The Best Restaurants in Portland’s Arbor Lodge Neighborhood | Eater Portland

"Arbor Lodge is blessed with several divey neighborhood watering holes — including Barlow Tavern and Mousetrap Tavern — each with their own merits, but the intimate Sweet Home Bar & Grill is perhaps the most pure dive of them all, best measured by pre-noon weekday patrons and occupancy rates on video poker machines . The food is greasy bar fare but prepared as if the kitchen wants to make sure its regulars keep coming back. Drinks are generously poured with most cocktails well under $10, increasingly rare in Portland. Join the rowdy karaoke nights every Friday and Saturday, or elbow up to a shark or two on Tuesday pool nights at the cerulean blue felt pool table." - Nathan Williams