Bar Reviews Sometimes drinkers put themselves in difficult positions. East Burn (1800 E Burnside St., 236-2876), a new multidimensional space housed in the former Nocturnal, tries to answer the immortal question ...   More

Bar Reviews SKIPWORKS, JUMPWORKS: Looking to socialize? Bring friends or look elsewhere. Hopworks (2944 SE Powell Blvd., 232-4677) is all about the beer, as evidenced by stool after stool, table after table, of s ...   More

Bar Reviews You’d think the weirdest thing about Portland staple the Virginia Cafe’s new digs (820 SW 10th Ave., 227-0033) would be the fact that it’s, well, new. The hardwood floor is gleaming; ...   More

Bar Reviews NORTHERN EXPOSURE: You know it’s a good sign when you go someplace for work and end up staying for hours—that’s what happened on my first visit to perplexingly named Southeast joint ...   More

Bar Reviews The Green Dragon Ale House (928 SE 9th Ave., 517-0660) is a nice place to relax, kick off your shoes (figuratively) and play a game or two of darts. But on a recent Thursday night, it was not a place ...   More

Bar Reviews The Red Eye Lounge (208 NW Couch St., 222-2915) is prime people-watching territory. Just one log-lined flight of stairs above Barracuda, one can grab a table on the edge of the former Amazon Club&rsqu ...   More

Bar Reviews On the east end of the Ross Island Bridge, there’s a half-gravel lot and a new set of pulsing bulbs tracing the silhouette of the Lucky Devil Lounge (633 SE Powell Blvd., 206-7350). Inside, the ...   More

Bar Reviews Approaching new Hawthorne ’hood bar Vertigo (4620 SE Hawthorne Blvd.), the spot looks plenty cozy. Blue and red party lights ring the tall, wraparound windows, and comfortably worn wooden booth ...   More

Bar Reviews You’d easily be forgiven for missing newish spot Bar Convivium (535 NW 16th Ave., 243-7399 ), considering it sits, for all practical purposes, under the household-cleaners section of the Pearl ...   More

Bar Reviews Four hours removed from my visit to The Standard (14 NE 22nd Ave., 233-4181), all I can smell is smoke. There are fans hanging from the expansive eastside bar’s high wooden ceilings, but no one ...   More