Sweet Home Bar & Grill

Lovely neighborhood dive with friendly staff and (almost) nightly activities: pool, karaoke, etc. it seems random but they got tasty Asian sticky ribs on the menu. Don't miss out on that!

A quintessential neighborhood dive bar! Came here to say how amazing the burger is! It is the best-example of a classic burger - lettuce, tomato, onion, quality beef, and the most perfect cheese skirt one could ask for. You don't need ketchup or mayonnaise, it's that good.

Showed up here on a Thursday night around 10:30 for Nacho Week. I'm always weary about being 30 mins before close, and try to gauge the staff about ordering food. The gentleman running the counter was awesome, said they would serve food until they closed, and took my order. It took a little longer, but I totally understand, and it was well worth the wait, but more on that shortly. This place definitely has a "dive bar" feel, there was Karoake and what appeared to be a good amount of regulars. Seemed like a fun place, but I'm burying the lede.... The Nachos!!! Best Nachos I've had so far! Chips, I doubt they were homemade, but better than the average chip. I'll admit, this way probably just the standard Nacho Cheese, but the Bulgogi was awesome!!! There was a good amount of it, it had great flavor and there was enough for almost every chip. This was also by far the biggest portion size i've gotten so far, might be double. As I was eating them, I was assessing if I could come back again before the week was out to get more!

The low-slung and unassuming Sweet Home Bar & Grill is a neighborhood gem! As a professional chef and food writer, I endeavored to spend (the Mercury's annual) Nacho Week chowing down on as many crunchy, crispy variations on the Nacho theme as I could. I was genuinely disappointed by the 3 out of 5 I tried; lackluster efforts would be an understatement. However, when I went to Sweet Home Bar & Grill, my faith in the tradition of Nacho Week was restored tenfold. First of all, this place is CLEAN - it's naturally dive bar dim inside, but your feet don't stick to the floor as you sidle up to the bar to meet - clearly, the fastest moving, most friendly bartender you'll ever meet, Crystal. Once I placed my order I took ownership of a table facing the door, yet strategically located for full reconnaissance once my eyes adjusted. The pool table, dining tables, barstools, video machines (and un-ripped-up chairs) were all in un-sticky, un-torn and clean! The music was 80's and 90's rock triggered my awkward college years, like a psychic, Crystal caught me staring off into the 'what if' abyss and brought me another Deschutes Pale Ale. My Nacho Quest was delivered to me in a large plastic tray under checkered paper: Bulgogi Beef Nachos. Tender, umami-rich rib-eye strips were layered on sturdy, freshly deep-fried tortilla chips and served with queso, garlic sour cream and (thankfully) the kimchi on the side. Trust me when I say, after disappointing nachos elsewhere, these were superb! Bulgogi Beef Nachos showed up like a 'just the facts, ma'am' and ended with a tip of the hat to my palate. High praise to Chef Steve Federlin for restoring my faith in Nacho Week. FUN FACT: I've been back a few times and I can personally recommend the Double Smashed Burger (phat and juicy) and the Steak & Fries (cooked to expectation with crispy, fluffy beer-battered fries). Now, if I could just get them to stop playing Christopher Cross...

Kind of a weird little neighborhood spot but it's charming. Bartenders are always nice. Pool, karaoke, decent sized smoking patio, lotto. Sometimes they don't have a cook and the bartender has to cook so make sure to be kind if it's super busy!

Salad came dressed with a ton of Parmesan mixed in with the dressing so it was all soggy and tasted bad; chicken wings heavily breaded and greasy and looked like they came from bantam chickens; menu said fries but I got undercooked tater tots. Yuck!!

Don't come to eat. Just drink and play slots. There's a pool table as well. It's really small. Plus there's no parking.

