Doug Fir.....coolest bar!!!

Claire · 01-31-2005, 12:42 AM

Doug Fir:

Got the chance to go for a quick drinkie (pink lady martini) here tonight and I freaking loved it!! There's an old school motor hotel, the Jupiter, wrapped around this two level bar/restaurant. You get a discount at the Jup (wink, wink) if you save a receipt. What was cool was that the balconies of the Jupiter were teeming with hot people dancing. So weird for a Sunday night in Portland.

The bar itself is soooo cool.

It's like being in a Twin Peaks ski lodge in the 50's.

Here's a review I found:

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This combo of slick '50s lounge and rustic mead hall draws a diverse crowd for live tunes and late-night noshes.

The Scene
Exposed fir beams and a winding wooden bar are illuminated by chrome light fixtures in otherwise retro-mod decor. Rough-edged rockers huddle in vinyl booths, while a swanky Eastside cohort indulges at the blond-wood counter. Everyone is cast in flattering indirect light, amid brassy beads and gold-tinted mirrors.

The Draw
Downstairs, a 300-person music venue conjures music hounds seven nights a week. Upstairs, a huge menu of Northwest comfort cuisine and knockout libations satiate pre-show partiers and after-hours clubhoppers. Tasty eats like flaky halibut fish and chips, meltingly delish crab cakes and fire-grilled artichokes are great to share over saucy blackberry cosmos. Heavier faves like the meat loaf or biscuits and gravy will help bring you down after a long night of cocktails and clubbing. The best part: The menu is served 21 hours a day.

We're going back on a Friday or Sunday SOON!!!

I can't wait!!

€uroMeinke · 01-31-2005, 12:48 AM

ooo swanky - thanks for the tip

Not Afraid · 01-31-2005, 12:50 AM

This look like a fun place! And the menu is served 21 hours a day!

Take some more pics. We'll have to compile all of the bar reviews in one place on LoT (at some point).

Claire · 01-31-2005, 01:13 AM

See the beads???

Claire · 01-31-2005, 01:29 AM

OMG. We're doing my sister's bachelorette weekend there!!! Hahaha!!! I just called her.....we're getting two connecting rooms at the Jupiter to pre-func and sleep. She loved it there tonight.....we're so doing it! I've been trying to think of a place....this is IT.

Yay!!!

I've got an email in to the lounge to see if they can help us out with a table/room in the lounge for dinner.

MickeyD · 01-31-2005, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

We'll have to compile all of the bar reviews in one place on LoT (at some point).

Bar reviews! Now there's something I can do!

That looks like a Suh-wanky place Claire! I can totally picture myself drunk off my ass at 1:30am ordering meatloaf & gravy.

cirquelover · 01-31-2005, 12:28 PM

Thanks for the heads up! That looks like an interesting place. I've never even heard of it, is it new? You can't go wrong with 21 hours of food!
Have a great bachlorrette party there!

UvaGirl · 01-31-2005, 12:57 PM

Blackberry Cosmos!!! Say no more....

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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	ooo swanky - thanks for the tip __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	This look like a fun place! And the menu is served 21 hours a day! Take some more pics. We'll have to compile all of the bar reviews in one place on LoT (at some point).
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Claire Shagilicious Disneyland!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fulfilling my destiny..... Posts: 740	See the beads??? __________________ Miles: It tastes like the back of a fing L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bull**. Fin' Raid. Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.
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Claire Shagilicious Disneyland!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fulfilling my destiny..... Posts: 740	OMG. We're doing my sister's bachelorette weekend there!!! Hahaha!!! I just called her.....we're getting two connecting rooms at the Jupiter to pre-func and sleep. She loved it there tonight.....we're so doing it! I've been trying to think of a place....this is IT. Yay!!! I've got an email in to the lounge to see if they can help us out with a table/room in the lounge for dinner. __________________ Miles: It tastes like the back of a fing L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bull**. Fin' Raid. Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.
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cirquelover Cruising around in my automobile... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,617	Thanks for the heads up! That looks like an interesting place. I've never even heard of it, is it new? You can't go wrong with 21 hours of food! Have a great bachlorrette party there!
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UvaGirl Somewhere beyond the sea Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 396	Blackberry Cosmos!!! Say no more.... __________________ Cause I'm a train wreck Waiting to happen Waiting for someone to come pick me up off the tracks
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