PLS on Sixth

American restaurant · Downtown

PLS on Sixth

American restaurant · Downtown

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515 SW Clay St, Portland, OR 97201

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Arcade games, fire pits, and a beautiful patio await  

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515 SW Clay St, Portland, OR 97201 Get directions

plsonsixth.com
@thehotelzags

$20–30 · Menu

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515 SW Clay St, Portland, OR 97201 Get directions

+1 503 484 1084
plsonsixth.com
@thehotelzags

$20–30 · Menu

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Portland Openings to Know, June 2025 | Eater Portland

"A downtown hotel restaurant relaunched with a kid-friendly atmosphere, centered on approachable smash burgers, milkshakes, and salads; the burger program draws on a San Francisco pedigree and aims to be family-oriented and casual." - Paolo Bicchieri

https://pdx.eater.com/openings/104246/portland-restaurant-bar-openings-june-2025
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Ola M

Google
Loved this place! We ate here every day when we stayed at Hotel Zags. We had the birria poutine, groovy fries, peace love and wings, bacon me crazy salad, grilled cheese, it’s your bag pizza, pork & harmony pizza, portlandia milkshake, purple haze milkshake, and short-shake milkshake. Everything was absolutely delicious and I would definitely reorder anything we ate. All the dishes were fresh, flavourful, and well prepared. My personal favourites were the groovy fries, grilled cheese, and purple haze milkshake. Everyone working there was friendly and welcoming and gave INCREDIBLE recommendations. Shout out to Arthur who not only makes incredible drinks but would consistently go above and beyond!

M E Nelson

Google
Located inside the Hotel Zags! Great bar, good Happy Hour (6-8), AMAZING food!! Staying at the attached hotel, this place is a go to for a quick bite, or a sit down dinner! Patio has tons of games and ample fire pit seating! 10/10

Andrew Cherny

Google
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.

Gerald Pinner

Google
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.

Isidora Dragovic

Google
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.

Leandra Paasch

Google
I had the strawberry shortcake shake and it was delicious. The fries were also tasty. The person who helped us was absolutely delightful. 10/10 service

Mark PDX

Google
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.

Kelly Denice Taylor

Google
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.
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Courtney C.

Yelp
Came here while staying at the hotel and was pleasantly surprised. The outdoor area is very nice with a lot of seating and fire pits. The food is decent for hotel food, and the happy hour (or golden hour) deals were great. My server was also very attentive and nice. What I did not like was the homeless person who came in and stared at me eating and then went to do the same at a few other tables. He eventually left after another patron asked him to leave, but I was surprised he was able to get in and that no restaurant staff stopped him. I've lived in downtown SF and there I never saw a homeless person actually get inside a closed space like that.
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Jerry P.

Yelp
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.

Ashley R.

Yelp
Great for kids to enjoy. Beautiful Patio. Arcade games and more. Great food and staff!

foodfoodfood f.

Yelp
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.

Chad L.

Yelp
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.