Since I got married I haven't been frequenting dive bars as much. I'll occasionally go to Hung Far Low if I'm seeing a show at Roseland but other than that I mostly go to more brightly lit places. My tolerance for smoke has also gone down. I've never had a huge problem with it, and a couple people smoking doesn't bother me. The problem is when a place has had smokers for years and not opened a window. Where the nicotine makes the walls sticky with crave-forming cholesterol.
That being said, I recently visited a new-to-me place. Obviously I am the last person in Portland to go there but I thought I would include it as the "Best place to get a drink before seeing a movie at the Laurelhurst."
This place is straight up disgusting. Like the scene from Fight Club where they are procurring fat from the plastic surgery clinic and bag gets caught on the barbed wire and Edward Norton ends up showering in lipid loveliness. So why go? $4 pitchers. $3 Sapphire and tonics. $.25 pool. Just wash yourself when you leave. There was some unidentified stickiness on the outside of my glass. I'm not suggesting they don't meet the health codes, but why risk it? And you can't find a Sapphire and tonic cheaper than that anywhere. This bar was left out of the NYT article about innovative Portland eateries. Must have been an oversite.
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