Valentine's

232 SW Ankeny St. Portland, OR 97204
Phone: (503) 438.1600

Located in: Downtown Portland
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BarFly's Review of Valentine's

Valentine’s does not advertise. The lightly stained plywood furniture in the Old Town bar’s front room speaks more to design than any apparent convenience, the often-oversized art on the wall remains tastefully mute, and ordering from the unencouraged food menu makes you part of an in-house joke. In the tiny Ankeny alleyway between Berbati’s and the Oyster Bar the sign for Valentine’s is pointedly hard to find, as is the bar.

On occasional Sundays there are secret upscale dinners, served by two of the bartenders to appreciative regulars. On Mondays and Tuesdays there is music, but it only sometimes makes its way into the papers. Upstairs—up stairs that are mostly obscure—the chairs are mismatched. Almost everyone is a regular, if they are there at all; the bar’s patrons and tenders are a mirroring reassurance to the clientele of mostly over-27 self-proclaimed artists and actual rockstars and ubiquitous hairdressers from the nearby salons.

What it remains is an obscure and almost unpublic comfort. It is more living room than bar, assuming one’s living room is full of infused whiskeys and obscure Greek or Turkish liquors: Valentine’s is where hipsters go when they are too tired to dance

Valentine's's Happy Hours
Monday$3 well, $3 draft, $4 wine 5-9pm
Tuesday$3 well, $3 draft, $4 wine 5-9pm
Wednesday$3 well, $3 draft, $4 wine 5-9pm
Thursday$3 well, $3 draft, $4 wine 5-9pm
Friday$3 well, $3 draft, $4 wine 5-9pm
Saturday$3 well, $3 draft, $4 wine 5-9pm
Sunday$3 well, $3 draft, $4 wine 5-9pm
Reader Reviews of Valentine's
Valentine's has 5 user reviews.
Re: Barf Lie

Ha. haha. it's a bar review, and barfly is awesome. Keep up the great reviews, and please please keep offending dickholes so they'll not drop by anymore.

Reviewed Anonymously by Cataclysm on May 2, 2010, 8:52 pm
RE: barf lie

You really need to pull that giant stick out of your ass. Hope every time you go out now you are seated next to a squalling baby. You'll be reaching for a coat hanger before long.

Reviewed By BarFly User Jinx on August 14, 2009, 3:55 pm
you suck

I think whoever wrote the review for Valentines should suck it. "Crotch fruit you should have aborted"-reaallly? You are a crotchfruit you fuck-and you should have been aborted. We are all crotchfruit my friends. I will not support barf lie in the future due to this ridiculous "review".

Reviewed Anonymously by barf lie on June 23, 2009, 11:53 pm
Valentine's = Rad

Hey guy-Don't worry about bean dip and stop being a dipshit. This place is off the hook! Stop comparing everything to San Fransisco... I'm sure the gay dudes are better there and they arf down rice-a-roni like it's going out...

Everytime I've been to Valentine's it's been pleasant as fuck. My Name is Brandon and I endorse this place.

Reviewed Anonymously by Street Pony on January 9, 2009, 11:27 am
shitty bean dips...

coke head hipsters .... smells like haruoka lovers perfume mixed with a little Aveeda.The exact places we avoided in SF....90s attire...lots of purple and maroon.

Reviewed Anonymously by h/dawg on January 7, 2009, 6:55 pm
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