Loyal Legion

By Matthew Korfhage

Loyal Legion is home to what's likely the longest bar in Portland and 99 taps of all-Oregon beer, the largest selection anywhere. It's also home to the highest-paid dishwashers (everybody starts at $15) and the largest pair of mutton chops, on the head of beer director Herb Apon. Perhaps too many of those 99 beers on the wall are all-too-familiar to local beer geeks, but if you dig you'll almost always find a buried treasure like a double IPA from Upright Brewing—which was an absolute corker. But certain things have gone awry: The controversial super cold taps currently seem to be a warehouse for misfit beers as much as a place for beers that should be cold, the no-tipping experiment seems to have gone away while the $6 pricing remains (some beers have now shot up to 20 ounces), and it weirdly costs a buck apiece to add onions or kraut to the $6 house sausages. Others work better—like the $10 burger rescued from erstwhile swanky spot Gruner, and an event space upstairs showing all Timbers away games on a big projection screen.

ENTERTAINMENT: Timbers games, Blazers games.

710 SE 6th Ave., 503-235-8272, loyallegionpdx.com. 3-11 pm Monday-Wednesday, 3 pm-midnight Thursday, noon-2 am Friday-Saturday, noon-10 pm Sunday.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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