Low Brow Lounge

11/02/07

Always my last stop

by tlesh

Drinks are expensive for a "dive bar" but us girls always love to go after we are already wasted.

Mini corn dogs french fries and a bucket of ranch. my mouth is watering just thinking about it. Dont stay for too long or you may get lung cancer. Love the decor as well.

• Pros: Cheap food and cool atmosphere
• Cons: smokey but what dive isnt?

08/03/07

No more....

by theoriginalscotty

Third strike?. You are out!

So, I can remember the day when the Low Brow Lounge was ?Keeping the Pearl Real?, after tonight I have had it. No kidding, over the past month (3 times) I have been treated not so good (I guees the word I am looking for is poo) there and will never go back. So, I know I have some obnoxious friends, but after a evening where most of us have been greeting a crowd in a non drinking environment (first Thursday), we (being 6 peep?s) where yelled at by a female owner for questioning if something (of all things food) had actually been delivered/charged to us. I feel bad for the servers because it was obviously under staffed. My question is why take it off on patrons that have supported your business since the time you broke away from the ?brothers??

At first my friends where harassed by her, but when I tried to pull her aside and ask her then explain the issue at hand, she at first said that some of us could stay but then changed her mind mid sentence and proceeded to kick the rest of us out.

So, I guess if you question your bill, you are automatically kicked out of the Brow.

Again I must stress that the staff at the ?Brow? was nothing but courteous, but this lady was a total?.ya, I will leave that up to you. Warning? question your bill and you will get kicked out of the Low Brow!

Wow? I have been in pdx for 11 years and have never been treated the way I was treated tonight. I actually felt like I was in the Pearl and not Portland. In all honesty I hope that something changes and you (yes, you Low Brow) become what you used to be.

I calling you out Low Brow Lounge! If Its one of those things where you would like to cater to those people in the pearl then please let the rest of us know? I am sure that there is a bar on the other side of 405 that would appreciate the business?.

Let Portland know? are you really catering to us, or just you rich neighbors?

• Pros: The service
• Cons: The crazy owner lady

03/12/07

Psycho owner

by mereditamere

Don't stand outside for a cab or the owner will yell at you. Not kidding! Apparently more concerned with the loft purchasers across the street than his own patrons. We moved down the block and he yelled again?! Who does that? To a handful of 30 something females-- cause we were so out of hand? Hardly. It was odd and scary.

• Pros: Cheap drinks
• Cons: The atmosphere and staff

01/13/07

the truth

by sansebastian

the bar is solid, as is the fare. the crowd is fine as well. the smoke, well welcome to a dive bar people, that's how it works. but the attitude from the bar staff is what kills this place and if you don't notice the angry outbursts over . . . who knows, then you're either too loaded or just oblivious. the staff at the bar are class A Norris Division fcuk sticks. don't try to argue and don't over tip- why the hell would you? besides that, have a great time and enjoy the High Life in a bottle!

12/13/06

Stylish Dive Done Right

by mammawong

Casual in a non casual area. Drinks were good enough for me. Tatertots tasty and cheap. I'll be back. Nuff said.

• Pros: fry-tastic bar food. good drinks. no stress atmosphere
• Cons: lung cancer

11/12/06

Bonified Attempt to be Trendily Non-Trendy? Expensive Drinks Limited Selection

by kingjosh

I've never actually seen a place try so hard to appear to be somewhere it's not. Lot's of people wearing $100 t-shirts attempting to look "low brow". I came here expecting cheap drinks and I was wrong, $14.50 for two drinks is pretty steep when I can get the same two drinks down the road at a trendy pearl bar for $9.00. Worse yet, the place was full of smoke and my friend lit up a clove cigarette. He was told to put it out! Apparently they're not allowed in there, but there was no sign stating this. We went to the corner, finished our drinks and headed out to one of those trendy "high brow" bars with lower prices and less pretentious people.

• Pros: Different From the Other Bars
• Cons: Pricey Drinks, Fake Scene, Very Trendy

10/29/06

Best Dive Bar

by jessicahair

What can you say about the low brow but ultimate dive bar! It's full of people, beer, fried food and smoke. These are the reasons we love it! The staff is great and the pups and tots are the best in town. If you love a good dive bar you will fall in love with the Low Brow!!!!

Dark and funky, this lounge successfully counteracts the Pearl District's high-brow tendencies.

by Contributor

In Short
The sign by the door reads: "Black Russians? Yes. Black turtlenecks? No." A glass brick wall turns out to be made entirely of Jagermeister bottles. Young partiers kick back, surrounded by funky thrift store lights, black walls and lovingly mounted vintage beer signs. A full bar and a good selection of beers--on tap and in bottles--attracts service-industry employees who need a break from the chichi restaurants where they spend their working hours.

07/17/05

Old Dive becomes New Dive. I miss the Old Dive.

by dave999dave

07/17/05 - The Low Brow Lounge used to be an unassuming cheap place to have some beers and hot dogs. A nice little dive with no attitude. Everyone welcome as long as they can pay. Now that the Pearl is gentrifying it's become somewhat pretentious in its attempts to remain divey. It's developed a snobby attitude about how it's a working class bar. Oddly enough it seems to be changing into the kind of place it proclaims it isn't. I still like it and it's still relatively cheap, but just wonder where it's going. _______________ _________________________ ________________________ ___________________01/06/08 - Returned there a month ago and found that's it even more trendily non-trendy. If you really want a bar with no pretensions instead of this self-loving pit, try The Life of Riley a few blocks away. For what you're paying the food is 1,000 times better. And the service is actually happy to see you.

06/24/05

User review by julie_anderson

by julie_anderson

LB is a great place to go afterwork for a drink and just chill. I highly recommend their chicken quesedillas!!