This review is for the food. This is your typical N portland dive, but apparently they just did a complete menu change and its fantastic. So used to the typical frozen crap that most dives have, but was the complete opposite. The portions were big too. This was better food than most nice breweries serve at half the price. I went with a smash burger with 5 hour carmelized onions. delish. Also the chicken strips, real pieces of panko crusted chicken? Wtf, where am I? seriously so good.

I had been to this place a few times previously and it was your typical North Portland dive bar. They are now under new ownership and I couldn't be happier with the changes the made. The bathrooms are now super clean, and their food is amazing. I got the Burger and it was so good. The 5 HOUR CARAMELIZED Onions are a must have and I added mushrooms as well. The burger had two big smash style patties, melted cheese and the perfect amount of lettuce and tomatoes. They put the caramelized onions and the mushrooms between the patties, which was an awesome veteran chef maneuver. It allowed the flavors to combine really well and elevated the burger to a whole new level. I went with the house side salad and that was great too. The home made croutons and parmesan cheese really made it. My girlfriend got the ribs and they were fall off the bone tender but also had a nice crispiness to them as well. Tasted like the made their own in house BBQ sauce as well. Overall the food was great and I cannot wait to come back to try the other menu items. The bartender was really friendly and new owner actually came out and chatted with us as well. It also looks like they brought on a bunch of new beers on tap as well. This is for sure going to be my go to bar now.

This is exactly what I've been looking for in Portland for the last 5 years! It's a dive bar with an elevated food menu. You can legitimately taste the quality of the food- everything tastes fresh, unlike the typical frozen to fried model at other dives. Great set up for watching sports, friendly, prompt service, low key vibe. The food is ridiculously good. Get the poutine- they use a homemade sausage gravy and instead of cheese curds, I think they're using smoked Gouda? Just seriously out of this world. Another favorite on the menu is the smash burger. I don't know what they do to get the cheese to be so perfectly melted, but oh my god, so good.

The new menu is amazing. Same great peeps for Sunday football. Nice to get every game! NFL package isn't cheap so we are happy happy they kept it. As always you cannot beat the karaoke fun late nights. The best neighborhood bar and grill

I'm glad to call Sweet Home "my bar home". I have met so many awesome people in the eclectic mix that Sweet Home attracts, that I can't even count. The food is awesome (try the tots with bbq sauce, or their homemade cheesecake!) and the drinks are fabulous. Not watered down, not small, and NOT expensive. They treat you like family here, accepting you no matter what walk of life you're from. Is it loud? Hell yes! Is it weird? Hell yes! Is it mediocre? Hell no! Much love to Paul and the staff, thank you for making Sweet Home my home sweet home.

Dive bar. Perfect for karaoke on Saturday nights cuz it's not crazy busy like Friday nights. Craig the KJ is the sweetest. Crystal is my favorite bartender. Always got a smile and knows how to make a drink.

Visiting from Los Angeles and my sister found this place on yelp, let me tell you, AMAZING BREAKFAST AND SERVICE. I didn't at h her name but she was the sweetest lady and very time efficient and took care of my sisters and I. Biscuits & gravy and French toast are a must for breakfast here

I just wish they started karokee at 9pm instead of 10.... The hour really makes a difference.

I've been to this place a couple, maybe 4 times - always for the $3.50 burger and fries deal. The price either went up, or I was always there previously during happy hour. I had to plunk down $4.50 this time. But for an extra ,50 cents, you can throw in a big, crappy can of beer... which is a bonus (and the only time I drink crappy beer is early in the day, when it just tastes "light". It's kinda dark and video poker is prevalent in the upstairs "deck". A pool table, a bar, and maybe 5 or 6 tables. Plus a shitload of TVs - mostly playing sports, with at least one soap opera and one Tosh.0. I guess you could call it a dive sports bar. The music is equal parts dreck (john cougar melloncamp!!!!!) and fun stuff (abba). Service is good, food come super quick. And it's pretty tasty. Don't get me wrong, it's a small bar burger with fries or tots, and it tastes like a bar burger. But the flavor, sauce and bargain make it worth the trip once in a while.

