A certain new bar that I love realllly needs a female employee who could go into the ladies' bathroom once a night and tidy up (at the very least get the vomit out of the sink)....

I'm okay with banning smoking from patios because patios have become fairly unbearable since smoking was banned indoors. The point of having a drink on a patio is getting some fresh air and enjoying the 15 minutes we get of warm air per year.

I don't know if the person in your comment section was correct about keeping bands from having a drink between sets, but if so that is the silliest thing I have ever heard....

Oh, and ps. I would make a law that sports bars have to have a satellite feed!

That is true. I have a copy of the official regulations: "Band Guidelines: No licensee shall allow any entertainers or band staff to consume or to show any effect of liquor while performing on the licensed premises"

most remarkable in portland's bar scene is the want of a sports bar with good LoS(line of sight). I've been to many intown bars. TVs are too small or too high or obscurred by a post, etc. Even the Stadium is a bad place to watch a game!

yamo I totally agree! I can't imagine a bar w/ more tvs where it is actually hard to watch a single game. Tried watching NCAAs at the stadium and it was a total bust. The only bar I know where they get the tvs right is Dock Fore...and the lack of food there forces me to venture elsewhere from time to time.

I say it all the time, but I miss Portland St. Bingas.

Definitely gonna have hookahs. You heard it here first. Blue Moon on tap, year round sangria and the magical "cakerocket cocktail" are all also on the table but the hookahs are a definite (and they bypass indoor smoking laws) Huzzah.

"Presentation: Time to say goodbye to beer buckets. The ice melts too fast, and along with it the savings. No buckets of anything unless it's buffalo wings."

Agreed. Beer buckets are also dirty. In NYC they're illegal, I believe, due to health code.

Stackhouse in Westbrook has great food and is a great place to watch your favorite team (as long as it is a New England Team) Great vantage points from almost any table or bar.

My bar would be modeled after this one except there would be heat in the bathroom (not air conditioning) and a place to listen to music and of course a little closer to downtown portland

See, here all this time I just thought it was me and my group of friends who saw holes in the Sports Bar landscape in Portland. Interesting.

Oh, and my bar would overload on college sports on TV. Never enough of that.

My bar would have nothing but HGTV on it! The waiters would be scantily clad men with nail aprons!

There was this one hookah bar in Evanston, Illinois that was right near the Northwestern University campus. There, a confused mishmash of student cultures hung out with the bros/"yeahdudes" on one side (little Burlington) and as my friend James describes, "culture-stealing wanna-be nouveau hippies" on the other. That place was hilarious.