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1036 NW Hoyt St., 226-0200. 3 pm-2:30 am daily.
Low Brow Lounge didn't land in the Pearl, the Pearl
landed on Low Brow Lounge. Once just another dive proudly declaring its
lack of pretension, the bar has, somewhat miraculously, survived long
enough to take up the mantle as an oasis of indelicacy freaking out the
nouveau-riche squares filling the condos that have sprouted up around it
in the last decade. The sign out front makes it look like a $1 Chinese
restaurant. Menu items include "Tits & Tots" (chicken breasts and
tater tots), "Blueballs" (chicken cordon bleu) and jalapeño
cheese-stuffed "Crack Pretzels." There's a velvet Elvis painting on the
wall across from a cardboard gorilla shaded by fake palm leaves. Drinks
are sledgehammer stiff, the staff is famously surly and it's so dark in
the back corners you'll wonder what time the lap dances start. "It's Not
for Everyone" is its tagline, and while that probably exaggerates the
level of Portlandian wackiness going on here, in the context of the
neighborhood, no one can accuse the place of false advertising.
Happy hour: 5-7 pm daily. $1 off wells and drafts.
Entertainment: Pinball, Big Buck Hunter, DJs.
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