Gil’s Speakeasy Tavern
609 1/2 SE Taylor St, Portland, OR, 97214
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Address :
609 1/2 SE Taylor St
Portland, OR, 97214 - Phone (503) 234-8991
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Opening Hours
- Mon :11:00 am - 2:00pm
- Mon : 11:00 am - 2:00pm
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : No
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Late Night
Parking : Street
Bike Parking : Yes
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : No
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Divey
Noise Level : Average
Music : Juke Box
Good For Dancing : No
Alcohol : Full Bar
Happy Hour : Yes
Best Nights : Mon, Fri, Sat
Coat Check : No
Smoking : Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
Outdoor Seating : Yes
Wi-Fi : Free
Has TV : Yes
Waiter Service : No
Caters : No
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Carl E.
Dive bar with shuffleboard. Strong drinks (healthy pours...they have tully!) They make a mean reuben, and huge. Prime rib is delicious. Shuffleboard... Regulars may seem intimidating but they're friendly once you talk to them.
(4)Matthew M.
I love the Speakeasy Tavern. I love that it has a fraction in it's address. I love the food specials everyday. A special shout out for the 3 tacos for $1 on Mondays and the $5 french dip on Thursday. Seriously, eat the french dip. It is blow your mind good. The drink specials are great. Well drinks are 3.50 during happy hour (3-7) and domestic pints are in the $2 to $3 dollar range. The ambiance is awesome. Low celing, walls painted black, chalk scrawled missives from the denizens of portland adorn the wall. Free shuffleboard table, 3 pinball machines, and a flat screen tv with couch seating provide entertainment. The jukebox provides an eclectic and enjoyable musical element to the bar. Even more awesome, there is a dingy, tiny alleyway right out the side door of the Speakeasy in which one can imagine all sorts of tawdry activities occuring. Or it might be a passageway to a magical realm of make believe. It's your imagination -- use it. This is a great place to spend the rainy winter months drinking and pinballing away the blues.
(5)Lucas C.
Favorite casual bar in town. Pseudo-divvy, and every single thing I could ask for in a bar. Sick basement space (in case you didn't pick that up from the name) and it even has one of Portland's few elusive alleyways next to it, so go be creepy/hip and hang out in the cracks of urbanity. With plenty on tap, cheap liquor ($6 daily special for a pint of PBR and a shot of jameson), POOL, wifi, trivia nights, shuffleboard, decent food, and even couches I can't think of another thing to ask for. Oh and the best jukebox I know of in town. I love this place.
(5)Ron C.
This is an awesome and friendly bar in the SE, just a few blocks from the Burnside bridge. The environment is always friendly and upbeat. The bartender was awesome!! I can't remember her name, but that is OK! It clearly gives me a reason to go back....and soon!
(5)Tstarus R.
oddly enough good tacos! and shuffle board. Its kinda a cool and odd spot but i still love it
(4)Windy S.
We were looking for a cheap low key place to have some drinks on a friday night and Yelp led us to Speakeasy. We really enjoyed the atmosphere; long tables to sit at, a little living room loungy area, chalkboard walls and ceilings with messages written by past patrons. It was cool. The barternders were really friendly. They had $1 Rainier and $1 sloppy joes. The overall food menu is cheap. My husband and I split a turkey sandwich which was made with their own fresh roasted turkey! We will definitely be back!
(4)Aaron W.
Shuffleboard, pinball, pool table, booze, AND great food! What more can you ask for?!
(5)Harlequin D.
He switched from rum to whiskey, then he put her down. Swinging In the breeze. It's been some time but the time passes and there are many books with different covers. Been there done that. Fucked it up, won't be back!
(1)Christopher W.
Huge disappointment and missed opportunity here. The place is in an old speakeasy and you can see the bulletproof sliding door to see who is coming in but it is not a nice place to visit. Main reasons for 1 star: Too many homeless Not Clean No theme or identity
(1)Marty X.
Hungry? Only have a few bucks in your pocket? Head to Speakeasy, the food specials are amazing. They serve good quality bar food and the specials are insanely cheap. The drinks are also cheap. The vibe of this place is completely what you bring to it. This dive features a busted foosball table in the front, and no one really cares enough to fix it or move it. There are absurd quotes written in chalk on the wall. People will hang outside on the sidewalk, smoke cigarettes and politely deposit them in a provided cig-butt mailbox. All of these things together make Speakeasy what it is. If you come here expecting a high end gastropub or an actual bonafide speakeasy, take some time to reexamine your life.
