Bars that serve stiff drink in Portland
715 Inn
You probably would not have set foot in it, had you known it was there in the first place. Your loss.
Ash Street Saloon
Downtown dive venue with incredible sound.
B-Side Tavern
Nice dive on lower Burnside with a fantastic jukebox, patio, and colorful service.
Basement Pub
Popular neighborhood bar that isn't exactly a basement.
Bear Paw Inn
Portland's home for the hopeless, this little SE dive is a bizarre ride to bottom.
BOG (Bar of the Gods)
The Gods are happy that this is their bar.
Cheers Northwest
Formerly known as an "Old man's bar," Cheers is now apparently marketing itself as a gastro pub.
Chopsticks Express
Portland's most beloved karaoke bar for the not so serious would be crooner.
Club 21
Classic Portland dive/rocker green room. The gnome hut exterior boasts of currently unavailable "Steaks for Your Enjoyment."
Conquistador Lounge
Southeast sister to Casey Maxwell's Matador.
Eagle Portland
Bear bar! 'Nuff said.
Falco's Pub
Pudding shots!
Foggy Notion
Relax by Day, Party by Night
Galaxy
Beloved karaoke dive, rumor has it that it may soon be demolished to make way for something terrible.
Gator's
Friendly Neighborhood Dive
Magic Garden
This Portland institution is a bar first, strip club second, and a much sought notch on every off-key travel writer's belt. Friendly, up close and personal dancers on a tiny stage.
Matador
Frequented by homeless alcoholics, punks, D list celebrities, and slumming suburbanites, the Matador sets the bar by which all other Portland dives are measured.
Maui's on Williams
Cheap & friendly aquamarine cinder block box adorned with Hawaiian imagery restores warmth on cold a day.
Nite Hawk Cafe & Lounge
Large North Portland dive delivers as it did in it's glorious smoke filled past, albeit with a shiny new surfaces that do little to mask it's true nature.
Northside Lounge
Dumpy little ramshackle joint with stiff'n'affordable drinks, naturally attached to a Chinese restaurant. Regular rummies 'round the bar, naturally.
Papa-Son's Bar
The slow muttering daytime geriatrics transitions into the mile-a-minute prattling of the night time tweakers, and somewhere your brain explodes, gray matter found in the Airstream smoking trailer.
Penguin Pub & Eatery
Historic little antarctic themed joined is about the best thing the far reaches of Sellwood has going for it.
Perch Tavern
Surreal, woodsy, owl themed joint, with off-kilter regulars, and staff to boot, ergo, a must on any St. Johns crawl.
Pink Feather Restaurant & Lounge
If kitsch had volume, this one is turned up to 11. Family restaurant style dive serves up some of the stiffer drinks east of 82nd.
Scooter McQuade's
Popular pre-Crystal Ballroom shows and post-Timbers matches bar known for its potent Jello shots.
Space Room
Legendary upper Hawthorne bar known for its stiff drinks and awesome Portland murals.
Spirits
Super friendly neighborhood dive, and quite possibly the cheapest drinks in town.
Star Bar
Comfortable, casual inner Southeast bar with a great happy hour.
Thatcher's
Montivilla neighborhood bar with a variety of entertainment and a pledge to be the "local hangout."
Triple Nickel
Popular Belmont bar known for stiff drinks and dart tournaments.
Utopia Lounge
Dive bar within a Vietnamese restaurant.
Virginia Cafe
A Portland Institution
Yen Ha
Super Vietnamese dive, scattered array of regulars from scenesters to con artists to weathered boozers.
Yes & No
Downtown Hardwood Haven
Yur's
Down and dirty dive, unofficially Radio Cab driver's "lounge".
