Bar Guide 2014: Lion's Eye

By Martin Cizmar

5919 SE 82nd Ave., 774-1468, facebook.com/lionseyetavern. Noon-2:30 am daily.

The older sister to our bar of the year runner-up, Eagle Eye, this homey pub would be more at home in the industrial inner east side than in the wilds of deep-south Mt. Scott. There's still a bit of the grit from before owner Erin Wagner took over this spacious 82nd Avenue pub after previous tenant Becken's Winning Hand Tavern was busted selling drugs inside the bar. It's still the kind of place where the men's room urinal might be marked out of service with a trash bag and duct tape, but it also has a soup of the day and a serious drink program. MARTIN CIZMAR.

Happy hour: 3-7 pm, daily. $4 premium wells, $3.50 craft pints, $2.50 domestics, $3 food specials.

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Martin Cizmar

Martin Cizmar

Culture editor Martin Cizmar writes about food, beer, jam bands, country music, gangsta rap, bikes, cannabis and the outdoors. He’s originally from a smallish city in the part of Ohio that was once part of Connecticut and has worked as a reporter at dailies in Michigan, Virginia and Arizona and as music editor at the alt-weekly in Phoenix. He’s a passionate advocate for unfettered access to public lands, the repatriation of Oregon wolves, increased urban density and good machaca burritos. He is unwelcome in the cities of Salem and Lake Oswego.

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