(4)Mark J.
We have a standing Friday night date: Check out a new cocktail place, ideally far from our normal routine. Last Friday we opted for Gil's, and I have to say it met all the criteria: cocktails, and far from our routine. Gil's is a dive bar located in the basement of an apartment building. It's a place that looks like it's been doing a robust business as a dive bar since my Dad was what ever hipsters were called back then, looking for a cheap drink and a bit of company. (My Dad would be 90 this year, so here's to him.) We settled in at the bar, and were met by a great bar tender. We were served promptly and the drinks (margarita and a brown bomber: stout w/ a shot of bourbon side car) were up immediately, and generous. We tossed those back STAT and ordered 'round II (margarita and martini). The martini was a surprise... served in a water glass (.. charmingly enough because they don't have martini glasses we were told) and m.a.s.s.i.v.e. I was a bit to eager, tossed that down a little quickly I think given the subsequent buzz. We left a bit later to scout out something to eat, but realized much, much later that I'd left my briefcase hanging on the purse hook under the bar. The buzz continued unabated and it wasn't until we were driving home, hours later, that my fuzzy memory kicked in and I remembered that my briefcase was sitting at Gil's. That was not good. I had a mass of important documents in there, a shiny new laptop, other gear.. etc. We called Gil's, got the same awesome bartender, and she promised that she had my case. We tore back to Gil's, and there was the bartender, and there was my case. 100% in tact. I think that all says a lot about the place, and I will be forever grateful to the staff and customers at Gil's that night for the integrity and civility they showed to a complete stranger who was buzzed enough to leave something very very important in their care.
(4)Jeff S.
Best bar food and staff I have seen in my outstanding 2 years of bar hopping experience!
(5)Kelsie V.
Great divey haunt. Good character. an abundance of solid draft beer. No info on food.
(4)Michael K.
in my top 5 dives in portland. this place is great. drinks are reasonable, strong pours, and the food is great and affordable. check out their turkey dinner. delicious, home made, cant be missed. place is cozy. oh, and porn bingo. enough said :)
(5)Jenny S.
WEIRD bar but i guess i was expecting speakeasy & that IS NOT what you get at all! it's pretty much a dive bar w/ arcade games, shuffleboard, a pool table, & the most disturbing hipster movies playing in the background! there's a jukebox, 3 songs for $1, but if you don't feed the machine there's NO music playing which i'm not a huge fan of DRINKS are kind of weak on the alcohol but the bartender did make a tasty vodka gimlet
(2)Beth R.
Love this place. Great neighborhood bar where you can feel at home. Bartenders are rad, and good company. Food is always above and beyond what you would expect from you're local dive bar. If you're looking for some games, there is a pool table, shuffle board, and pinball. Easily my favorite bar in Portland.
(5)Travis M.
Best bar in Portland. If you don't like it it's because you're a gigantic shitbag. Sorry.
(5)Colleen C.
Came here on a Tuesday to catch their trivia night (my first one!). There was barely any room to sit --- it's a small place, and they had a good turnout for trivia. After finding some seats at the bar, we ordered drinks from *the* nicest bartender I've encountered in a long while. He was playing along with trivia as he worked, cracking jokes and just being generally awesome. The guy hosting trivia seemed a bit bummed about doing so, but it may have just been in comparison to the bartender. If I lived near here, this would be "my bar," and I'm glad I went once, but there's nothing that stuck out strongly enough to bring me back.
(4)Mindie E.
Good ol' bar food, but it is a long time dive bar that was smoked in forever...get over it and eat. Portions are very generous for great prices. Check out the daily specials for even more savings...a friend and I once had tacos and sodas for lunch, the both of us ate for $7. Had the french dip today and you just can't beat it for $5. The only thing I've ever had the slightest complaint about is the ladies room is a bit scary...watch your step for the bump in the floor and bring a friend to watch the door.
(3)Shellie Z.
