#1009 - Kelly's Olympian, Portland - 3/11/2010

426 SW Washington St., Portland, OR 97204 - (503) 228-3669
Est. 1957 (current location, est. 1902 a few blocks away)
kellysolympian.com - barfly - yelp - citysearch

#1008 - Rock Bottom Brewery, Portland - 3/11/2010

The Portland version of this national chain has something I haven't seen in the Seattle version -- a packed crowd on a weekday night, along with live music.  It wasn't exactly my kind of crowd and it certainly wasn't my kind of music, but at least the place was pulsing.

206 SW Morrison St., Portland, OR 97204 - (503) 796-2739
rockbottom.com/portland - ratebeer.com - yelp - barfly

#1007 - Champion Sports Bar, Portland - 3/11/2010

Meh...

Barfly calls this "The only dedicated sports bar in downtown ..." Portland is my favorite bar town on the west coast, but as a dedicated sports bar (a fairly low standard to begin with), this is a FAIL.

On the weekday evening I attended, a home state college team was playing in the conference tournament, and the hometown NBA team was also playing. But you could not hear either game because they preferred dumb top 40s music. That's not a serious sports bar in my book. The food is standard sports bar nachos and burgers type fare, the drinks are the standard sports bar beer and bad cocktails, and the crowd is standard medium quality hotel boring salesmen (the bar is in the downtown Portland Marriott).

marriott.com - yelp - barfly 
1401 SW Naito Pkwy., Portland, OR 97201 - (503) 499-6393