The Old Portland Wine Bar

"This is the coolest wine bar in the world," the Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor-Taylor told us while sitting in his own Slabtown wine bar, the Old Portland. We can't speak for the world, but as Portland bars go this year, we agree. At the Old Portland, Taylor-Taylor, who has never lacked for aesthetic certainty, has created a living critique of overly sterile modernist design and of cramped New Portland. Carved out of the corner of the Dandys' massive Slabtown clubhouse called the Odditorium, the bar is filled with pieces from shuttered drinking spots, including tables from the Lotus Cardroom and the much-missed Wildwood. " -Willamette Weekly