Here’s one of the great things about Portland: We just can’t help but mix the things we love. There’s blues music mixed with beer (the Waterfront Blues Festival). There’s golf mixed with, well, beer (the nine-hole course at McMenamins Edgefield). There’s caber tossing mixed with … beer (the Portland Highland Games). And there’s even movies mixed with, you got it, beer. We’re truly a civilized city.

So if you’re looking for a Portland restaurant not too far from Hotel deLuxe or other Portland hotels, try a quick ride to one of the city’s great theater pubs:

Academy Theater

Bagdad Theater

Mission Theater

St. Johns Theater & Pub

Kennedy School

Laurelhurst Theater

And as Portland restaurants go, they’re inexpensive and good, offering, depending on the theater, everything from pizza to pesto chicken calzones.

Cheers!

Lance