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The Top Five Places to Drink in Portland This Week

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Victory Bar Is One of Portland’s All-Time Great Bars. The Automatic Is…Well, a Bar.

The lone TV is high-def and tuned to football on Sundays. The drinks are classics, or tweaks of classics, and the food menu is all sandwiches and skewers. It’s kept Victory Bar’s leather booths and tin ceiling fixtures, but swapped the Orwell references for a (possibly apocryphal) Bukowski quote near the restrooms, and the only conversation piece is a lovely mural stretching across the back wall.

The Top Five Places to Drink in Portland This Week

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The 1980s Called. Impala Brought Their Tacos Back.

The tacos are distinguished by size and sauce: They’re bigger and bolder than anything you’ll get at a standard Taco Tuesday. If you’re struggling to break a Taco Bell addiction, come here to get hooked on a product of higher purity.

The Top Five Places to Drink in Portland This Week

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Ancestry Brewing’s Third Taproom Docks Along Southeast Hawthorne

Now the company is docked in the far reaches of Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, in a sprawling ground-floor space beneath three stories of apartments. It looks as if it had been designed by someone from one of those HGTV house-flipping shows, with crisp white accent walls adorned with the brewery’s A-shaped anchor logo—a nod to the Navy careers of both the elder Turner and the brewery’s cellar manager, Mel Long.

The Top Five Places to Drink in Portland This Week

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Shine Distillery Applies the Brewpub Formula to a House of Spirits

If you can ignore the overly glossy finish—and perhaps wait a few weeks before its distillery operation really gets rolling—it’s likely Shine will grow on you as a welcome addition to a neighborhood that’s still drunk on its own newness.

Southeast Portland Soccer Bar 4-4-2 Will Reopen with a New Owner and a New Name

Earlier this summer, 4-4-2 Pub on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard closed suddenly, leaving regulars without a spot to gather for Timbers and Champions League games—well, other than Toffee Club a few blocks up the road. It didn’t shutter for good, though.

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