Portland Guide
Help your fellow attendees find awesome ways to eat, drink and be merry while visiting Portland for Clojure/west!
- Rogue Distillery and Public House (1339 NW Flanders, Portland, OR)
- Los Gorditos (Davis St location .5 miles from hotel)
- Mother's Bistro (get there early for breakfast)
- Deschutes Brewery
- Q
- Vegan Restaurant Suggestions
- The Native Bowl
- The Whole Bowl (various locations)
- Here After
- Prasad
- Harlow
- Proper Eats
- The Bye and Bye
- And Cafe (breakfast/lunch)
- Back to Eden Bakery
- Petunia's Pies & Pastries
- Los Gorditos (Davis St location .5 miles from hotel)
- Blossoming Lotus (1713 NE 15TH Avenue Portland, OR)
Portland is famous for its beer, with 116 breweries within a one-hour drive, according to the 2017 Willamette Week Beer Guide (the paper version is still available at coffee shops and other newspaper-having places, pick one up if you're into beer).
The Willamette Valley south of Portland is great pinot noir country, and there a number of good wine bars and urban wineries where you can sample Oregon wines:
- Oregon Wines On Broadway is a wine bar within close walking distance to the hotel
- Enso Winery is an urban winery with a great tasting room across the river on SE Stark St
- Teutonic Wines, also in SE Portland, is the place to go if you German/Austrian-style Oregon wines and/or late 70s hard rock on vinyl
Washington and Oregon are orchard country, and hard cider is experiencing a renaissance. Local ciders are on tap in most bars, but cideries and tasting rooms are mostly on the east side of the city.
- Rev Nat's is reachable by streetcar across the river
- Cider Riot is the place to go if you like your cider to be English punk-themed.
Close-in industrial Southeast is home to Distillery Row, with more distilleries within a few blocks of each other than you could responsibly visit in a day. In NW Portland, Bull Run's whiskeys, Clear Creek's brandies, and Aria's gin are in a small radius reachable from the hotel by streetcar.
- Clyde Common on SW Stark & 10th is a finalist for this year's James Beard award for outstanding bar program.
- Pepe Le Moko just around the corner is a neat basement cocktail bar with excellent classic and tiki-themed drinks.
- Kask on SW 12th & Alder has a great inventive cocktail list, with the bonus of having bar snacks provided by Superbite next door.
- If you are into whiskey, the Multnomah Whiskey Library can be a little tough to get into but worth it.
- If you want to venture further afield, Hale Pele on NE Broadway is a modern reimagination of mid-century tiki bars.
- Saturday Market (if you stay Saturday morning)
- Powell’s Bookstore
- Fancy coffee is everywhere. If you're unaware of what to try, order a "single origin pour over" or a "cold brew nitro" -- it may be pricey but worth trying.
- A couple places to try within walking distance of the hotel:
- Public Domain (SW Broadway & Alder)
- Courier (SW Oak near Powell's)
- Half-day trip to the closer of the waterfalls — visit 1-3 depending on how long stay at each/etc.
- Trip to the coast (maybe 1.5 hr drive?)— Cannon Beach (Haystack rock and tide pools), Seaside, Astoria, Newport.
- Columbia River Gorge Half to full day trip depending on activites
- Japanese Garden
- Oregon Zoo
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (great for kids)
- Mt. Tabor Park
- The Portland Timbers are playing at home Sunday at 6:00 pm; tickets are perpetually sold out but available on the secondary market through apps like SeatGeek
- Other Ideas:
- Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden
- Leach Botanical Garden
- Hike at Audubon Society of Portland Sanctuary
- Hike to the Stone House at Forest Park
- Trolley (10th/11th streets from SW to NW)
- Walk along the Willamette Riverfront Park
- Soak at Salmon Street Springs
- Pioneer Square
- Keller Fountain, SW 3rd & Clay
- Teacher's Fountain