PDX Pipeline posted a photo:

PDX Pipeline posted a photo:

PDX Pipeline posted a photo:

i would like to find a few bars that have the following features:

-comfortable, well-lit seating where i can read a book for hours at a time
-cheap beer
-cheap tasty happy hour food (the longer the happy hour the better, of course)
-opens relatively early (3ish maybe?  or earlier)
-cute alternativish-looking dudes (yes, like tattooed hipster guys, i can't help it if that's what blows my skirt up!)
-friendly bartenders
-not too crowded before dark
-smoker-friendly
-air conditoning would be nice

anywhere in inner pdx is fine as long as it is quick and easy to reach via trimet.  so far i have found these things at basement pub, but there are only two places to sit that get enough light by which to read, so i need some alternatives.

ALSO i would like to find a few bars with much of the same criterion, except with ample patio/sidewalk seating that allows dogs.  obviously these places would not need the comfortable well-lit indoor seating or the a/c.  since i would be walking my dog to these places, they would need to be in the general downtown area or inner southeast as close to burnside as possible.  preferably these places would have so much outdoor seating that we would not have to wait/fight for a place to sit.  so far we have found captain ankeny's but i am not sure how i feel about that place, it can get sort of crazy on sunny days.

thank you much!!!!

Southern Accent Man:
"Ain't nobody eat no fruit in the south, its all fried, double fried and doublefuck fried."

- The Basement Pub

-- Overheard by b!X

File this one in the shameless self-promotion department. From John Foyston's column in the Oregonian's A&E yesterday:

PINTS 'N' PRICES-- Have you noticed price increases at your local? Two of my favorite places have bumped up their prices: The Basement Pub increased craft-beer prices by a quarter and the Hawthorne Lucky Lab went from $3.95 to $4.25. Both pour generous imperial pints, and a half-barrel yields about 99 impy pints with almost no allowance for spillage, so these guys are just recouping the extra $25 that good kegs now cost. No gouging here.

Also, brewer Ron Gansberg at Raccoon Lodge said that in response to the Honest Pint Project, blogger Jeff Alworth's crusade for genuine 16-ounce or better pints, they've just bought 20-ounce imperial pint glassware for the Raccoon's Den downstairs and don't plan to increase prices.

Bold mine (obviously). Incidentally, Ron and I are going to try to connect next week to try out some of his super-groovy new experiments.

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divebarwife:

It's a fascinating subject I know...really...it seems to come up a lot - so here are my personal observations:

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