Great place for a pit stop in the afternoon. Has great drinks, decent space and a lot of character. The only thing I would change is the music. It was left on some 1970's XM radio and I felt like my grandpa should be joining me. Actually there were a few grandpa's in there, but they were fitting right in perfectly! We had 5 drinks and the bill was less than $20! We played shuffleboard, but the table is not worn yet. So you have to watch your speed! They didn't have any salt out. I felt like I was bothering the bartender though, when asking for anything. I hope to see them get some outdoor seating too. Either way, I want to check it out at night. I would definitely return though!
(4)Julie T.
Yummy, another grilled Tillamook cheese sandwich to add to my list of grilled cheese! The other half took me here tonight as an addition to his trivia team..fun night out! He gave up alcohol for lent and me being the ole' holier than , gave up alcohol Mon-Thursday hence I cant coment on the drinks (TBC) :)
(4)Xander A.
I've been here once or twice before. And I know giving a dive bar a five star review might seem strange, but it's not trying to be one. It just exists as one. Here's the thing... some dive bars try really hard to be dive bars, so dirty hipsters will go and feel like they are having a dive experience while being able to get all their picky vegan comfort food and not at all being inconvenienced by actual and real dive bar types. This isn't that bar. This bar doesn't give a fuck. In a good way. It has everything a good dive should. Shuffle board, pool, amazingly cheap food and drink specials... I went in there for $1.00 sloppy joes, and was expecting a White Castle sized thing, but got a regular burger sized one. Their $7.00 nachos were massive. Beer was cheap, including their Imperial IPA they had on tap, which was priced the same as everything else. The bartender, unlike some shitty hipster bars I have gone to before, was super sweet, attentive, and overall a wonderful. I've had much worse service at bars nearly deserted before. But not this bartender. She was on top of it, and it was pretty full. AND she was the only bartender. Went on a Sunday, on an early afternoon, and it was full of crusty older fellows, and a few blue collar types. Everything about this place was amazing. Chalk drawings all over the wall, and the background music was awesome (mostly 60s garage rock). Love this place.
(5)Valerie W.
*Tainted Ribs* This was my brothers phrase for the time we spend at Gil's. Please let me explain. Brother. 25th birthday. Time to kill before Blazer game and looking for a place that we had never been to and had cheaper drinks. Low and behold Gil's. (Thanks fellow Yelpers). We go in. It's an odd location so to speak. The place is more crowded than I would expect. Small. One pool table. One shuffle board and some video poker. We order some $2 Sessions and get our shuffleboard on. It was actually quite hard to play becuase between the board and the chairs/seating...no space. Had to walk back and forth between other patrons watching football. Then we see it. Some huge table with a plethora of yummy looking food. Just sitting there. Waiting. "Wonder what that's for" I say. Who knows. We keep playing. Then there's an announcement and people start getting their grub on...and I mean everyone in the bar. "Is this for something special? Can you buy it? What's going on? It must be free? FREE RIBS!!??" NOM NOM NOM NOM My brother orders another drink. $3.50 for a well and it's not even happy hour. Awesome. Then his drunken hunger gets the best of him and before I know it he's back with a plate of some tasty looking ribs. And not just any ribs...these looked gah damn amazing and they tasted even better. Long story short he got caught. The food was for a Holiday Party and now my brother's delicious ribs were tainted. He felt really bad. Needless to say we left shortly after said incident. All in all: Not a bad little place. Bartender was nice. Definitely a true dive bar. *Tainted Ribs*
(3)Sam P.
Ladies, if you don't like your privacy while peeing and having the door have no lock on it so men can just open it and come inside if they so choose- then by all means, come to the Speakeasy! I had this happen to me just yesterday, and prior to the incident I had a positive view of this little dive. I was visibly shaken up by it and it has sworn me off from ever returning to this place until I know for sure there is a lock for the women's restroom. Their food is pretty good and for the most part the bartenders are friendly, but I find it hard to believe I am the first person that this has happened to and no one has complained and- thus- rectified the situation with A LOCK ON THE WOMEN'S RESTROOM DOOR.
(2)Nicole H.
One of my favorite bars. The food is like a hidden treasure, it is really really good. They have a lot of dive bar type specials like a PBR talbot and a shot for $6. But they also have nice booze and knowledgable bartenders, I got a whiskey sour last time and it was good. They have shuffleboard and sometimes project cool movies, I love all the crazy drawings and artwork. My particular favorite is the gold spray painted top ramen trophy. Not a fan of the gambling machines but I know it's a standard Oregon thing.
