Karaoke Bars in Portland
4th Down Bar & Grill
Sports bar (duh) in downtown.
52nd Avenue Sports Bar
Specifically: Friday / Saturday
Hard to find little hole in the wall sports bar, windows frosted to look like a PeeChee folder.
Alibi
Specifically: Every Night / 9:00pm
Famed Portland tiki bar brimming with dark volcanic islandy charm. Located on the Max yellow line.
Ambassador
Specifically: Every Night
A popular, quintessential Chinese Restaurant/Karaoke lounge, spruced up over the years.
Atlantis Lounge (Mississippi Pizza)
Specifically: Baby Ketten / Tuesday / 9pm
Oddly eclectic event boasting lounge attached to Mississippi Pizza Pub.
Barrel Room Rockin' Show Bar
Specifically: Thursday / With Live Band
Dueling piano bar in the heart of the amateur nightclub zone.
Bear Paw Inn
Specifically: Friday / Saturday
Portland's home for the hopeless, this little SE dive is a bizarre ride to bottom.
Blackwell's Grubsteak Grill
Cash only dive in the Hollywood district.
Boiler Room
Specifically: Every Night
Karaoke bar in the heart of the of the Old Town's amateur zone.
Boxxes Video Bar
Dancing, videos, boys.
Buffalo Gap
Specifically: Tuesday
Multi-roomed saloon with free live music most nights.
Candlelight Restaurant & Lounge
Specifically: Friday / Saturday
Montavilla dive with cheap, stiff pours and a reputation for being just that (Not to be confused with the Candlelight downtown)
CC Slaughter's
On a scale of 1-10, 1 being there may be some gays holding hands here, and 10 being you will definitely see naked gay boys, this is an 11.
Cheerful Tortoise
Specifically: Friday / Saturday / 9pm
Right next to PSU, this would be downtown's Animal House, if, say, there were actually a university in Portland that had said fraternities.
Cheers Northwest
Formerly known as an "Old man's bar," Cheers is now apparently marketing itself as a gastro pub.
Chopsticks Express
Portland's most beloved karaoke bar for the not so serious would be crooner.
Chopsticks III: The How Can Be Lounge
Out of the way karaoke bar with no crowds
Cider Mill Lounge
Specifically: Monday / Wednesday
Sports bar with live music and trivia, featuring the area's last Fryer Tuck's chicken.
Cleary's Sports Bar
Specifically: Saturdays / 8pm / Sterling Karaoke
Sports bar in Gresham.
Club Hollywood Sports Bar
Specifically: Saturday / Sunday
The bar adjoining Hollywood Bowl.
Clubhouse Bar & Grill
Specifically: Thursday / Friday / Saturday / 9pm
Pretty typical sports bar in the 'burbs with a little something for everyone.
Copper Rooster
Specifically: Wednesday / Saturday
East Burnside dive not really near anywhere else.
Da Hui
Specifically: Thursday
Charming neighborhood bar serving up Hawaiian styled food.
Dante's
Specifically: Monday / Karaoke From Hell
Classic Portland Bar.
Devil's Point
Specifically: Sunday / Stripperaoke
South East Strip Bar for Everyone
Domenic's Bar & Grill
Specifically: Wednesday / Thursday
Enormous sports bar in Milwaukie with pretty much everything sports related you could ask for, plus Karaoke and Live Music!
Duke's Country Bar & Grill
Specifically: Mondays Mondays 9pm
Country bar complete with a mechanical bull brought to you by CEG.
Elk Rock Bar & Grill
Specifically: Friday / Saturday Saturday 9pm
By the looks of their website, We'd probably avoid this bar.
Embers
Specifically: Sunday
Queer-ish Dance Club
Falco's Pub
Specifically: Thursday / Friday / Saturday
Pudding shots!
Farmer's Barn
Specifically: Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday Saturday 8pm
Galaxy
Specifically: Every Night
Beloved karaoke dive, rumor has it that it may soon be demolished to make way for something terrible.
Gemini Pub
Great Lake O Dive.
Glimmers
Strip club on Powell with 2 stages
Goose Hollow Inn
Nice neighborhood joint known for its Reuben and that Bud Clark's family still owns and operates it.
Gossip Lounge
Upscale sports bar bathed in blue light.
Grand Cafe
Specifically: Every Night
Popular karaoke bar attached to a Latin dance club.
Greek Village Tavern
More of a bar than a Greek restaurant.
Gypsy
Specifically: Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday / 9pm
Another Concept Entertainment Group creation, this time on NW 21st, featuring fish bowl cocktails.
Hamburger Mary's
Specifically: Monday / Thursday / 9pm
Portland drag institution
Havana West
Specifically: De-Aan's Killer Karaoke / Wednesday / 9pm / Thursday / 9pm
The new name for Hal's Tavern.
Neighborhood bar known for it's awesome shuffleboard table, Cuban food, and cheaper drinks.
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
Specifically: Monday
The drinking side of Hawthorne Theatre, where all ages shows will not affect your sobriety.
Hi Hat Lounge
Chinese restaurant and lounge now under new ownership.
Hungry Tiger Too
Hipsters and old men unite at this two room bar with both meat and vegan friendly menus.
Hutch on Holgate
Specifically: 9:30pm / Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sean Bailey
Rustic sister bar of the Hutch Tavern, with a fanstatic mineshaft/cabin style basement.
