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A Brief Taxonomy of Portland’s To-Go Cocktail Containers

When Oregon finally approved sales of takeout cocktails last December, it threw a lifeline to desperate bars and restaurants who’d spent the pandemic clamoring to sell mixed alcoholic beverages to go. But the swift, sudden rule change left many of them with another quandary: What do you put them in?

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On March 16, Gov. Kate Brown ordered a four-week shutdown of all bars and dining establishments across the state of Oregon in an attempt to stem the spread of COVID-19. It’s a rough time for the food business. But as a consumer, you still have options.

Swift Lounge

Somehow both airy and cloistered, this Northeast Broadway lounge fills with chatty regulars throughout the happily extended early evening “jolly hours” to peck at honey-fried chicken crisps ($4), wet their beaks with “sissy” ($6) or “fatty” ($9) Mason jars of cocktails, and give way to the night owls perched alongside the DJ booth.

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swift lounge

A Brief Taxonomy of Portland’s To-Go Cocktail Containers

A Portland Restaurateur Has Started Three Delivery-Only “Ghost Kitchens.” Great Timing.

Swift Lounge

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