Portland's listings are unusually uniform at the top and unusually good underneath. About 240 of them are a flat dollar off and nothing more, and 4 PM is the start on more than half the windows in the city. over 600 bars carry listings, and the prices that actually separate one place from another sit below that default: $3.75 doubles at Blue Moon Tavern on NW 21st Avenue, $3 Busch Lite drafts at Take Two on NE Killingsworth Street, $5 wine flights at Portland Wine Bar on SW Yamhill Street, a $12 half dozen at Dan & Louis Oyster Bar on SW Ankeny Street.
Prices, hours and bar names below come straight from Happy Hour Map's Portland, Oregon listings — Portland, Maine addresses are excluded from the count. Windows move, so confirm before you go.
No one street runs this city. The downtown southwest grid holds the largest single block — about 44 listings across Broadway, Alder, Washington, Stark and the numbered avenues, Kells Irish Pub, Kelly's Olympian, Huber's Cafe and Teardrop Cocktail Lounge among them — and the Pearl adds roughly 40 more on NW 11th through 13th and the Everett, Glisan and Hoyt cross streets. East of the river it breaks into corridors: 23 on NE Sandy Boulevard, 21 on SE Hawthorne Boulevard around Gold Dust Meridian, Space Room Lounge and the Sapphire Hotel, 19 on SE Division Street, and 13 or 14 each on SE Belmont and SE Stark, where Horse Brass Pub and Belmont Station sit a few blocks apart. North Portland keeps its own set — 16 on Killingsworth, 11 on N Mississippi Avenue around Prost! and Mississippi Pizza, 13 out N Lombard Street — and NW 21st and 23rd carry 23 between them.
Wells rarely carry their own number in Portland; most listings take a dollar or two off them rather than setting a price.
Beer is the deepest named category in the city at 106 listed deals, split between a flat dollar off any tap and a set price or a percentage on a brewery's own beer.
A small category with two dominant prices: 19 of the 23 listed margarita deals in Portland are the same $6 house pour, and a further 22 listings pair $7 margaritas with $5 beers.
Only nine Portland listings are wine-specific. The more common wine discount here is bundled with beer, or written as a dollar or two off glass pours.
22 of the 39 listed cocktail deals in Portland carry the same $10 signature price, and ten come in at $8 or less. These break the pattern:
The largest group in Portland, because the city's default listing takes a dollar off everything and names no drink at all. These do something else:
Portland is one of the few cities in our data that reliably runs a second, later window. About 50 bars list one on top of the afternoon block: all three Matador locations and the McMenamins pubs come back at 9 or 10 PM, and Chill N Fill and Lombard House both run 9 to 11 on N Lombard. A 9 PM arrival is a plan here, not a consolation. Weekends hold up better than in most cities too: one listing in four runs on a Saturday, a Sunday, or every day. Check what the discount covers before you go — a dollar off is the city default and usually means rail drinks and house taps, while the 16 listings that say house brews are breweries marking down their own beer, which is the better deal.
Second windows at 9 and 10 PM, dollar-off neighborhood taverns, breweries discounting their own taps, weekend afternoons that actually have deals, and walking a single east-side corridor end to end.
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