Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark StPortland, OR 97214
503/ 239.9292
Located in: Southeast Portland - Visit Website
BarFly's Review of Goodfoot Lounge
While the basement booths and dancefloor should be left to the breakdancing cliques and those eagerly wobbling booty to the hip hop/reggae/world beats - especially summers, when the absence of ventilation creates an entirely different sort of funk - separate entrances help keep the largish beer hall upstairs patchouli-free. Straightjohn neighborhood residents treasure the games and pool tables and micros (organic, natch), and an attractive element mills about most weeknights seemingly unaware the Bonfire lies just down the street. Monthly art shows high on the trippiness quotient attract, so to speak, great buzz.
$4 menu 5-7pm daily.
Happy Hours
I had not been to the Goodfoot in close to 3 years I suppose. They had just started featuring booze...which consisted of about a half dozen bottles on a shelf on the back wall of the bar. Well, the shelf is still there and the selection has not expanded! This is not the place for booze drinkers wanting anything more exotic than shots or a gin and tonic.
Place has decent pinball, a bit more crowded on Fridays, downstairs was a no go all together though.
Ahhh...the Goodfoot. A great place to go for decent beer, a nice game of pool, and some kick ass fucking art. I've been thoroughly entertained on many an occasion at the Goodfoot for the past couple of years - when I moved back into the neighborhood a few months ago, the Goodfoot is where my disposable income went to. My local place - MY spot. Not anymore, though. I have a fucking bone to pick with portland - all you goddamned motherfucking scenesters and hipsters and pretentious fucking nitwits who think rude service is good service - FUCK YOU. Its called a fucking GRATUITY for a reason, you fucking illiterate shitheads. I got kicked out of the Goodfoot after years of patronage because one bartender was so fucking rude to me that I didn't tip a fucking cent - an incident that has only happened once before in my life. And I, my reading devils, am an EXCELLENT fucking tipper - because I work in the service industry and know what its like to work for tips. Here's the secret, fucktwats - you actually have to WORK for a fucking tip. Just because you work as a server does not mean you are entitled to extra money for no reason. Now don't get me wrong - I tip everyone, even if its only somewhat kind of decent service. If you mess up my order, if you take a long time, if you forget this or that or the other - I'll fucking tip you anyway, because you are still doing your job. What I absolutely will not tip for is some fucking bitch of a bartender yelling at me because she's too fucking stupid to remember my last name, then slamming the pay-tray down in front of me because she thinks her fat-ass is too cool for school to treat me with anything other than contempt. If you want my fucking money you greedy, self-absorbed whelp of a human being, you have to at least pretend to be nice. So no - I didn't fucking tip you because I was not grateful for the way you treated me, you sorry excuse for a fucking bartender. So when I moved upstairs with my friends because you suck my hairy ass, you - like the whiny bitch you are - ran upstairs to tell them not to serve us because we didn't tip. I hope you're ugly face is worth it to the Goodfoot, because you just lost the business 7 regulars who really, really like beer and art. Lets do the math...in an average night, I drink 5 or 6 beers. My friends drink much, much more being avid alcoholics. In any given week I will patron the Goodfoot 4 times. If we each drink on average 6 beers, that's 42 beers a night, 294 a week. At round'about 3 bucks a pop, your insolent behavior, based off of ONE night, lost the Goodfoot almost a thousand dollars a week in patronage. In sum: Rude service = customers not grateful, = no tip (if its REALLY bad service, which it was; otherwise its just a low tip). I will take my thousand-plus buckaroos and spend it at your competitors, thank you very much. What I think is funny is that the management and/or owners who endorse this behavior - did you go to business school, or are you just playing with daddy's credit card? because that is one BAD fucking business model, my friend.
Sincerely,
me, laughing when you go out of business
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I have been going the Goodfoot for years now, and the worst thing I can say about it is that every once in so often a crowd of douchebags and their counterpart girlfriends decend upon this place as if they're the first to have heard about this unique and colorful pub/lounge. Whenever I'm out around town I hear CK1 wearing tools say things like, "Yeah, we're going to the Goodfoot. It's supposed to be DOPE." Unfortunately this means the occassional Hair-Gel-and-High-Heels mass migration that crowds out the regulars, and creates a very surreal vibe in the joint. And for the record, no, you cannot get a gaddamn Mojito here. What you will find, however, is pleasant service, decent selection of whiskey, great local/touring music - though a bit heavy on the jam band sound-, cheap pool with house rules set up to create quick rotation, and the best neo-soul funk dance night in the whole of PDX (skip the first Friday, though, as it is often lame at best). Bonus: They support local art at the Goodfoot, which even if you hate you'll be intrigued by. Show 'em a sample of your work... they might display it! My favorite bar in the metro area by a landslide.
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I went for Open mic on a Monday $1 and there are some very talented musicians playing here. Good vibe and comfy atmosphere downstairs with many booths and its own bar. Upstairs the pool tables were plenty busy. I don't know if I'll try the food here but I'll return for the hip open mic scene.
upstairs if you want to chill and play pool, downstairs if youre in the mood for a live show. some local microbrews on tap, and delicious chicken strps. doesn't get any better than that.
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I would like to start with the person that is by the door..he was totally rude to my friends and I. The fries were burned and the full of oil. We went out dancing and then came back to our table and find out that our half way drinks were gone..bartenders will pick up the drinks...plus they were totally rude. They do have nice pool tables.. But it's too bad that their customer service skills were so poorly.. My friends and I are not coming back to your place ever again. I got to meet the manager too..he tried to ignore what's going on..it was a joke..
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Although the 'foot is my favorite bar, I have to ask where all the hot smokin' chicks have gone. A few of them used to wander in for a game of scotch doubles. Now, they've apparently been crowded out by chain-smokin' dudes whose knuckles are red from gripping the cue too tight, boaging in on the free pool. Why is this oral fixation so rampant in the beer counter culture? Oh, and we need some new CDs on the juke.
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And I mean the shit in the best way. It's one place where the neighborhood vibe is all good, the customers are laid back, staff are nice to you and very cool. You can play free pool all evening (till 9:00), eat cheaply and drink good beers. I've been there dozens of times and never had a bad experience. Don't look for the pretty shiny people, though - this is not where you go to snag!
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If you want space (lots of it), fantastic art on walls that changes periodically, free pool, free jukebox music, low lit lighting, comfortable atmosphere, good Happy Hour, good prices, fun people watching, and all n' all have a super time....this is the place to be on Portland's Eastside. Reasonably good selction of grog (incl. organic micros). They even have a downstairs lounge that lines up some pretty good 'live' gigs. All in 1 building. It's "A Keeper"!
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THis place has the best vibe in all of portland, you can be a downtowner or a greshamite and feel comfortable at this joint. They also select really good beer from local brewers and the big folks. not to mention the friday nights that rock out with dj magneto and the breakdancer crew. lots a funk and hiphop
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best live music venue in p-town . when i'm not coaching football ... i'm at the goodfoot rockin' out & dancin' in my sandals ! This a great/affordable place to have a friend buy beers . get your groove on at the goodfoot .
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