(5)Chad H.
This place is so Choice! All the bartenders are so freakin' awesome. They have decent food, and did I mention the bartenders are awesome. Seriously recommend this dive bar over most. You will definitely enjoy the people and good times ahead of you when you finally go in to this amazingly ridiculous place. The jukebox is tits! Go here now. Why aren't you there yet?
(5)Mark B.
Real-deal dive bar. Not the trendy type.
(3)Sarah C.
Dive bar that serves the BEST REUBENS I've had so far! It's piled three layers high with corned beef & plenty of sauerkraut on a marble rye. Choice of either potato chips or potato salad & I definitely recommend their large portion of homemade red potato salad. Creamy with a hint of mustard & so delicious! All this for under $6!! They have a small menu but like the price of the reuben & side they're all inexpensive meals. There's plenty to do here for it being a small basement, e.g. watch sports on a couple flat screens, play the slots, shuffleboard or pinball, dance to music from their jukebox or chill with your friends while drinking a microbrew (very limited selection) or cocktail. Great place that doesn't get too crowded!
(4)Delilah K.
Classic Punk music, chalkboard walls to match the ceiling and cheap drinks. The gal behind the bar was chill. Nice happy hour. There's plenty of reasons why this place keeps their regulars. You had me at punk but kept me with Pac-man, pinball and pool. Perfect .
(3)Scott P.
Local. Dive. Bar. Need I say more? $1 PBRs at happy hour, pretty darn good bar food (I recommend the nachos), and a friendly bar staff that knows the regulars. It's the kind of subterranean, dark, and easy-going dive you'd expect to shout "Norm" as you wander down the steps. A great place to drink cheaply and play some shuffle board. Oh, and $1 tacos on special.
(4)D S.
Happy hour rip-off. Speakeasy ADVERTISES its $6.00 "house salad" (chef's salad) on its Happy Hour menu for $1.50. What you GET is a double helping of their side salad (greens, a few spoonfuls of chopped tomato). Very blatant false advertising, and the thousand island dressing is horrible. Additionally, the (female) bartender's atttitude was unhelpful, inhospitable, and downright rude, as if we were inringing on her valuable time. Her attitude alone would have made us think twice about returning -- but the false advertising makes it certain that we will definitely NOT return.
(1)Lucas M.
awesome little dive bar, snuck in with some pals on a friday or saturday a while back, litterally the STRONGEST DRINKS i've ever had at a bar and I didnt know any of the bar tenders. its a small dive bar thats easy on the wallet. Its perfect change if your tired of downtown portland.
(4)Kimberly V.
"The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody sober enough to stagger to the polls." - Will Rogers As it went in the South, so it goes in the Southeast. Aren't you glad Prohibition turned out to be a terrible experiment? Nice bartenders, shuffleboard, video poker, and such and such. I mean, no Al Capone orchestrating any grand offings, but that could also be a good thing.
(4)Megan C.
This is the kind of place you just want to become a local at. Well, I assume at least some people would like to. The bartenders are the best (drinks are poured stiff after a few visits). They have shuffleboard, Oregon lottery and pinball. Bingo is one of the most amazing experiences in Portland (you can win anything from a glue gun to bible flash cards to a case of top ramen)!! Portland trendy? No. Good first date spot? Probably not, though thats how I discovered it. Smokey and just gritty enough? Absolutely!
(5)Laura G.
Met some friends here for a drink. They had yummy bar food. They also had a pool table, so that's cool. Drinks were pretty cheap, service was fast. This place was tough to find though! Could be because I live in LA, but for some reason on GPS it shows up as being on a river!?!?! Weird. It was ok for a dive bar.
(3)Schuyler C.
This place kept proving too hipster for me. A couple good experiences early on gave way to high expectations and consistent boredom, crap service, and pretentious under-aged street kids. Oh, and the bartender that I liked so much doesn't work there anymore. Meh, I'll give it three stars out of respect for the few really fun nights I have had at Speakeasy Gil's, but I don't go here anymore.
(3)joel d.
I like this place & I like all the people that work here. it's always been a good time. the only reason that I didn't give it 5 stars, the men's room reeks of piss & bleach. you'd think one would cancel out the other
(4)Eric T.
