Slow Bar

533 SE Grand Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
503/ 230.7767

Located in: Southeast Portland - Visit Website
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BarFly's Review of Slow Bar

The old Caswell's, transformed by Vic's former tenders, this raucous, stylish party-people clubhouse has been bar of the moment for years now. Adjoining My Father's Place in the heart of industrial southeast but just moments from downtown, with serious bar cuisine and wine list as well-selected as the punk-fueled juke, a steady stream of Portland's most beautiful trickle through the narrow corridor ’tween stainless-steel bar and large custom booths made for hopping.

Happy Hours

  • Monday - $2.50 wells, $1 off beer, $2.50-$5.50 food 3-6pm
  • Tuesday - $2.50 wells, $1 off beer, $2.50-$5.50 food 3-6pm
  • Wednesday - $2.50 wells, $1 off beer, $2.50-$5.50 food 3-6pm
  • Thursday - $2.50 wells, $1 off beer, $2.50-$5.50 food 3-6pm
  • Friday - $2.50 wells, $1 off beer, $2.50-$5.50 food 3-6pm

Reader Reviews of Slow Bar
reviewers

Most of the "reviewers" here sound like 15-year-old kids from Gresham.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by TiffBarnswell on November 29, 2007, 9:36 pm
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Where the Vic's crowd meets
sr113

All of the old Vic's Willamette View crowd can be found here if you time it right. Stiff drinks, great food & a jukebox that has D.I.! What more could you ask for?

Reviewed Bravely & Awesomely by sr113 on April 21, 2007, 10:03 am
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The New Vic's Tavern
DJ Gravylegs

This place rocks thanks to Rob and Mikey's bar wisdom.They took what the late great Maston Simmons instilled in them at Vic's Tavern,and pimped it up couple notches w/ some swank,while maintaining it comfortably for all of us dirtbags.Super fuck yeah,gentleman!Oh....and AAron,K-Fed says hi.....

Reviewed Bravely & Awesomely by DJ Gravylegs on February 28, 2007, 12:56 pm
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yes it's alright

The drinks are strong, happy hours is great, nice feel, music is perfect. All the hype, well it's just got all the right things in porportion. Other than that not unusual or very intresting really. Great for after work though. Oh but next time please don't leave me dry for so long.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by dominoir on February 20, 2007, 2:56 pm
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str8 dudes?

How does a gay guy suck off straight dudes? They had a blast in a camry? I'm no expert, but that kinda sounds gay. This place rox! Great drinks, awesome food, friendly staff and parking lot suckoffs!

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by street pony on January 13, 2007, 1:23 pm
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I love skinhead boi's

This bar is great! I'm a gay guy and I like to go to str8 bars and pick up on str8 guys. I found a cute skinhead boy that went back to my toyota and let me pleasure him orally. We had a blast! I will definitly go back!!

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by jack on January 11, 2007, 5:51 pm
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satan thinks...

good tunes indeed...and yes you can get your sex on there for sure thanks to the private bedroom style booths...the rest is a secret....shhhh...

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by Some guy... on November 7, 2006, 6:33 pm
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sweet bar

Kick ass bar owned by the old bartender of VIC'S tavern. deff tattoed hipster bar. Also has a great juke box to. weel recamended that you chec kthi place out.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by the chad on June 19, 2006, 9:37 pm
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i like booze

but mostly i like the searededed (yes that's how i spell it) tuna salad. it makes me smiley. like smiley. except i don't say dog as much as him. i say tuna.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by drinkypants on June 4, 2006, 3:10 am
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The Spot

Slow bar is the shit, it's got great staff and a more portland feel to it, it doesn't feel like im walking into a singles bar or a northwest fag bar, the sort of place that makes you wanna drink and call all your friends out to have a round even on monday or tuesday.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by ATB on May 25, 2006, 5:37 pm
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love that place

slow bar! love that place!

