. Read more...
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It’s not so much a bar crawl as it is a bar sprawl: A handful of pubs—the Frodo-sized, 10-seat Little Red Shed is our favorite—strewn about 38 hilly acres of gardens, golf courses and vineyards, most with a seamless view of the Columbia River Gorge. Best of all, after you realize you’ve had a little too much to drive home Read more...
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Look, we dig rubbery hot wings and timid domestic lager as much as the next overworked flunky, but what we’re really searching for in a happy hour is something out of the ordinary: Evidence that the proprietor is going that extra mile to treat us to a truly satisfying après-work moment. At McCormick & Schmick’s Harborside Pilsner Room, the cheeseburger Read more...
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So what if America’s most notorious modern-day pool shark, Danny Basavich, aka “Kid Delicious,” recently declared that hustling is dead? We say slapping down a dollar on a table to claim that 4-by-8 patch of felt real estate as your own still makes for a fine night out. Besides, the action’s white-hot at the Rialto Poolroom Bar & Café, where Read more...
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In a town full of transplants, it’s nice to see a place where a Southerner can feel at home—as long as your idea of home is a trailer park. Here is a white-trash wonderland of deviled eggs and Rainier. Add to that a clientèle awash in tats and Kool smoke, and this neck of the woods just got a little Read more...
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Take a quick jaunt over to XV for a sturdy BLT on a baguette ($5) or a $5 specialty cocktail. Recommended for happy hour abundance. During this 4 to 7 happy hour, sample the jerk chicken sandwich or the spinach mac and cheese from Monday through Friday, and match that with a $1 PBR. Read more...
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Why is the bar in this multileveled, shiplike behemoth full of grinning office drones at 2 p.m. on a Friday? Looks like the three-martini lunch has been replaced by the two-pint afternoon bailout. No wonder America can no longer compete in the worldwide market. But we have to admit, it’s pretty amusing to order a Sea Dog Blue Paw Wild Read more...
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Unless you regularly troll for great places to dump a body, you’ll miss it. But there, tucked in the shadows of NE Columbia Boulevard’s industrial grime, is the best-kept secret on the local karaoke scene. No insufferable crowds. No elitist KJs. No cross-armed deconstruction of your take on “Sister Christian.” Just blue-collar bawlers who’ve outgrown the acoustics of their showers. Read more...
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If Jaws had taken place in Portland instead of on Amity Island, this is the kind of place where doomed Captain Quint would’ve bellied up—cracking clams open with his gnarled hands, swallowing bottles of Genny and soaking up the salty atmosphere that’s stuck in some mid-1970s rock ’n’ reel vortex. The steamers are surprisingly stellar, but it’s the slate of Read more...
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George’s bartender Andy is 5-foot-nothing of hooch-slinging Jedi. And she has to be, because this is the Mos Eisley cantina of Portland: a shady way station for video-poker fiends, MAX renegades, trivia addicts and a sea of future 12-steppers. Black vest buttoned up for business, cigarette jutting like a sniper’s rifle from the side of her mouth, Andy keeps the Read more...