Bible Club

By Matthew Korfhage

This Sellwood side-road speakeasy is a Prohibition-themed bar so oddly sincere and unhip in its dedication that it utterly flips the script on authenticity. It's a museum of bar craft with bartenders equally serious about housemade tonic and edible flower garnishes, plus a very serious chef—a slightly underutilized Anthony Cafiero, formerly of Ración—turning out amazing French onion soup and lovely potatoes with "melted leeks." Almost every item in the bar is over a century old, from great-grandma crystal glasses to the huge "Bible Club" meeting sign behind the bar to a sewing pinking device used to pretty up orange-peel fronds. And everything is wonderful and wildly expensive, made with ingredients that land on very few shelves, whether a $14 Acts of Contrition pisco drink that comes with floating edible flowers, to a balanced and deep $14 Dip the Bill made with bits of orange zest flamed into Prohibition Edition Cutty Sark, Italian-style bitter liqueur, genepy and curacao.

Entertainment: Reading every single vintage Prohibition protest.

6716 SE 16th Ave.,971-279-2198, bibleclubpdx.com. 5-11 pm Wednesday-Saturday, 4-11 pm Sunday.

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