Definately going to have to go back to this lovely hole. Went tonight for Barfly's Weekly Popup Happy Hour, so this review will mostly be about the space. One of the first things I noticed, is that one of the reasons that this place is so dark, is because the walls are painted black. Reason? I suppose it's because of all the obvious chalk written scribblings on all the walls by the enlightened patrons. Even if you have a designated driver, you should still keep your eyes peeled for the traffic signs which are posted all over. I think the other resason why it was so dark is because it's in a basement and they had their egress window blinds closed, which when I peeked behind, had some very healthy looking plants, but I digress... Furthermore...Tabletop Pacman, shuffleboard, a pool table, megatouch, kick ass jukebox, 3 pinball machines, and 5 video lottery machines. Happy Hour I'll absolutely be going back for...$1 PBR's and my Friday PUHH night had great hot and bbq wings, sloppy joes, nachos with a great bean/salsa/cheese dip, veggie platter and a some kind of tuna dip that while tasted good, was a little on the salty side, but if you've read this far, pretend you didn't hear that last part. Sorry to leave this last, I'm still new to this whole reviewing thing, but the bartenders were...FREAKING AWESOME...very friendly and will have to write more about them after my next visit...thank you guys!!!
(4)Augustina M.
I am a fan. That should say a lot. When you walk into the speak you walk into history, this bar has been around since before bars were legal. The drinks are strong enough to justify the price, the food is acceptable....and the jukebox doesn't make me want to scream.
(4)Jessica L.
Very divey, not in a good way. My drink was served with towel floating in it...enough said
(1)Lauren G.
I feel like I should be honest with you, Speakeasy, you're never my idea. I'm fairly easy-going and if my friends really want to go to you, I'm not gonna make a fuss. I'll probably enjoy you once we're together, but something about you makes me shrug my shoulders and scrunch up my nose. I'm not sure exactly what it is. It's the not the bartenders; they're always super nice to me, it's not the sometimes-surly moped crowd; I can totally handle them, and it's not the cigarette machine; that makes me kinda nostalgic. I don't want to be superficial, but maybe it's your layout? There's always a lot of people squeezing around chairs, don't even ask me to play shuffleboard cause it's too crowded over there, and I never even go into the pool room cause there's no way in hell I'm sitting on that couch (I'm in no way a germ-a-phobe, but I'm willing to speculate some sensual seductions have occurred there and I don't wish to sit on their memory). I've been seeing a little more of you lately and I can tell you're trying to take things to the next level, but just be cool wouldya? Let's just take this slowly.
(3)B. S.
If you ever get tired of the bucket of clams at the sandy hut, head over to the speakeasy for taco night. This place has got some weird artwork, extremely cheap food and good drinks. There is sometimes an abundance of hipsters and/or 'greasers' but a good buckknife and some lime takes care of that problem pretty quick.
(4)Andrew B.
Wow, so I have been here once so I can only assume that the experience that I am about to enlighten you yelpers of is normal. Walk in. Typical P-town dive. Lots of smoke, dirt, grit but seemingly familiar and comfortable. Wow, seriously I don't even know where to begin. So we (Rob and I) spot the shuffleboard table, really the only reason we decided to go here, and proceed to grab two pints and the weights. The peeps below are certainly correct when they say that it is tightly packed in there. So we ask the people beside us, very politely, if they would like to join us in a friendly competition of shuffleboard. They gladly accepted. Enter hammered dude #1 (hereafter referred to as HD1) and a lady friend of his. So great! Here we go, right? Wrong. Oh so wrong. HD1 seems to be more interested in his peeps than he is in the current game of shuffleboard, basically neglecting the game entirely. FYI- if you start a bar game do me a favor and finish it. No, I don't want to hear about your new kicks, or that chick you banged, or blah blah blah. Anyway, HD1 takes offense (surprise surprise) to my encouragement for him to finish the game he started. After he, mind you I am sober, made his in-depth knowledge of every profane word there is in the English language known he decides he wants to "take it outside"- classy right? At this point he seems to be losing it over the mere fact that I am playing it as calm as I can, even smiling as he exerts his massive vulgar vocabulary. The barkeep sees what is happening and proceeds to tell HD1 that he needs to leave. Enter hammered dude #2, HD2, who just happens to be a regular, oh yeah, and seems to be at least 6'1" and say 280 lbs or so. HD2 proceeds to get up and just clock HD1 right in the kisser at least 3 or 4 times consecutively right as HD1 is running his mouth. At this point everybody's jaw is to the floor in that "is this really happening?!" sort of way. In any case HD1 stumbles and just so happens to stumble towards me, er, to me. So here we are, just 20 minutes after I stepped foot in the Speakeasy for the first time and I'm helping HD1 (the guy that just 5 minutes earlier wanted to fight me) to the exit as I am asking him if the bear paw of a fist that just dented his head did any serious damage. Meanwhile HD2 resumes his regular place at the bar and I am left so perplexed at what the hell just happened that the only thing I can do is drink the free PBR the barkeep so graciously gave me. It was a classic "what the fuck just happened" moment. Four stars just for the entertainment of seeing a cocky HD1 running his mouth while simultaneously getting clocked by a regular. Oh and the shuffleboard table might just be the best in the city. Liquor and beer selection typical for a place like this.
