76 Best Bars in Oregon, USA

The Portland branch of the Bend-based Deschutes Brewery typically has more than 25 beers on tap, including nationally acclaimed mainstays Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Inversion IPA, and Black Butte Porter, plus seasonal and experimental brews. There's an extensive menu of well-prepared pub fare, too.

Notable for its European-style beers, including the rich Black Irish Stout and the refreshing Kölsch, Double Mountain also produces seasonal cherry-infused Kriek ales and a hoppy India Red Ale. The bustling, homey downtown taproom is also a great source for pizzas, salads, and sandwiches. There's a second location in Portland.

Part retro diner and part log cabin, the Doug Fir serves food and booze and hosts DJs and live rock shows from both up-and-coming and established bands most nights of the week. It adjoins the trendy Hotel Jupiter.

Once your eyes adjust to the romantically dim lighting, you'll find a curved bar, leather banquette seating, and polished-wood ceilings and walls in this Old Hollywood–themed bar in the Hotel deLuxe. The trendy cocktails are garnished with herbs culled from the hotel's garden.

With two homey, hipster-endorsed cafés in Northeast, Extracto holds its own against some of Portland's top roasters, thanks to its knowledgeable staff, careful bean selection, and small-batch roasting. There are two outposts on different ends of the Alberta Arts District the other is at 1465 N.E. Prescott Street.

On warm evenings, break from the chatter-filled midcentury-modern interior bar—with its teakwood ceiling and deep-booth seating—and snag a sidewalk table, where you can take in the activity of funky Hawthorne Boulevard. This place packs 'em in early, thanks to a generous happy hour that begins daily at 2 and continues until 8 pm—more than enough time to get happy. Wash down a few discounted craft cocktails with an order of steamed clams in lemongrass-coconut broth or marionberry-habanero chicken wings.

This revamped outdoor amphitheater offers dozens of concerts throughout the summer season and has room for 8,000 guests. You can pay a premium to take in shows from the two-story VIP pavilion, or stick to the ground level, where you'll find around a dozen food carts and—in the true Bend fashion—a large beer garden.

Hosting DJ dance nights that range from indie-pop dance parties to LGBTQ+ hip-hop nights and poetry slams, the 5,000-square-foot former auto-parts warehouse pulls in diverse crowds. It's sometimes closed early in the week; check the online calendar before you visit.

At this convivial downtown bar and bottle shop with café tables and a few comfy armchairs, you'll find an extensive selection of local wines, beers, and ciders. There's no kitchen, but guests are welcome to bring food in from nearby restaurants. For a sweet kick on one of those hot summer days in the Gorge, try a Sloshy Pop—these boozy gourmet popsicles come in refreshing flavors like strawberries-and-rosé and pineapple-lemongrass.

The city's oldest restaurant (est. 1879) is notable for its old-fashioned feel and iconic Spanish coffee cocktail, which is set aflame at your table. The old bar in the back has great character. Huber's is on the ground floor of the historic Oregon Pioneer Building, which is now the snazzy Hi-Lo Hotel.

Occupying a sleek, contemporary corner space on Division Street, Imperial carries a regularly changing rotation of about a dozen connoisseur-worthy microbrews and has shelves filled with hundreds of additional bottles of craft beers. While you ponder your beer options, you can order in takeout from any of the several restaurants on the same block.

Just about every seat in this hip bar situated on a pier that juts into the Columbia River offers stupendous water views. Catch the sunset with a well-crafted cocktail and perhaps a few nibbles—Thai shrimp tacos, pork potstickers—from the tapas menu. This place, known for infused spirits, buzzes until midnight or later.

This hip nightspot offers a fun environment for hobnobbing and enjoying creative craft cocktails, like the Blue Linen, with gin, cucumber, lemon, and local blueberries. Barrel-aged cocktails are a specialty, and you'll also find local and international wines, mostly Oregon beers, and tasty pub fare.

The darkly inviting but rather tiny sister bar to adjacent Grüner restaurant specializes in handcrafted cocktails, a well-curated selection of microbrew ales, and interesting wines. The kitchen turns out tasty nibbles, with an emphasis on cheese and charcuterie boards.

