Bar Reviews In this age of Yelp, it’s hard not to sympathize with The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St., 477-4995, thefixinto.com), whose vintage-trailer logo and menu full of Ritz crackers and Ro-Tel see ...   More

Bar Reviews There are places that serve clam chowder, and then there are places that serve a bowl of chowder so HUGE and intimidating that it’s listed in all caps on the menu. At Pal’s Shanty (4630 NE ...   More

Bar Reviews Housed in a white-painted brick bunker cavernous enough to be a Zamboni garage, the A & L Sports Pub (5933 NE Glisan St., 234-7607) devotes its prime flat-screens not to the NBA or baseball, but to ho ...   More

Bar Reviews Perhaps all of Portland’s drinkers can be lumped into two groups: O’Brien’s (519 NW 21st Ave., 223-5390) people and Wimpy’s (521 NW 21st Ave., 223-5153) people. The two cozy ba ...   More

Bar Reviews Established, as the menu proudly proclaims, in 1964 by the Thomas family, Country Bill’s (4415 SE Woodstock Blvd., 774-4198, countrybills.com) appears to have been left unchanged ever since. It ...   More

Bar Reviews Locals already swoon over Bo Kwon’s Koi Fusion Korean taco truck, but in March the cart debuted a “pop-up restaurant” called Koifusion@1 (1300 NW Lovejoy St., 867-8822) in the space ...   More

Bar Reviews “OMG! THE FOOD HERE IS AWESOME!” screams the massive LED marquee announcing the presence of Farmhouse Restaurant and Lounge (3612 SE 82nd Ave., 777-8126, gregsbackyardgrill.com). That may ...   More

Bar Reviews “Is it ‘COO-pon’ or ‘CUE-pon’? ‘CAR-mel’ or ‘CARE-a-mel’?” asks Larissa, the convivial bartender at Amor Lounge (6219 SE Foster Road, 774-71 ...   More

Bar Reviews Now that Portland’s on the short list of cool American cities, we’re fast becoming a target for chain businesses of a trendier stripe. So while Beauty Bar (111 SW Ash St., 224-0773, beauty ...   More

Bar Reviews Everybody has a weakness. Let’s say yours is shuffleboard. You need to play shuffleboard like other people need to have a nightcap, or masturbate. There are plenty of bars where you can relieve ...   More