Fixin' To

8218 North Lombard Portland, OR 97217
Phone: (503) 477.4995
Located in: Northeast Portland & near North Portland - Visit Website
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BarFly's Review of Fixin' To

It had to happen, I guess—a bar named as a Southern trailer park, serving up trashy-to-NW Southern bar food. Because after My Name Is Earl, rednecks are funny, not scary? Right?

Anyway, this St. John’s locale was co-started this February by Portland Monthly editor Bart Blasengame; it is intended as a dive though the fixtures are too new for the distinction so the irony sort of bleeds through the place in a very—shall we say it?—1990s sort of way.

The interior bar and barshelves are pretty utilitarian/unpretentious up there in the St. John’s, the crowd of aging hipster with a hint of a truck-stop, arm-tatted, post-rockabilly vibe seeping in on the night we visited. (Note: we like aging hipsters; it means you’ve earned your goddam stripes.)

Also: the bar menu includes more Ritz crackers than you’d ever expect anywhere outside a Montessori school, including, no shit, Ritz-encrusted chicken, not to mention the Rotel chili and Frito pie. Ah, brand-name Southern trash casseroling at its finest. The Fixin’ To, I think we like you.

Open 4pm-2am Monday-Friday, 10am-2am Saturday and Sunday.

Reader Reviews of Fixin' To
Fixin' To has 4 out of 5 based on 2 ratings and 3 user reviews.
Dog friendly!

I love this place! Its incredibly dog-friendly, far less dangerous than the other St. Johns bars and if you get food from any of the local food carts you can eat then there while enjoying a drink. Everyone wins!

Reviewed By BarFly User Imbibescribes on July 29, 2011, 12:28 pm
The Fixin' to

Love this place. Then again, I'm an aging hipster. The husband and wife (I assume) owners are very nice. Great place to have a few, relax and chow down on decent bar food. St. John's is getting better and better all the time.

Reviewed Anonymously by Mike O'Grady on July 5, 2010, 7:46 pm
Tryin' the new place

Went for brunch, first time there. My gal got bloody mary, which she liked a lot. We both got biscuits and gravy, one vegan, one bacon. Yeah, the bacon tasted better- what'd you expect?, but they were both delish. The only bummer: I got a bowl for $7, and my gal got the cup for $4. Sure looked like the same amount of food to me... maybe a smidge more gravy in the bowl, but both 2 biscuits. ORDER THE CUP. Worth checkin' out. Beers on tap and liquor. Small but decent looking menu.

Reviewed Anonymously by Angusvox on February 14, 2010, 11:51 am
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