There's terrific music here nightly, including traditional Celtic tunes on Sundays, at this old-school pub, plus decent Irish food and imported ales.

Regulars crowd this chatter-filled brewpub to sip well-crafted beers, sit in cozy red booths, and listen to folk, jazz, country, or bluegrass music on its tiny stage. There are pool tables in an adjoining room.

Make the gorgeous 10-mile drive down the coast in Rockaway Beach and pop inside this rustic-chic bar with a cozy deck for a well-crafted cocktail—the cast-iron margarita with habanero-infused tequila and hot honey is a popular choice. Light appetizers are served, and guests are welcome to bring food in from neighboring Upper Crust Pizza.

A handsome spot with leather booths and a long central wooden bar, this Central East Side pub carries an eye-opening 99 ales on draft, from local standards to seasonally changing oddballs that delight beer geeks like the Pfriem barley wine and the Crux nitro stout. Hefty burgers, Austrian-style wood-smoked pork sausages, and chili-cheddar-smothered fries are among the delicious pub-food accompaniments.

With a reputation as an after-work eating and drinking hangout among local Portland chefs and restaurant workers, this always-hopping Vietnamese joint offers well-executed cocktails, such as the Single Knight: Four Roses Single Barrel bourbon, pho syrup, Angostura orange bitters, and a Lapsang souchong tea ice cube. The kitchen turns out delicious eats until 11 each night.

With a 7,500-square-foot spring-loaded dance floor built on ball bearings to ramp up the energy, this historic former dance hall draws local, regional, and national acts most nights of the week. Past performers include Sleater-Kinney, Jefferson Airplane, Emmylou Harris, Tame Impala, and Angel Olsen.

Green lanterns glow on the curvy bar of this cool spot where hip patrons sip inventive cocktails, many incorporating fresh fruit, all the creations of renowned mixologist Lucy Brennan. You'll find upscale comfort food in the adjacent dining room.

Producing finely crafted beers—Multorporter Smoked Porter, Ice Axe IPA, Highland Meadow Blond Ale—since the early '90s, this casual brewpub with stone walls and a fireplace buzzes in the early evening for après-ski dining and drinking. It's popular for its creative comfort food, including poutine with fontina cheese and peppercorn demi-glace and cast-iron-skillet-baked fondue.

A lively crowd packs the cool booths at this self-described "big-world diner," an old-school hangout on bar-lined 21st Avenue. Stop in before a movie at Cinema 21 next door for well-poured cocktails, globally inspired small plates, and daily happy hour.

Occupying a cozy two-room space in the middle of peaceful, green Ladd's Addition neighborhood, Palio has delicious desserts and good coffee drinks, and it's open later than most coffeehouses in Portland. Try the Mexican Mocha.

This old-school pub overlooks the ocean by Haystack Rock and garners considerable kudos for its beers, including the Kiwanda Cream Ale and deep, rich Tsunami Stout. The pub turns decent comfort fare. Pelican has three additional pubs in Lincoln City, Tillamook, and Cannon Beach.

At the northern end of the hip North Mississippi retail and restaurant strip, Prost! is an airy, amber-lit, contemporary bar specializing in old-school German beers like Spaten Lager, Franziskaner Weissbier, and Erdinger Dunkel Weisse. Nosh on Bavarian pretzels and other Euro snacks or venture next door to one of the city's best food-cart pods, Prost! Marketplace. The owners also operate the excellent German pub Stammtisch, on N.E. 28th Avenue.

Located in an odd old Victorian with a few haunted tables (you have to see them to understand), Rimsky-Korsakoffee serves up coffee, tea, and rather decadent desserts.

Sip on beer, port, or single-malt scotch in the cavernous basement of Ringlers Annex, a pie-shaped corner pub in the atmospheric Crystal Hotel, right where Harvey Milk and Burnside streets meet. It's part of the famously offbeat McMenamins brewpub empire.

This diminutive neighborhood spot doesn't look like much from the outside, but inside you'll find a horseshoe-shaped wood bar and spirits connoisseurs devoted to the bar's exceptional, typically tropical fruit cocktails. Half the menu is, as the bar's name more than hints, devoted to rum-based concoctions, including the best daiquiris in town (never too sweet, and made with high-quality, aged spirits).