Slow Bar — Restaurant in Portland

For all of the times I spent in Portland, having lunch here will always be one of my favorite memories. My friend Joy invited me to make a trip with her to Miller Paint to order interior wall coverings for her home. I was offered lunch for my time and was treated to an amazingly prepared lunch. The atmosphere was very reminiscent of the small Lewis County holes in the wall that fill in the gaps between businesses back home. In many ways, Joy and I were taken back into our own past as we visited and shared one another's stories of the dark alleys we get lost in ourselves.

This was no dark alley though. Just two lost souls recognizing one another for all the places we have been stuck struggling with our own personal decisions to get up and keep moving or bury our head to the problems we were taught to ignore. I looked at the walls and reminded myself that it is the journey beyond the past that I am most grateful for. And places like this that feels like home. The love and attention that has gone into making this place what it is was felt the moment I walked in. Like home, the goodbyes are drawn out for good reason, absorbing the fineries of a well conditioned group to serve and stand proud with every thing they put into their work.

It takes a village to raise a child was what I was told. This is one of the special places where a person can let themselves be who they know themselves to be. Then carry the memory of the place with them to tell others so that the wonder I experience here lasts for others to...

This bar is one of the most underated places in town. They have really high quality food (this is not a dive bar!) at really excellent prices (menu items run $10-15). They also have excellent bartenders and their own custom barrel booze.

When I first started coming here this place won all kinds of awards and got all the top ten lists for burgers and drinks, and it's a real shame they don't get those anymore just because they aren't the brand new choice. Most of the places that have landed in the top ten burger lists in Portland over the last ten years are out of business, but the Slowburger is still here in all of it's glory.

For food choices I recommend either of their burgers, the fried chicken sandwich, pastrami sandwich, or their steak frites. By the way, for the price there is no better bar steak in town (and I have tried probably 30 different places because I love steak :).

For drinks they have a really good house Manhattan and Old Fashioned. Their house Bourbons are custom single barrel Makers Mark or custom single barrel Elijah Craig Rye. I think they also do custom Gin and Tequila but I'm too addicted to the bourbon to try them. They also have a really good wine and beer selection.

Only possible downsides are the neighborhood (kind of a sketchy area) or the music ( if you don't like punk/alternative rock).

You owe it to yourself to try Slow Bar. One of the few places where you can tell the owners are passionate about both the food and drinks, and all at a very...

I want to be fair in my review, because we didn’t have a stellar experience, but maybe it’s because we had never been there, and because of the name we though it was a bar more than a restaurant. We came wanting to just have one beer and sit outside. It was a lovely sunny day, but also the place was really too warm to sit inside with no air flow. The server was nice (tho he seemed kinda scattered and busy. But we understand). He said that we were welcome to hang out and have a beer outside but that they weren’t able to do tableservice out there. That was fine, because we were not ordering food. So we got our beers and went outside only to find that the benches for the tables we’re actually locked into an upright position and we couldn’t sit there. So we had to sit inside. We just didn’t really get what we were looking for. But the place was clean and the food smelled and...