It's a pretty good crowd mostly and the karaoke was fun I thought it was a pretty friendly place except for a small contingency of people out on the patio who weren't very friendly but I don't think they were really regulars. And the staff are great

I went to this place the other day in need of a biscuits and gravy type breakfast and with my wife wanting a bacon cheeseburger. The place is divey but that's the type of places I look for....not the corporate types, straight local. I will say the biscuits and gravy were...ok, nothing special. I probably won't come here for that again. But the portions on both were humongous for the price and the service was very good. With sodas came out to $18.50, very inexpensive! I did try my wife's burger and it was good. I will try something else here again.

Average North Portland bar. Cheap food, a couple pool tables, older Keno crowd, and an outdoor smoking section.

You want it loud, dirty, a little freaky, and a whole lot of fun? This is the place. Friday and Saturday are the best time of the week, and this place knows it. With Karaoke going both nights, its a great place to let loose. The song selection is varied, ranging from Elvis to Abba to Sinatra to Aqua to Green Jelly to Reba and so on. If you can think it, they likely have it. If not, they can usually get it. The food. Oh the om noms. They cater to the child in every one of us with tots. Tots are almost always available, and the extremely rare time they aren't, the barmen will cry with you. They carry steak fingers for cheap, and they're good, and they're my personal go to. The chicken strips are good. The sandwiches are divine. The booze cheap and strong. The people? Well, you won't find any shortage of weird here. Sweet Home seems to be all about Portland's motto, and they do not tolerate any discrimination whatsoever. From the video poker fans to the old men to the genderfluid patrons, there's a good varied mix. But the weekend warriors? They're the craziest of the bunch. Theme nights are a common thing here, from Storybook night to White Trash night, the costumes are amazing, as are the people in them. With a covered smoking area out front and KJs that will open the door and shout your name if you're next, you're not going to miss out on anything here. Yes, seating is limited, but often you'll be moving around too much to care.

Low key, local bar feel. D-bags or Hipsters no, old guys and degenerate gamblers yes. Awesome food, like-my-mom-made daily specials, beer and cheap drinks. Oh, and they sell beer. Which is good. Football special: $1.00 PBR tallboys and $3.50 burger basket.

This grill happened to be by our AirBnB. My sisters and I wanted some breakfast and it was one of the best small breakfast places I've been too. The food was great, it comes with a good serving and its very filling, all for a good cost. On top of that, our server was also very sweet. Definitely would recommend and go back.

Friendly staff, Strong drinks, Good prices, Great food and Awesome Karaoke! What more could you want on a friday or saturday night? As a friday night regular, I cannot say enough good things about this bar! It has been our friday night hangout for many years, and the nights we dont go out there just feel weird... The food is good, late night its just standard bar fare, but they recently updated their full menu to include a lot of awesome choices! (The ruben is amazing!!!) The karaoke library is massive, a lot of obscure songs that you cant find at other bars (ever heard of infant sorrow from the movie get him to the greek?) and the KJs both friday and saturday night are super cool! They even just upgraded their sound system too! All in all, if your looking for a great little bar to relax at, definitely worth checking it out!

I was lost on Lombard. I stumbled into this place and was instantly taken care of by the owner and Crystal. It was a very good night. Almost felt like I was in an episode of Cheers. Great find! I am blind so it was a place I felt very comfortable.

No frills, no hype, no hoop-la. They keep 'em comin', keep pourin' 'em quick 'n' cheap.... I remember when this cozy little building was devoted solely to the mass production of all things doughnutty in the 70s.... then in the 80s and 90s, it was a string of korean and other Asian eateries. The 2000s, being a new millennium and all, and this place is firmly settled in as a solid little go-to neighborhood watering hole, sure to be missed by the hipsters and glamour boys and girls. The well drinks are strong and reasonably priced, even in non-happy hour times. The place stays open late, and offers appetizers off the menu till the very end on most nights, although the "grill, proper" closes around ten. In sum, there are certainly worst places to meet up w/friends for a libation and game of pool or two...

