Hobos Lounge Reviews

Great drinks. Stopped here before a haunted underground tour. Very fitting starting location before climbing into the tunnels of the city.

We did the Shanghai Underground tour and it was awesome. Very educational and interesting. It's amazing that Portland built their present city over the old one and tried to just bury it and pretend it never happened. We learned such amazing and rich history of the city in it's early days and how rough and scary of a place it really was. If you're ever in Portland I highly recommend you take the time to experience this tour. I do have pictures but I can not post them or use them without permission of the Shanghai Underground Tour people.

Great enviroment in the Old Merchant Hotel. Favorite evenings are Thursday through Sundays when Jim Blackburn is playing on the Piano.

Ate in the lounge area, food was ok. Service was slow. Tour people coming through was distracting.

So much fun. Great atmosphere and food was truly surprisingly good. Will definitely be back

The vibe is always amazing. Their food is absolutely amazing and the customer service is A1. Thank you!

I just had a drink before the tour, but sure this place seems cool

Good food,great people who wait on you. And the Shanghai tunnels are something to see.

Love the formal-look but casual vibe of this place. Chad... Amazing service from that guy!

Very laid-back, old time feel. Cozy, Victorian lounge; Antique furniture pieces and dim lighting.

The pianist was great, played more of a jazz style than a party piano bar (at least on the Sunday eve of Labor Day weekend, maybe Friday and Saturday nights are different).

Ok cocktails, friendly and fast service, the happy hour apps we had ($1 oyster shooters, $4 taster fried calamari ) were solid but not especially mind-blowing.

Overall This was an AWESOME and totally memorable dive experience for us and our wedding party friends, so it's a 5 star novelty experience in my book, but I give it 4 stars for the Average-ish food and cocktails.

Old school atmosphere with great cocktails in the service very friendly and always makes me proud be able to bring anybody here gay straight or otherwise

Hadn't even sat down when the bartender came over to see what we wanted. And as we tryed to look over the menu he just hovered over us.

Love the weekday bartenders. Always a blast closing out the night with some pool.

Amazing food, great service.. we had a large party and I got to try everything that everyone ordered.. so tasty! And our waitress was very prompt.. couldn't have been a better start to the night!

Good customer service.. a little to expensive for my taste

Great atmosphere. Good food. Wait staff very friendly and helpful.

Wonderful food, wonderful staff, wonderful atmosphere

This place hasn't changed much in the last 20 years. While it still has its charm, the food menu is quite dated. Food quality of the lounge menu, has suffered with more frozen meats used and chef mic ( microwave ) being used more often. Still it seems to do ok. Stay away from the chicken strips as they are frozen and tasteless. The dinner menu is decent, but when you pay $20.00 for a dinner, I expect at least a hand tossed salad, rather than a bagged iceberg salad to accompany my dinner.

While waiting for the Shanghai Tunnel tour to begin,I found the staff, service, and food at Hobo's just wonderful. We got there in time for happy hour and we ordered sliders, pizza and a beef mushroom dish. the mushroom dish was so good my daughter didn't even share with the rest of us. All that for under 20.00. Loved the place. Will go back the next time I'm in Portland

get servers, food good. not as good as 20 years ago but good.

Loved the atmosphere, bar tender/server was excellent. Definitely will be back!

Great food and ambience! Ask for James, the manager, he'll take great care of you!

Left at 1am came back the club only had about 30 people inside and then they said only one person in lmfao

Terrific! So glad we had time to kill waiting for the Shanghai Underground tour and decided to eat here. Fabulous steak tips, fish tacos, chicken pizza and the sliders! And Happy Hour made all this under $20.00! Woo-hoo

Place was awesome love the history dont take the underground tour basicaly hang out in basement and talk history

Always love coming here.. good nice place to chill with a friend

We came here to tour the Shanghai tunnels, and stayed for the great food. The service was awesome, and the live piano music was such a treat.

We had an excellent experience at Hobo's. The food was delicious and the portions generous. Our server Brice made the night with great service and even a few suggestions for local stops for our trip.

This place had some really awesome food and the service was pretty good would totally go there again. My only complaint is that it was pretty dark inside

It was a nice little quiet spot in Chinatown. $4 happy hour menu cozy little spot.

