PLS on Sixth

We stayed there for two nights. The staff is amazing, the room is very clean and pretty, we even rented bikes for free in the lobby (would definitely recommend as Portland is very bike-friendly). Everything is above average except for breakfast - there were only bagels and cereals basically, so on the second day, we had breakfast somewhere else. Luckily, the hotel is in the city center, so there are many great places for brunch nearby. Also, the parking is very expensive at the hotel - 40$ a day, but around the hotel there are many places where you can park almost for free.

Stopped in for happy hour. Okay for a hotel bar, but not great. Fairly small menu, and the Groovy Fries (happy hour) simply were not that groovy. Parking is tough too in this area of downtown. I will say that the bar service was really good though. Just not a great atmosphere.

We made reservations for seven on the Fourth of July, which turned out to be as necessary as an ashtray on a motorcycle. The place was nearly empty. That's not always a bad omen. Empty can mean peace. It can mean solitude. In this case, it mostly meant the staff had no excuse to be so slow. The place is pleasant enough. Fire pits flickered in the courtyard like the last stubborn lights of a dying universe. There were a few 80s and 90s arcade games humming their low-tech lullabies near the front. Everything was clean. I appreciate clean. Clean means someone still cares. I ordered the chicken sandwich. It had pepper-jack cheese from Tillamook, pickled onions that were trying their best, a spinach leaf or two doing a little backstroke in a sun-dried tomato aioli. The sourdough was toasted. The sandwich was perfectly sufficient. The fries were fine in the way that a polite Midwestern conversation is fine. One of our group has a basil allergy. She ordered the Love & Soul Burger with no basil aioli. It arrived with basil aioli. The server asked if the kitchen could just scrape it off. Scrape it off. As if allergens were emotional wounds or jelly from a kid's sandwich. A refire was requested. The server sighed like we'd just asked him to rewrite the Magna Carta. Speaking of our server. A man of limited patience and zero visible sense of humor. When someone in our group asked if the mushroom burger had mushrooms, he blinked like a fax machine receiving bad news. She was trying to determine if the patty itself was a mushroom or if there were simply mushrooms on the burger. We found the ludicrousness of the conversation hysterical. He was not interested in the nuance. Still, he did redeem himself in a small and human way. He suggested we walk a few blocks to see the fireworks from the Hawthorne Bridge. He was right. It was a lovely view. That earns him an extra star. Sometimes kindness is as simple as pointing someone toward a better sky. In conclusion, PLS on 6th is a decent spot if you are staying at the Hotel Zags and want something close, quiet, and just fine. The prices are reasonable. The food is solid. The service is something else. Whether that something is charming or exasperating depends on how long you've been waiting for your drink.

It's a convenient location, but the concept seems like a miss for the area, and the food was not that great, particularly for the prices they charge. Not bad, but not that good either. If you're staying at the hotel, it's covenient. But if you're not, I don't know why you would choose this restaurant over many others downtown.

The staff are extremely slow, rude and don’t communicate with each other. I was charged for a shake that they didn’t have and was told AFTER I paid. When I mentioned that this happened to the next employee they just shrugged it off. And their shakes are $18!!!??? Not to mention the wait and prices are insane for cheap bar food. Beautiful patio but terrible restaurant.

I dined here as I was staying at the hotel and had a long day of traveling so wanted something convenient. Unfortunately the food was tasteless and the service non existent. I believe they were understaffed as it appeared there were only two servers working the whole restaurant including the outside patio (which is lovely). The servers literally had sweat pouring down their faces. I had the happy hour Caesar salad and a Margherita pizza. The salad was edible but the pizza was really bad. Oily with no flavour and looked like they had blasted one coin-sized area with dried oregano. I also ordered a glass of wine but it never arrived. I had to get up from my table and walk to the bar to ask for a glass of water. Again, I think the servers were being run off their feet, so I don’t completely blame them. I’ll note my stay at the hotel was great.

Great place! Good drinks, and beautiful patio! Oh and the Staff is AMAZINGLY AWESOME.