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by matt crawford on May 10, 2006, 11:34 pm
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weak

Slow Bar has a week selection of liquor. They need to bring in some of the new brands that are out ther.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by Ross Holman on April 20, 2006, 9:41 am
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FoodFoodFood

The service is most always great, but it's too smoky to stay for long if you don't participate. The place looks pretty cool (dark and lots of exposed brick) and the food is always excellent. One of the 3 best burgers in town. The juke box is a little bit Motorhead for my tastes, but if that your style it's fully loaded.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by ponyponypony on April 17, 2006, 10:54 pm
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great place

I love the slow bar, it's intimate enough for a date, lively enough for a group of friends to have fun, excellent music choices in jukebox. It's decorated like it should be a pretentious, scenester bar but it is not. Owner and staff are friendly, attentive and I feel welcome and comfortable every single time.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by BC on March 24, 2006, 11:15 am
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yummy

As a decidedly not cool person, I have to say that I am always treated well there. Additionally, Slow Bar has the best burger in Portland and serves the best Manhattan. What is the "stiffness" rating for anyway?

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by chantelle gamba on February 17, 2006, 6:14 pm
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Best Happy Hour in Town!

This place has the best happy hour menu! You must have the salad. It is incredibly good. The pizza makes my mouth water. The staff, totally awesome. Atmosphere is terrific. Love the Slow Bar!

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by ozscubagirl on January 30, 2006, 1:39 am
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Slow bar is great

I don't see how anybody can complain about the Slow Bar. Not 'Vern enough for you pretentious jackasses? Bartenders are all cool. The place looks sweet. Beer is cold. Drinks are good. Food is good. Stop bitching and go there.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by A on January 21, 2006, 10:09 am
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Slow bar

Love these boys - the booths are cool but don't lead to social interaction. check the website:www.slowbar.net

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by Vampira on October 28, 2005, 11:46 pm
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Burgers

Great music, good beer, two plasma HD TV's and a bacon cheeseburger that will blow your mind.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by Chris on October 20, 2005, 5:50 pm
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tough yet sexy

Best bar food in portland and sexy tattood girls a plenty. Sexy bartenders too!

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by mick on September 3, 2005, 10:15 am
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Yo ho ho and a slap on the bum

YEEEE-HAAAAAA! Ride your momma on down to the liver-twistinest trough ever! This western-gone-New Jersey-honky-tonk themed bar's got more overly-rouged faced, fringed mini-skirt wearin bar-gals than you can shake yer stick at. Ain't yer game? Try out the mecha-bull located in the rest rooms for a undy-bunchin' scream (only a penny)! Drinks ain't half bad neither, no sir! From the strychnine snake-bite to the vermouth hammock, there's more than one way to wake up pregnant tomorrow after ya danced a while at this here place! Speakin' of dancin' I'ma gunna do it all over ya grandmamma's grave! YEEEE-HAAAAAA!

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by Slim Pickins on July 15, 2005, 3:27 pm
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burger yum

k-before i thought ick and now i say YES! i'm a fan. i frequent here on my way home from work and eat the burg. YUM! i believe they also are a sponsor of The Famous Mysterious Actor. Does this still ring true? If so, it’s quite the hot spot during/after the show.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by J on June 23, 2005, 8:25 am
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slowbar

Slow Bar is awesome. They have everything from Slayer to Blondie in the jukebox, Guinness and PBR on tap, and it's a nice, clean facility. Good Stuff.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by brooks on January 28, 2005, 2:50 pm
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mutiny

Dont listen to Captain Marlowe, he gets salty every time we come to port. Now we share an RV that we have dug into some clay soil by an abandoned mine in Drain, Oregon, where we make methamphetamines in the bathtub. Captain Marlowe has been talking all about Slow Bar this week because of the fumes, wearing nothing but a linen curtain and singing melancholic Edith Piaf songs in an off-key falsetto. He is sleeping now.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by Edwin on January 13, 2005, 9:40 pm
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Rogue City

loud and obnoxious, yet stark and sterile, lacking warmth in ambience. More tired-looking 30 year old kids with tattoos on their necks. Very postmodern in a sense that it fails to faciliate socialization, but isolates everyone there. Good food, relatively friendly staff, good drink menu. "Rock" of yesteryear. Altogether fragmented at best. Just goes to show how Portland loves to drink, but still cant have one perfect drinking hole. Boycott the dives,leave the clubs for the manequins and be sure to bathe properly after visiting any hippie hangout on Hawthorne. Yawn.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by Captain Marlowe on January 13, 2005, 9:01 pm
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ick

sounds gay.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by J on December 24, 2004, 9:28 am
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slow review

this is by far the coolest bar in p-town. the juke box kills it. the bar tenders rock and the space is very hip. chicks in designer jeans and dudes with tatoos. hot.

Reviewed Safely & Anonymously (pussy) by hot carl on December 23, 2004, 11:09 pm
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