Eat and Drink Nearby
All of these restaurants are walking distance or a short drive from Rev Hall.
Hawthorne Street Asylum 🌶️
1080 SE Madison St, Portland, OR 97214 (13 min walk)
the food cart pod that has it all. MASSIVE heated patios, a brand new bar, clean restrooms, and food to satisfy any craving and dietary requirement. It also has great sculptures and beautiful graffiti art, and a new foodcart truck made from an actual airplane.
Casa Vale 🌶️:
215 SE 9th Ave Suite 109, Portland, OR 97214 (9 min walk)
A cozy, wood-fired, Spanish-inspired restaurant, primarily tapas. There is a mostly enclosed, heated patio. It shares a building with Scotch Lodge, a whiskey lounge (with a decent amount of non-alcoholic options), and Paper Bridge, a Vietnamese Restaurant with a cozy, festive and soothing atmosphere.
Worker’s Tap 🌈
101 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97214 (8 min walk)
A union, workers’-rights-themed cafe and bar, owned by its workers. Located in a converted Victorian-style home, the bar is downstairs and upstairs has board game rooms, and a library with books on mutual aid and historical BIPOC, queer and revolutionary figures. Food is available from a soul food restaurant they partner and share a patio with. Every Friday night is a trans and nonbinary social night at 8pm. Saturday night there is a union happy hour.
Nong’s Khao Man Gai
609 SE Ankeny St C, Portland, OR 97214 (13 min walk)
A long-standing foodcart that became too popular and they had to open their own restaurant. “Khao Man Gai means Chicken & Rice. It’s flavorful and well-balanced, served with Nong’s signature sauce and a side of soup.” Nong’s focuses on one main dish, but there are vegan options too. Buy some sauce to take home!
Afuri
923 SE 7th Ave, Portland, OR 97214 (13 min walk)
One of Portland’s most popular ramen spots, with a focus on sustainability. Because it’s so popular, you may want to call ahead or reserve ahead of time.
The Screen Door
2337 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214 (11 min walk)
Another restaurant that’s been on the top of “must try when you visit Portland” lists for 2 decades, with large-portion comforting Southern style menu and desserts. This place is also very popular so you may want to call ahead of time.
Le Pigeon & Canard
738 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214 (12 min walk)
High end French restaurants that are paired together, also known for their wines and cocktails. It’s also recommended to have a reservation. Right next to Rontoms.
Rontom’s 🌶️
600 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214 (12 min walk)
An old converted warehouse style bar with large open space with high ceilings and lots of places to lounge. It has a large heated patio with a ping pong table, and a large menu of craft cocktails and mocktails and comfort foods.
Hey Love 🌈
920 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214 (11 min walk)
“Your bar / restaurant / plant paradise / neighborhood escape inside the Jupiter NEXT Hotel.” Chill and relaxing vibes, but also with events like the Dolly Parton Birthday Bash and regular “Femmes & Thems” happy hours and day parties with R\&B and jazz DJs.
Voodoo Donuts
1501 NE Davis St, Portland, OR 97232 (10 min walk)
At the top of the lists of what to do when you visit Portland for decades. They still make the classics - the weird, the NSFW, and the tasty.
Nostrana 🌶️
1401 SE Morrison St #101, Portland, OR 97214 (3 min walk)
“local. Simple food from honest ingredients. Pure, regional, Italian.” The patio is usually open and heated but not always. You may need to call ahead. The food is so good, it’s one of the few places where one of our organizers cheats on their allergies.
Normandie
1005 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97214 (9 min walk)
“Normandie combines modern French inspiration with the bounties of the Pacific Coast. The menu focuses on small plates with big flavor. Expect a seafood heavy, flavor-forward food menu as well as an inventive cocktail program.”
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214 (11 min walk)(
A longstanding neighborhood landmark with lots of pub trivia, great deals on burgers and drinks and other events.
“Coziest all weather food cart pods”
Uniquely Portland Experiences
Unique Themed Restaurants, Bars & Clubs
Raven’s Manor
235 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR 97204 (7 min drive/13 min transit)
Portland’s Haunted Bar with bewitching, homemade craft cocktails, snacks and mocktails. Decor is classy yet spooky, with a terrifying attention to detail. You can also book an elixir-making experience in their “laboratory” - classes available before and throughout the PyCascades weekend.
Coffin Club
421 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214 (11 min walk)
Goth themed dance club, with a patio and vegan food truck. Most known for dance parties and goth music DJs and concerts. Feb 7th is their “Synth PNW Dark Elektro Music Fest”
Freeland Spirits 🌈
2671 NW Vaughn St, Portland, OR 97210
A women-owned bar and distillery, using ancient gin recipes and gin-aged bourbons. Although the atmosphere is very chill, there are often community fundraisers, drag shows, and other festive events.
Sports Bra 🌈
2512 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 97232
“A must-visit, if not for its amazing menu, for the fact that it’s the nation’s first sports bar to exclusively show women’s sports. Chef and owner Jenny Nguyen created a menu based on traditional sports bar fare with nods to her Vietnamese upbringing. Packed with vegan and gluten-free dining options, the drinks menu is equally inclusive, with great zero-proof drinks.
Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Most bars in Portland (especially inner SE and NE) offer mocktails that are of equivalent quality to their alcoholic cocktails, but there are also several that specialize in non-alcoholic cocktails.
List of the best rated mocktails in town
Many bars like Sousól are founded by sober owners and have a zero-proof focus. A comprehensive list here.
In-Town Activities
Self-Guided
PDX SideWalk Joy Tour
All over Portland
This also includes Tiny Library Tour, which includes libraries where you can trade seeds, mugs, dinosaurs, and more!). You can also use the Tiny Library World Map.
Geocaching:
All over Portland.
Portland has a lot of very specific, educational, funny and punny geograches.
Shopping/Art, Neighborhood Centers
There are also a selection of cute shops and cafes up the street form Rontoms, Le Pigeon and the others on Burnside (10 min walk), such as Oko vintage jewelry, Dark Star Magick Shop, Coy and Co 🌈 plastic-free floral, and Day Goods home furnishings.
Short Drive outside Town
McMenamin’s Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale, OR 97060 (25 min drive - near SugarPine)
Massive space with 9 restaurants/bars, movie theater, concert venue, a small and not-stuffy golf course, and one of our favorite large, heated, tropical soaking pools that has its own bar, spa and teahouse.
Sugarpine Drive In
1208 E Historic Columbia River Hwy, Troutdale, OR 97060 (25 min drive)
Adorable 50s style drive in diner on the Sandy river. If you’re up for an adventure, you can hike down to the river and walk along the beach or along nearby trails.