(4)Devon D.
Inexpensive dive---what you see is what you get. This place is pretty alright if you're into the scene.
(3)Jeff G.
Solid dive bar. Dark, good beer selection, good cheaper food selection, and awesome atmosphere. Lively crowd but not crowded. A couple good tv's playing sports. Good happy hour. Shuffleboard. I wouldn't go way out of my way to come here but if I'm close I'll definitely come back. Ranier served here!!!
(4)Angela H.
Rudest, snottiest, wanna-be bartenders of all time. I have never experienced such attitude from people who had zero reason to EVER have attitude towards someone who simply wanted a beer in exchange for money and if the service didn't suck ass- a tip! Screw this place. The music is too loud. The place is too smoky even for a smoker. The bartenders are friggin idiots.
(1)Karen S.
My friend and I went in to the Speakeasy for an afternoon drink and I had only two well shots. With in an hour I was sicker than I've ever been. I did not drink anything that was out of the ordinary for me and the reaction I had was unlike any I've had before. My friend also became very sick, something that does not happen with as little as we had to drink. I'm not sure what happened, I don't think it was the bar's fault (our drinks did get left alone at one point) but still ladies be careful.
(1)travis t.
Sleazy and dangerous with crap service. There are 'dive bars' which are fun, laid-back places for a cheap drink, and then there are dive bars, like this place, where gangs of blackout drunks are allowed to wander around, harass customers, and beat them up outside without any of the imbecilic staff lifting a finger to stop them. Go try the Basement up the street - this place isn't worth the risk.
(1)Noland B.
Decent little dive, stiff drinks and I'm partial to the $6 shot o' Jamie and PBR tall-boy combo. Entertain great patience if ordering food OR if someone else orders food. But, otherwise, good music, good vibe, good history here.
(3)Heather E.
If I ever move to Portland....this will be my local dive bar. As I entered the Speakeasy Tavern I was greeted with a stiff Vodka Tonic that made me forget about the cold weather outside. Add Comfy couches and a shuffleboard table and I was set for a chill-laxen night! I would def. come back here again....esp. since the young punk bartender was easy on the eyes!
(4)Lenny B.
Very nice basement bar with shuffle puck, pinball, good strong drinks, and one of the best reubens in town. A hidden gem of a place.
(5)Shane R.
Two words: Prime Rib Thursdays (crap! Three words)
(5)David T.
The Speakeasy is a gem of a bar. Rotating groups of people. Sometimes neighborhood regulars, some of whom haven't been kids for awhile. Othertimes, large gatherings of younger people, apparently from all over, Fascinating how it changes. Wide selection of alcohol. Great bartenders. A pool table attracts occasional superb players, several regular shooters and anybody else who wants to play. Shuffleboard. Music. Food. Ah yes, the food. Thursday prime rib lunch. Barbecued in the side alley. Excellent food and value. It doesn't figure and that's partly what makes it so great. Neighborhood business people show up Thursday. Still little known and that's OK because it's a small scale lunch operation. Very cool vibe. Some sports fans, some partyers, some observers. Friendly regulars.
(4)alexandra k.
The Speakeasy is my favorite bar in all of Portland! Perhaps because it's located in the basement of the apartment building adjacent to where my ex lives (having a fight? walk through the alley, viola! BAR.) or maybe it's because they have Shuffleboard or because they have the Super Bowl Shuffle on the juke box. All of those things, with the addition of cheap drinks, makes this the best bar in Portland.
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