Victoria Bar

By Matthew Korfhage

North Portland's new 5,000-square-foot Victoria Bar has successfully merged the aesthetic of its owners' freeway-off-ramp nightclubs (Jackknife, Dig a Pony) and vegan whiskey patio bars (Bye and Bye, Sweet Hereafter) into a plausible template for citywide, upper-middlebrow dominion. They've knocked down a wall at the high-ceilinged former Trébol space to recreate the cocktail menu, Southern-cuisine fetish, and bright-tiled luxe feeling of downtown's Jackknife. But it also has Dig a Pony's DJ-friendly dance floor and Bye and Bye's picnic-table patio and good beer menu. For cred, there's art inside from Atlas Tattoo's Cheyenne Sawyer. Along with a big, sloppy $13 half-chicken on gravy-covered grits, former Jackknife chef Russell Van der Genugten offers surprisingly decent gluten-free vegan hush puppies and a rotating vegan po'boy.

Happy hour: 3-6 pm daily.

4835 N Albina Ave., victoriapdx.com. 3 pm-2 am daily.

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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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