Bar Reviews It’s got to be hard to open a bar in the winter. But despite all the things going against it—freezing temperatures, a shortage of spirits and a stale smoke smell that reminded my roommate ...   More

Bar Reviews In case you crave such a combination, there is a place where all-day breakfast and a cocktail containing absinthe exist on the same menu. The mashup is more odd than inspired, but Mother Maybel’ ...   More

Bar Reviews As its name implies, Jinx (232 NW 12th Ave., 224-0173) seems destined to fail. What was marketed as a martini-and-Tater-Tot bar turned out to be a boring, uppity Pearl District den—without a sin ...   More

Bar Reviews Of the scant all-ages venues in Portland, there’s only one (I think) that sells mustache wax. Sitting in a comfy nook almost directly across the street from Cleveland High School and next to the ...   More

Bar Reviews Fear not, earthlings: The recently renovated Space Room (4800 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 235-6957, spaceroomlounge.com) retains its just-off-the-Vegas-strip vibe. Glowing murals of Mount Hood and the Portland ...   More

Bar Reviews The Ash Street Saloon (225 SW Ash St., 226-0430)—which turns 15 this week—is one of the most oft-overlooked venues in town, and that’s never seemed quite right. It might be because i ...   More

Bar Reviews At first, we were scared. The completely re-imagined and reconstructed version of Mississippi Studios (3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895) that opened in March looked nothing like the living room-sized ...   More

Bar Reviews I’m a finger into my second bourbon before I realize I’ve been here before. Pre-smoking ban, Yur’s (717 NW 16th Ave., 224-0160), an anonymous tavern standing like a North Korean redo ...   More

Bar Reviews Walking into Anju (3803 N Williams Ave., 282-1063) during happy hour on a Wednesday may have not been the best time to assess its popularity. Still, given the sparse but telling reviews scattered onli ...   More

Bar Reviews Two months ago, the sizeable space last home to Rock’s on the corner of Northeast 20th Avenue and Alberta Street became The Hilt (1934 NE Alberta St., 971-255-1793). Unlike the previous tenant, ...   More