Willamette Week

Lombard House Narrow Train-Car Bar Filled With Vintage Olympia Beer Ads and Red-Cheeked Regulars

Say you’re hungry, and chances are one of the patrons near you works at one of the food carts across the street.

No Vacancy Lounge is the Most Ambitious Club Experience the Rose City Has Seen in Years

No Vacancy Lounge is Willamette Week’s 2018 Bar of the Year

Lots of Bars Make Craft Cocktails. Angel Face Makes Art

Whether patrons first visit tiny, pink-walled Angel Face as a mixological pilgrimage or stumble on the Kerns lounge after a meal at sister restaurant Navarre, newcomers at the horseshoe-shaped bar invariably ask for a drink list and appear shocked to learn there isn’t one.

Mary’s Club is a Strip Club Time Machine Back to 1954

Courtney Love danced here back in the day, and there's a signed picture to prove it.

Lutz Tavern Is the Bar Where Pabst Broke

Lutz claims to be the bar that started the national resurgence of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Higgins Is Downtown Portland’s Original Beer Bar

If there's anything you can take away from Higgins, it's that you can teach an old dog new tricks.

The Know Would Like Kyle to Eat Shit

The restroom needs more graffiti. But "EAT SHIT, KYLE" is a good start.

Want to Watch Golden State Either Make History or Become It? Century is the Spot

Already, Century has the vibe other would-be hipster sports bars have failed to create.

The Old Portland is the “Coolest Wine Bar in the World”

“This is the coolest wine bar in the world,” the Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor told us while sitting in his own Slabtown wine bar.

Lombard House is the Biggest-Hearted Small-Town Beer Bar in St. Johns

It's a literal house on Lombard, and not a big one.

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