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

Bar Reviews From the street, the Bucket Brigade Saloon (8012 SE Powell Blvd., 774-8953)—flanked by brightly colored fast-food joints—looks like a nunnery or Turkish prison. But inside it feels more li ...   More

Bar Reviews At most bars, I’m happy stuffing my face with something fried at the end of the evening. It doesn’t matter what, really, as long as it’s salty and helps my failed attempts at flirtin ...   More

Bar Reviews The name “Park Avenue” hints at a certain grandiosity—we know this from the Green Acres theme song—but the chunk of Southwest Park Avenue that hosts Brasserie Montmartre (626 S ...   More

Bar Reviews Since opening in 1993, Rocco’s Pizza has been a haven for Powell’s shoppers looking for a quick place to nosh. Grimy and cluttered, it serves pizza that’s heavy on the dough and topp ...   More

Bar Reviews When I lived in the Brooklyn neighborhood, the bar now known as Hound Dog’s Bar & Grill (4463 SE Milwaukie Ave., 232-3547) was a regulars-only dive where dreams went to die. Terry’s Inn ha ...   More

Bar Reviews You shouldn’t feel bad if you can’t find the Yes and No (20 NW 3rd Ave). With a totally un-Googlable name and nondescript, hidden entrance, the new downtown watering hole—which occup ...   More

Bar Reviews If you go to North Portland’s North End Pub (3011 N Lombard Ave.), I can predict the exact course your eyes are going to follow: They’ll start in the long, bare entrance hallway, move over ...   More

Bar Reviews What makes a dive bar great? Character. The fancy clubs can have their plasma big-screens and their specialty cocktails and their full kitchens separated from the seating area. Maui’s (3508 N Wi ...   More

Bar Reviews “Agent 007…is actually a Whiskey man; he drinks 111 various types of Whiskey: 57 Bourbon Whiskeys, 47 Scotch Whiskeys...and 4 Old Fashions,” reads the menu at Shaken Martini Lounge ...   More