The Love Shack
Bar · Northwest District ·
Unique bar cart dining with creative cocktails and small bites
Unique bar cart dining with creative cocktails and small bites
"I learned that when Love Shack in Portland opened they split cart service 50/50 between food and drink, but after discovering food waste from unsold dishes they shifted to primarily tableside martini and mini drink service with the occasional food special — currently a build-your-own caprese salad." - Jaya Saxena
"What if Mad Men were primarily a show about friends who liked hanging out together and all of them, not just Roger, were on acid? Well, then the gang would hang out at the Love Shack, the cocktail bar next to big sister restaurant G-Love. The Love Shack specializes both in classic drinks like martinis and tropical-inspired innovations. The food menu is giving seaside steakhouse, with fun options like a seafood tower, a “flight of fries,” or — if you have that Sterling Cooper Draper Price money — caviar service. Best of all, drinks and food arrive on bar carts stacked high with mini ‘tinis and oysters. It’s the kind of place where the prime rib comes garnished with a lit sparkler." - Katherine Chew Hamilton
"Located in Portland, this place lists a mezze platter under 'bigger' and a charcuterie board under 'primo supreme.'" - Jaya Saxena
"The Love Shack in Slabtown provides an interactive dining and drinking experience, thanks to the brass carts that get wheeled around the tables dim sum-style. Pick out a crab roll bao or Yuzu Drop Shot and get a stamp on the menu just like a traditional dim sum parlor. Drinkers aren’t limited to what’s rolling around, though. Order The Badfish; a pleasant drink that uses Westward Whiskey Original as a foundation, balanced by bright grapefruit and lemon, then rounded out with bittersweet Cynar and a touch of warming cinnamon, all served in an adorable mug that resembles a blowfish." - Krista Garcia
"Bar carts weave around tables at G-Love’s sister bar the Love Shack, delivering small bites like croissant banh mi and celery root falafel in addition to mini cocktails like yuzu drop shots. The bar’s play on milk and cookies is a fun nod to the nighttime snack; here, the grown-up version includes boozy banana milk. Sipping on standard-sized cocktails like There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand — in which hot honey and yuzu are fortified by banana-infused tequila — give customers a vacation feel under the indoor palapa." - Rebecca Roland, Janey Wong, Eater Staff