Jackknife

By John Locanthi

Jackknife is a place where you go to recapture the glory of your early 20s or to at least make one final attempt. While most hotel bars are reserved for lonely travelers on business trips, the Jackknife is a loud, packed, Old Town bar dressed up for its job at the Sentinel Hotel—maybe in a dress shirt or cocktail dress. On the weekends, you'll want to get here early as there are sometimes lines and the bouncer does take capacity seriously. From the long marble bar, the crowd and ample mingling space can make it feel like a college bar. But the furniture is nicer, the people are better dressed (and less embarrassingly drunk) and the food and cocktail menus are a hell of a lot better. Not to mention there's a back room sometimes filled with corporate clients.

HAPPY HOUR: 4:30-6:30 pm. Select cocktail, beer and food specials.

ENTERTAINMENT: Photo booth

614 SW 11th Ave., 503-384-2347, jackknifepdx.com. 3 pm-2 am daily.

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John Locanthi

John Locanthi

Willamette Week's resident fashion icon and chest hair model, John Locanthi writes about fast food, pop culture, football, nanobubble-infused water, copyright law and whatever else the paper will pay him to write about. This University of Oregon grad spends his spare time live-tweeting old movies and TV shows and otherwise living in the past. Also, he once won a health reporting award for a story about a llama.

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