Momo Bar Maximo

725 SW 10th Ave Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 478.9600
Located in: Downtown Portland
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BarFly's Review of Momo Bar Maximo

Overpriced drinks, garish crimson interiors, crowds ranging between (weekends) scattered pockets of proto suburbanites and (weeknights) the bartender and her paramour watching The Parkers at top volume - Momo’s doesn’t exactly invite adventuring. For the desperate boozehound leaving the library or theater, though, there’s not so many options for a cocktail this bleak stretch of midtown, and it’s easy enough to find yourself giving the bar a try. Maybe, avoiding the E-dates grimacing through appetizers and C-list fratboys misplaying pool, you bring your drink through the unadorned back door.

As children would pass through, say, a wardrobe. A wondrous, jarring, thoroughly misplaced grotto remains from the former tea house, and Momo’s wisely, amazing given the surrounding misdesign, simply left things alone beyond a few strands of Christmas lights less tacky than rakish given the context - Easter Island lounge as abandoned evidence of a once great culture utterly ignored by the natives currently in residence.

$2 beers, $3 micros, $ wells 3-8pm daily.
Oly stubbies $1.50 all the time!
Sundays: S.I.N. $2 well and $2.50 beers w/OLCC.
Saturdays: DJ Wicked. Mondays: DJ Mello Cee.

1x pool, 1x pinball, 1x television, and one kick ass smoking patio.

Momo Bar Maximo's Happy Hours
Monday$2 beers, $3 micros, $ wells 3-8pm
Tuesday$2 beers, $3 micros, $ wells 3-8pm
Wednesday$2 beers, $3 micros, $ wells 3-8pm
Thursday$2 beers, $3 micros, $ wells 3-8pm
Friday$2 beers, $3 micros, $ wells 3-8pm
Saturday$2 beers, $3 micros, $ wells 3-8pm
Sunday$2 beers, $3 micros, $ wells 3-8pm
Reader Reviews of Momo Bar Maximo
OK

The editor's review is harsh but not unfair at least regarding the crowd and surroundings. My drink however was pretty decent... a booth of drunken idiots were singing along (badly) to unfortunately jukebox selections which I found somewhat entertaining (but the btender did not)...

There isn't much around this part of dtown, except for river city saloon(?) which I avoid...

Reviewed By BarFly User beav on November 26, 2007, 2:09 pm
Nice Happy Hour

I went here for my first and second time ever last week for happy hour. I wanted to try some place new and had passed by this place a hundred times leaving the library. Their happy hour drink specials are great with a strong poor and a small but nice little selection of micros. No food deals, but the chicken strips are more like chicken slabs. The outdoor seating in back really is awesome! I had six friends join me, and everyone enjoyed it. I'm waiting to see if they keep the grotto open/warm as the weather turns...

Reviewed By BarFly User Baltar666 on September 24, 2007, 8:51 am
Not bad

$20 minimum on cards there, which is kind of steep.

Reviewed Anonymously by Cheri on January 26, 2007, 7:54 pm
Great service, drinks, dj's, and atmosphere!

Best bar in the city. Believe that!

Reviewed Anonymously by Pub hound on March 7, 2006, 6:13 pm
kinda fan?

4 bux for a stiff ass drink. the best i can describe the atmosphere is that it's the dive bar for shirt guys. they were all over, including some dude proud of a dolce and gabbana jacket made out of baby seal. i only stayed because of the stiffness. 2 drinks and ya gotta go.

Reviewed Anonymously by j. on November 12, 2005, 9:58 am
Best bar in Portland

Great dj's. Great drink specials. Friendly staff. Nice patio courtyard. My favorite bar in the city!

Reviewed Anonymously by Sally on September 27, 2005, 2:47 pm
Momo's Bar

Drinks are cheap. Outdoor seating is cool in the summer.

Reviewed Anonymously by Chintzy in PDX on September 6, 2005, 2:13 pm
Dump

The DJs think they're cool. The bartenders can't make drinks for shit. And the customers leave little to be desired. This place is a fuggin dump. Avoid.

Reviewed Anonymously by Scoobs on August 12, 2005, 4:31 pm
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