The Top Five Places to Drink in Portland This Week

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(Katana Triplett)

1. Wonderly

4727 NE Fremont St., 503-288-4520, wonderlypdx.com.

The market for upscale cocktail spots with a casual twist is oversaturated, but Wonderly manages to pull off something fairly special. The design has a mellow West Coast aesthetic, while the drink list flirts with the trend of "classic cocktails plus something extra."

Read the full review: A Fancy Cocktail Bar on Northeast Fremont? Somehow, Wonderly Makes It Work.

(Henry Cromett)

2. Pink Rabbit

232 NW 12th Ave., pinkrabbitpdx.com.

Portland's second bar named after a National song, Pink Rabbit has an appropriately crimson hue, with lush, velvety furniture, a glam-rock soundtrack and a drink called What Did Harvard Teach You, which evens out the smoky burn of scotch with honey, lemon, ginger and sparkling lambrusco. It also serves pork tonkatsu sliders (three for $10) with a sweet and spicy slaw perfect for soaking up the booze.

Read the full review: Portland Now Has Two Bars Named After Songs By the National. What Would Singer Matt Berninger Think Of Them?

(Christine Dong)

3. Jinx

3000 NE Killingsworth St., 503-288-8075, jinxpdx.com.

Though full of high-end culinary hot spots, the restaurants dotting Northeast Killingsworth and 30th Avenue offer little solace for house-bound punk parents in need of escape. Enter Jinx. With a clutch of newish pinball machines and a modestly priced kids' menu, there's plenty to keep the offspring occupied while unwinding with a $3 Miller High Life tallboy as the Buzzcocks and Suicide play on the stereo.

Read the full review: For Housebound Punk Parents in Need of an Escape, Jinx Is a Godsend

(Andrea Johnson)

4. Avenue 23 Tap & Table

1620 NW 23rd Ave., 503-755-5055.

Taking over the space recently vacated by one of the city's oldest brewpubs, Lompoc Tavern, the Northwest Portland outpost of Tap & Table won't eclipse Breakside as the best place in the neighborhood to get a beer, but the 16 taps are diverse and gratifying, with equal attention paid to mainstays like Ecliptic and Fort George as well as relative newcomers like Ruse and Rosenstadt. There's something for everyone, save the occasional chin-stroking beer geek who probably won't be going here in the first place.

Read the full review: Avenue 23 Tap and Table Replaces One of Portland's Most-Loved Brewpubs with the Populist Beer Bar Its Neighborhood Needs

(Laurel Kadas)

5. Hoxton Basement Bar

15 NW 4th Ave., 503-770-0500, thehoxton.com.

Located behind a door with a sign that reads, "Knock knock knock," the Basement Bar at the new Hoxton Hotel is a diminutive cocktail lounge that could easily pass for an after-hours industry hang in Lower Manhattan. Skip fruity drinks like the mai tai or the whiskey sour and opt for the expertise of the bar staff, which included a Multnomah Whiskey Library alum.

Read the full review: The Best Thing at the New Hoxton Hotel Is Hidden in the Basement

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