Matthew Korfhage

Bar Casa Vale Still Makes Some of the Finest Cocktails in Town

In the year since WW named Bar Casa Vale 2017 Bar of the Year, the place has gone through more changes than Trump’s cabinet.

Upside Down Offers An Otherwise Bereft Brooklyn Neighborhood’s First True Patio Hang

Situated on Southeast Milwaukie across from the Aladdin Theater, Upside Down looks like one of those ramshackle aluminum and plywood burger shanties you’d expect to find by the side of a country freeway in the desert, ringed by picnic tables and a little pressboard fence.

Tough Luck Is Based on a Surefire Formula of Whiskey and Comfort Food

And judging from the crowds in the tight-tabled drinking hall at 6 pm, it’s already well-appreciated in its neighborhood.

The Nerd Out Is a Yearlong Boozy Comic-Con

There’s something to be said for commitment.

Unless You Follow Function’s Social Media Accounts Relentlessly, Most Visits Will Yield Very Pleasant Surprises

If you walk into tiny 23rd Avenue basement bar space Function PDX, you’ll discover the hardwood and black-vinyl place may have transformed into Small Bar.

Despite a Gallery of Sad-Clown Paintings and an Animatronic Eyeball in a Vise, Creepy’s Isn’t Actually Creepy

The new space from the owners of White Owl Social Club is less horror house than self-consciously quirky sideshow.

Cat’s Paw Saloon is a Chill Little Place Covered in Woodgrain and Remnants of Skateboarding’s Bad Old Days

Division still hangs on to some old Portland grit, even if here it comes scented with lavender.

Chandelier’s Menu is Devoted to Finding Bottles at the Outer Edges of What Sake Can Taste Like

In the darkness of a red-curtained room that looks like the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks, Chandelier owner Matthew Ellis is pouring a junmai genshu sake he says tastes like cheese.

The Standard is One of Portland’s Last True Neighborhood Bars

More than any other bar I know in Portland, it is a sodden vision of an ideal society.

Stammtisch Is a World-Class Beer Hall and the Best German Restaurant in Town

It was our pick for Bar of the Year in 2015.

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