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September 27th, 2011 By RUTH BROWN | Food & Drink |

Portland Now Has a Cocktail Cart

Yes, with actual booze.

cocktailBartender Becca June Conklin - Photo by Kenn Wilson, basilandco.com
Forget beer carts, Portland now has a cocktail cart. With actual booze.

To promote the second annual Portland Cocktail Week—a four-day festival of liquor-centered events, seminars and competitions coinciding with the Great American Distillers Festival, running Oct. 20-23—the Oregon Bartenders Guild is operating a cocktail cart, dubbed “the Hospitality Suite,” at the Cartopia pod at Southeast 12th and Hawthorne. Bartenders from the Guild will be serving up drinks like punch, boilermakers, gin and tonics and even Jell-O shots every Friday and Saturday night 6 pm-midnight from now through Oct. 23.

Yes, you can enjoy some of Portland's best drunk food—Whiffies, Potato Champion, Pyro Pizza—while actually getting drunk.
 
We have no idea how they got this approved by the OLCC, and frankly, we don’t care.

Crepes and cocktails
Photo by Kenn Wilson, basilandco.com


 
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09.27.2011 at 12:04 Reply

This has to be breaking so many state and city ordinances.

The only reason to care is all the thousands of hard working business owners struggling and suffering to comply with OLCC rules, while these folks don't have to.

 

09.27.2011 at 12:31

I call bullshit. You cannot do this kind of thing without a proper permit. If they did not have premission they would have been shut down within an hour, and most likey arrested. However, I have no doubt that the OLCC will be watching them like a hawk, and will try to shut them down on the first infraction.

 

09.27.2011 at 01:08

Yes, they have a permit.

 

09.27.2011 at 01:34 Reply

I am sure they have a temp permit - and will be watched like a hawk.
It just seems there are so many more zoning issues for regular bars.

 

09.27.2011 at 01:57 Reply

Wow, why so many bad and negative comments? I wish I had the cart by my house!

 

09.28.2011 at 01:22 Reply

There are at least two beer carts in beer pods in SE Portland, so a cocktail cart isn't so surprising to me. It's temporary, and thus I'm sure does have a temp permit, just as the OLCC permits all sorts of alcohol sales for events. 

Indie: get over it. If your business is suffering then make some changes, don't get pissed because someone else came up with a winning idea.

 

09.28.2011 at 03:02 Reply

This is awesome! Hope they can get something permanent going after this. After all people get drunk off the beer carts too, what's the real issue?

 

 
 

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