So my gf and I just went into this bar. We got ignored. Wasn't busy. Was so dark in there maybe they just didn't see us. We left. I guess they didn't want our business.

This is what a dive bar should be. Cheap tasty food, an ecclectic mix of folks, strong.cheap.drinks. If this isn't your kind of place you're not my kind of people.

This is my favorite bar ever, precisely because it is a dive. A deep dive into the hick subculture of North Portland. I would swear the patrons exist only within the four walls of this place or that there is a wormhole connecting suburbia Phoenix to Sweet Home. On Friday and Saturday nights, men and women with beer bellies hanging out of their shirts will circle around the pool table like ironic sharks. There is hooting and hollering and gray, raspy voices. There is terrible lighting, video poker machines, and classic angst pumping out of the jukebox. Jaded stares follow anything under 30 with legs. On weekday afternoons, you can smell the despair. Never before has cheap food tasted so good. I have brought several dates to this place for my own, perverse amusement. It is absolutely worth forfeiting a potential relationship to watch someone cringe at the Sweet Home atmosphere for 2 beers. I won't pretend this place is 5 stars of shwanky or sexy, but every day I visit, it makes my day.

Bomb burgers, great staff including Randall, Patrick, Chrystal, occasionally my sis Jenni, and Tenderheart aka Jodi. The owner Paul is the man!! 8 big screens playing sports. Pool table, video poker, jukebox, mega touch, buck hunter HD, ATM, outdoor seating with your drink for us smokers. Karaoke thurs-sat with Betty mayham!!!

Well, it took a visit to Sweet Home to get me to actually register for Yelp, rather than just being a passive user. Hadn't been there in years and decided to check them out for brunch on Sunday. The first thing to hit me was an odd, sort of musty odor. Then I noticed large liquid stains on my chair, hopefully from falling drinks. The kicker though was watching for 5 minutes as the bartender conversed with one of the other 3 people in the bar, conveniently avoiding eye contact. Zip, zero, nada, no acknowledgement. It's been years since I've been there, it will be a lifetime before I go back.

I'm not a big bar person; I tend to not like the atmosphere. Sweet Home is different though. The people who work there are friendly without being pushy and the people who hang out there are just plain fun. Sweet Home has that local neighborhood feel and feels extremely open and welcoming at the same time. I love the characters that I meet there and they have open arms to all types of people. Discrimination isn't tolerated. The bar food is classic but it's oh-so-good and it always comes out fresh and hot. Lastly and most importantly, every time I ask them to put on the Timbers match, they happily oblige.

food was good. server gave me rancid orange juice in screwdriver. told him about. he say" oh i knew it was bad. i thought we'd changed it out. gave me fresh drink with oj out of new bottle. then he forgot about our food ticket. even after asked why so long says it takes a couple mins. well 25 mins for a 8 min burger is a bit much. so complained again. he neglected to hand in the ticket. amazing bar was pretty empty and we were only one's with food at time. although a couple other's had ordered and got food 10 mins before us. so ordered a second drink. bartender gives me 10 dollars change out of a 20 on a 5 dollar drink. i think he needs to work on BASIC GODDAMN MATH SKILLS. bartender was very dismissive about everything. seems he didn't really care. i don't drink and don't like bars anyway as they are full of drunks and crappy employees. this didn't help my outlook any this all occured saturday about 1230pm. i wish the owner's would mention something about this to him. like handing a final paycheck. oh and if you like assorted meth addicts this is good place to buy a 60$bag. plenty of them hanging out in front or in the parking area.

I love Sweet Home! The drinks are great (get yourself a Troublemaker, you won't be sorry), the food is tasty, the bartenders are awesome and karaoke Friday and Saturday nights rocks! The KJ's are super fun and have a ton of different stuff to sing. I love, love, love it there :)