Bars

Celebrate World Bartender Day with these 🍸 specialty cocktails

Today is World Bartender Day. It’s time to give thanks to the casual smile that’s always slinging drinks. To the person on the other side of the bar who throws and stirs and shakes their way into our hearts with their libations. To the ones who show us attentiveness. To the ones who we appreciate […]

/ February 23, 2022

Portland’s fun spots to sip at for🍹National Margarita Day

Today is National Margarita Day and we’ve rounded up 8 places in Portland where you can celebrate and sip, while enjoying some fun activities. Bowling, pinball, bingo, trainspotting, anyone? Read on! Putt-Putt The 10th Hole Margarita, at the Birdie Time Pub and Mini Golf, made with their house mix, Centarrio Tequila and Grand Mariner, is […]

/ February 21, 2022

Best Hot Drinks in Portland – Where the Locals Go

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name – or rather, where you can find a good hot drink when it’s cold outside. Same kind of comfort, only you don’t really have to talk to anyone. But you can. Hey, it’s Portland. Go as you please, but just go. Our top pick for […]

/ November 23, 2021

Spike your Coffee with Fire, Huber’s Style

The Spanish coffee may have been concocted in Mexico, but Portlanders know the city’s oldest restaurant, Huber’s Café, will put on a show to make you one.  Watch Huber’s bartender of 38 years, John Pierce, mesmerize us with flowing moves and a flick of his wrist. At the end of the show, their fresh-whipped cream […]

/ November 9, 2021

Tin Shed Garden Cafe delivers one of the best Brunches in Portland

Tin Shed Garden Cafe delivers one of the best Brunches in Portland Janette Kaden has been making brunch since before it was cool. Nearly 20 years ago, Janette opened the Tin Shed Garden Cafe on Alberta Street — back then, it was one of the only restaurants in the area. Now she has plenty of […]

/ November 4, 2021

Comfort Food at a Gastro-Bistro

Looking for date night dining on a budget in Portland for meat-lovers? Or maybe a great comfort food brunch? Green gravy for Saint Patrick’s Day? And and and….?  We recommend the Leaky Roof for meat lovers (but if there’s a vegan onboard, you might look elsewhere). The hometown vibe and cheerful faces make the Leaky […]

/ November 1, 2021

🍺 The Ultimate PDX Brewery Bracket: The Final Round

Who will take home the title of Portland’s Ultimate Brewery: Level Beer Brewing or Ruse Brewing? Vote now or forever hold your peace.

/ July 27, 2021

🍺 The Ultimate PDX Brewery Bracket: Meet the Final Four

We’ve whittled things down to our final four breweries in the Ultimate PDX Brewery Bracket. — which of these fine breweries will make it to the final round?

/ July 20, 2021

🍺 The Ultimate PDX Brewery bracket: Meet the Elite Eight

We learned a LOT from our second round of match-ups. Scroll on for the results — and start voting now for the Final Four.

/ July 13, 2021

🍺 Portland’s Ultimate Brewery Bracket: The Sweet Sixteen

Portlanders voted for their favorite local breweries in our Ultimate Portland Brewery Bracket, and whittled it down to our Sweet Sixteen.

/ July 7, 2021

🍻 Bottom’s up: PDX’s brewery bracket nominees

Show some love to your favorite Stumptown (and beyond) breweries by voting for them in our Ultimate Portland Brewery Bracket.

/ June 29, 2021

Swift and Union Pays Homage to ‘Cow Town’ Kenton

Portland is considered one of the most vegan-friendly cities in the U.S., but once upon a time, the area now known as Kenton was actually a company town built around meat. Today, the legacy of the Union Meat Company — which was purchased by Swift and Company in 1906 — lives on at a popular […]

/ February 1, 2021

Von Ebert Brewing Expands to East Portland

Most beer lovers have heard of the main Von Ebert location in the Pearl, but the brewery also has a lesser-known outpost in Hazelwood — one of Portland’s largest neighborhoods. Owner Tom Cook named Von Ebert after his grandma Ebert, the matriarch who brought his family to the U.S. from Germany in the early 1900s. […]

/ July 22, 2019

Why Bud Clark is so Special to Goose Hollow

It’s hard to love a mayor more than Portlanders love Ted Wheeler, but our city sure gave it a good run with Bud Clark. Bud opened the Goose Hollow Inn in 1967, and with the help of tavern regulars and neighborhood activists, he won Portland’s 1984 mayoral race in an upset that almost no one […]

/ May 24, 2019

The St. Johns Restaurant Where East Meets South

THE NEIGHBORHOOD: St. Johns THE PLACE: Fusion cuisine reigns among Portland’s foodie culture. But there’s only one place in St. Johns you can eat southern collard greens and korean kimchi harmoniously: Mama San Soul Shack. St. Johns has been historically lower income and more ethnically diverse than other parts of Portland. Mama San Soul Shack […]

/ April 3, 2019