Best Happy Hours in Portland

In Portland the happy hour listing frequently advertises something other than a price. Oakshire Beer Hall on NE 42nd Avenue lists $5 beers and tarot readings on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Turn! Turn! Turn! on NE Killingsworth Street puts a free comedy open mic inside its Friday 5-to-7 window. Laurelthirst on NE Glisan Street lists free happy hour shows Monday and Tuesday from 6 to 8. The drink price is frequently not the whole offer.

Listings here follow neighborhood arterials rather than a downtown core, and NE Sandy Boulevard, SE Hawthorne Boulevard, SE Division Street, NW 21st Avenue and SE Belmont Street carry the most between them. Beer and cider set the pricing: Schilling Cider House on SE Division lists $5 draft ciders, Mississippi Pizza on N Mississippi Avenue takes 50 cents off pints, and The Muddy Rudder in Sellwood lists $5 for all pints. The downtown outlier is Beer O'Clock on SW Washington Street, where the entire selection is listed at $3 a glass from 3 to 10 Monday through Thursday.

One pattern is worth building a Monday around: full-day deals that ignore the window entirely. Dan & Louis Oyster Bar on SW Ankeny Street lists a $12 half dozen all day Monday, and The Garden Tavern on N Williams Avenue lists $2 off beer and cider the same way. Otherwise 4 PM dominates, opening more than half the listed windows in the city, and about one in six covers a weekend day.