Irish Town
Irish bar in a strip mall in Vancouver that also serves Asian food?
Jack London Bar
Specifically: First Thursdays
The Rialto's dark swanky basement lounge.
Ladd's Inn
Neighborhood dive with dark, low slung sunken bar, gruff service, and surprisingly friendly regulars.
Mazatlan
Specifically: Thursday / 8:30pm
Completely ordinary Mexican restaurant/bar with no real discerning qualities, other than the clientele's perplexed stares at Ella St. Social Club patrons across the st.
McFadden's
In the heart of the Jagerbomb district, the 20something suburban throngs descend to shake to a surprisingly decent DJs.
Montavilla Station
Perhaps too divey even for the skater/rocker crowd at Roscoe's, Montavilla Station's respiteful down-market confines serve its purpose with unintentional perfection.
Mousetrap Tavern
Cash only North Portland dive. You have been warned.
Mudai Lounge
Specifically: Wednesday
The marriage of Ethiopian restaurants and hipster/rocker hangouts is becoming a common theme in Portland, Mudai is no exception.
Papa-Son's Bar
Specifically: Saturday
The slow muttering daytime geriatrics transitions into the mile-a-minute prattling of the night time tweakers, and somewhere your brain explodes, gray matter found in the Airstream smoking trailer.
Penguin Pub & Eatery
Specifically: Thursday / Friday / Saturday / 8pm
Historic little antarctic themed joined is about the best thing the far reaches of Sellwood has going for it.
Perch Tavern
Specifically: Thursday / Friday / Saturday
Surreal, woodsy, owl themed joint, with off-kilter regulars, and staff to boot, ergo, a must on any St. Johns crawl.
Pink Feather Restaurant & Lounge
Specifically: Friday / Saturday
If kitsch had volume, this one is turned up to 11. Family restaurant style dive serves up some of the stiffer drinks east of 82nd.
Ponderosa Lounge
Specifically: Tuesday
Huge truckstop honky-tonk, offers free dance lessons, all things C&W.
Prime Time Bar & Grill
Specifically: Tuesday Tuesday 9pm
They have a punching bag?
Pub 181
Specifically: Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday Thursday 9pm
Under new ownership. We'll have to check it out.
Railside Pub
Specifically: Saturday
Out of the Way Rock Bar
Red Cap Garage
Specifically: Thurday / 10pm
Mainstay of the "Vaseline Alley," with loads of cheap offerings and debauchery.
Red's Bar & Grill
Cozy neighborhood joint that serves breakfast on the weekends. Bloody Mary bar!
Refectory
Huge restaurant and bar with attached ballroom on the edge of Gresham where you never know what type of entertainment you'll encounter.
Rialto Poolroom Bar & Cafe
Sister bar of downtown's Rialto
Rumpus Room
Specifically: Friday / Saturday
Older regular crowd and loads of video crack.
Saratoga
Rock and roll club with DJ nights, Karaoke, and special events including "Bearaccuda Night." Photo booth included.
Scandals
Specifically: Tuesday
Since 1979 Scandals is one of Portland oldest continuously gay owned and operated bars in Portland.
Scoreboard Tavern
Divey sports bar on SE Division.
Spare Room
Specifically: Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / 9pm
Huge bar with many cheap specials throughout the day and a wide variety of entertainment at night including bingo, karaoke, movies and live music.
Spirits
Specifically: Saturday / 9pm
Super friendly neighborhood dive, and quite possibly the cheapest drinks in town.
Sports Page
Typical sports bar with karaoke owned by the people who brought us Jolly Roger.
Studio 503
Specifically: Sunday
Miami-Style Latin Dance Club & Sports Bar.
Suki's Bar & Grill
Specifically: Wednesday / Saturday / 9pm
Fantastic dive below a Travelodge, just across the 405 from PSU.
Tartan and Thistle
Scottish themed bar in Milwaukie with a Queer night on Wednesdays.
The Decoy
Specifically: Friday / 8pm
Divey neighborhood bar just outside of Portland that serves chinese food, but isn't an Asian lounge.
The Farmhouse
Specifically: Every Night 9pm
Large bar and restaurant on 82nd open 24 hours with Karaoke at 9pm daily.
The Know
Cheap small bar on Alberta that's full of hipsters and loud music.
The Lovecraft
Specifically: Sunday
As evidenced by it's name, the Lovecraft is a horror themed bar. It's also a tea shop by day?
The QuarterDeck
Specifically: Thursday / Friday / Saturday
Dancing, sports and karaoke in the 'Couv.
The Woods
Specifically: Baby Ketten / 4th Thursday Of The Month
Rambling funeral home turned hipsterized, folksy performance venue.
Tiger Bar
Specifically: Karoake From Hell Karoake From Hell Thursdays
Self proclaimed rock and roll bar on the fringe of the Pearl
Trap
Lower Foster Karaoke and Darts Paradise
Twilight Room
Specifically: Wednesday / Saturday
Neighborhood bar that's popular with the U of Portland crowd.
Utopia Lounge
Dive bar within a Vietnamese restaurant.
Voicebox
Specifically: Private Rooms / Nightly
Private booth karaoke parlor, beer/wine/sake only.
Wishing Well
Cheap Drinks and Eats
Yen Ha
Specifically: Thursday / Friday / Saturday
Super Vietnamese dive, scattered array of regulars from scenesters to con artists to weathered boozers.
