Bar Guide 2014: Tiga

By Matthew Korfhage

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St., 288-5534, tigabar.com. 5 pm-late Monday-Saturday.

Just across the parking lot from Sam Adams' favorite cafe, Tiga is an oddly makeshift indie-crowd social hour: Rather than horseshoe the bar around the drinks, the box of a building is itself horseshoed around the restrooms and back room, leaving a tight squeeze for the DJ spinning Takamba dance music from Mali or the farther-afield fantasies of Giorgio Moroder's children. The parking-lot patio spills over even in the winter with bartenders from other bars or impeccably pedigreed musicians, busy ruining their voices with cigarettes while sipping from improvised rosemary-gin cocktails. It is a paved garden affair, a house party in a box of a building where no one lives. And yet it's perfect. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

Happy Hour: 5-8 pm Monday-Saturday. $1 off drafts, wells and house cocktails; cheap food.
Entertainment: DJs.

WWeek 2015

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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