We had dinner with friends at Zags on a slow early Sunday evening, so we were surprised the kitchen was soooo slow! We waited around 40 minutes for our entrees, and two meals were later. We insisted our friends eat while the food was warm. Their comment was the fries were the best part of the meal. Our meals arrived, with Salmon hammered into leather. My pasta primavera, the name means fresh vegetables, usually spring veggies like asparagus, peas, carrots, and tomatoes are features. This fettuccine was covered with briny cocktail onions, pickled capers, canned mushrooms and artichokes. Due to all the pickled veggies, the dish was inedible, salty and almost funny. The taste of the cocktail onions was the only flavor profile, with vinegar and salt… and several of our party agreed it was inedible. I had heard good things about Zags, so was surprised at the terrible food. Maybe a new chef or staff no-showed? But really, don’t order the primavera, it isn’t primavera at all, or Salmon, or burgers. At least, based on Sunday nights. The stars here are for Josh, who was swamped with tables by the time we left, clearly understaffed in the front of the house. Josh was friendly, helpful, and apologized, saying there were only two folks in the kitchen. Management, why was that?

We made reservations for seven on the Fourth of July, which turned out to be as necessary as an ashtray on a motorcycle. The place was nearly empty. That's not always a bad omen. Empty can mean peace. It can mean solitude. In this case, it mostly meant the staff had no excuse to be so slow. The place is pleasant enough. Fire pits flickered in the courtyard like the last stubborn lights of a dying universe. There were a few 80s and 90s arcade games humming their low-tech lullabies near the front. Everything was clean. I appreciate clean. Clean means someone still cares. I ordered the chicken sandwich. It had pepper-jack cheese from Tillamook, pickled onions that were trying their best, a spinach leaf or two doing a little backstroke in a sun-dried tomato aioli. The sourdough was toasted. The sandwich was perfectly sufficient. The fries were fine in the way that a polite Midwestern conversation is fine. One of our group has a basil allergy. She ordered the Love & Soul Burger with no basil aioli. It arrived with basil aioli. The server asked if the kitchen could just scrape it off. Scrape it off. As if allergens were emotional wounds or jelly from a kid's sandwich. A refire was requested. The server sighed like we'd just asked him to rewrite the Magna Carta. Speaking of our server. A man of limited patience and zero visible sense of humor. When someone in our group asked if the mushroom burger had mushrooms, he blinked like a fax machine receiving bad news. She was trying to determine if the patty itself was a mushroom or if there were simply mushrooms on the burger. We found the ludicrousness of the conversation hysterical. He was not interested in the nuance. Still, he did redeem himself in a small and human way. He suggested we walk a few blocks to see the fireworks from the Hawthorne Bridge. He was right. It was a lovely view. That earns him an extra star. Sometimes kindness is as simple as pointing someone toward a better sky. In conclusion, PLS on 6th is a decent spot if you are staying at the Hotel Zags and want something close, quiet, and just fine. The prices are reasonable. The food is solid. The service is something else. Whether that something is charming or exasperating depends on how long you've been waiting for your drink.

Criminally understaffed restaurant with very limited menu (whose decision was it to cost-cut this hotel restaurant beyond recognition? Video games do not help), expensive prices and hours-long wait for anything. One friendly but harried employee doing all bar and restaurant service both inside and outside.

I hear with a friend in December and it was as I had remembered it. I really decent restaurant attached to the Zags Hotel. I took my family and a friend yesterday to what I thought was the same restaurant, but this place has totally changed the menu and I was shocked at how amateurish of an establishment it has become. I feel bad for the people that worked there because it is so understaffed and that's probably not their fault. It's probably the manager's fault or whatever corporate entity is trying to cut costs so it's probably some Evil executive who thinks they're gonna fix the bottom line, but I can't see why anybody would eat here unless you're staying in the hotel and you are afraid of getting stabbed if you venture outside of the hotel. Anyway, the menu was kind of more like a college bar menu And the service was really not good because they only had one person working as the bartender and the waiter so I had to ask him to come over to our table many times I asked him if the salad with salmon was a good dinner portion, and he led me to believe that it was and it turned out that it was basically a side salad with a sad piece of fish thrown on top of it I mean, I'm no chef but I would much rather eat my own cooking then give this place Wildly inflated amounts of money for this uninspired food. And because of the understaffing, the chef herself had to bring out the food. It really didn't make any sense. We had to ask for napkins and silverware and it just mystified me because only a few months ago it was actually a pretty nice place. Unless you just don't feel like leaving the hotel you could eat here there are better restaurants closer to Portland State you'd probably be better off just having a quest bar from the lobby and sitting in this restaurant waiting to get served never again.