The staff here are such a riot! Welcoming, funny, and totally laid back. The building and decor make for a cozy establishment, but the staff are what make this place cool. If Hobo's has a shtick, it's making you glad you came in.

Loved this place. Great drinks, good food and what an awesome and friendly staff. We will be back. Thank you for the fun times

romantic but not overly stodgy. great food. great service.

Great food. Everything was so fresh and favor-filled that me and my friends tried. We only had appetizer but I am sure entrees would have been great also. If you are hanging out downtown Portland this is a great place to check out.

The ambience is great as well as the service. Been there twice for PGMC cast parties. They've always treated us right. Be careful on the street, it's not in the greatest neighborhood.

Only walked through to go out back for the Portland underground tour. Loved it

Can't beat those Monday,s $5 burgers and $6 cocktails Love Hobos

Just recieved the WORST service ever. My friend and I were standing at the bar for a good 15 minutes and were not acknowledged once by a bar tender. When other people came to the counter they were serived right away. I even said excuse me to this man who must have been a bus boy and right away he was like "no i dont make drinks" instead of getting someone else to help me or even being like "how can i help you" i don't know what the hell was going on, nothing like that has ever happened to me before any other place. 2 thumbs down

Did the Shanghai underground tour was really cool to learn about portalnds dark past that still exsists today

The nachos from the bar menu is good! But stay for a cocktail! They have a full dinner menu, I've only had the chicken it was ok, but I'll stick to the nachos. On certain nights they have a guy there playing the piano.

Great place to hang out down town! Kai, the bartender, rocks! We had a great time there two different nights on our last trip.

Bad service, mediocre food, use to love the place. Has gone way down hill

Delicious. The happy hour food specials are generous, to say the least. Impressive for the price. Great vibe and interior decor. Knowledgeable bartenders (Jared is awesome!) are good at chatting about anything while recommending quality booze.

The history of the building is neat as well, and we took the Shanghai tunnel tour that meets in the lobby. If you're a history buff or interested in Portland eclectic stuff, really neat.

Wait staff was excellent! Food passable: some good flavor, but lacking in preparation. And why are apparently homeless people wandering through?

Cool old-school place. Dancing on Fridays and Saturdays.

I liked the casual style to the place. The food was good. I had the prime rib sandwhich. The meat had a few tough spots but the flavor was good and the price was right. The service was quick and staff friendly. Would go here again.

I'm always pleasantly surprised by how good the food is here. I had their beef Wellington, which I hadn't had in years, and it was delicious. But the real treat here is the ambiance of the place. From the music from the piano to the warmth of the fireplace, there are few bars like this left. I am so glad we still have this one!

slow service and no refills. They were out of scallops so I got the steak. My husband asked for blue cheese crumbles melted on his. Mine came out with it too. Frozen "seasonal" veggies that are not in season in mid September. Creme burlee is essentially vanilla pudding. No vanilla bean and very small.

Steak was cooked well.

Love this place. Big plus is that it sits above the Shanghai Tunnels.

Low key, fast service and good food , has covered outside patio as well

Great cioppino! Love the laid-back atmosphere. Surprisingly inexpensive, especially for such high quality. Loved the chocolate cloud coffee too.

Cozy that allows for conversation. Menu items are tasty and come out fairly quick. Good staff.
On street parking.
No pokestops from venue and okay spawns.

Foods was excellent it was cooked perfect just the way we liked, the room was perfect with the light,the music was excellent not to loud or to low I would definitely go back again

Very nice old pub with a ton of history and great food.

In many ways, Hobo's is much more than a gay-owned restaurant. To me it's an important gay Portland landmark at a time when they are starting to disappear. There is Darcell's just north. One wonders how long that place will last. Hobo's is rumored to close for over a year now. That's worrisome because after Starkey's closed, gay places that really are gay are diminishing. Cadillac remains. Anyway, I have been coming to Hobos since 1994. The food stays remarkably consistent. I had a French dip about two weeks ago. It was meh, but that's OK. A few nights ago I had a filet and scallop entree that I might only find at Morton's or Ruth's Chris or some restaurant in Seattle, S.F. or L.A. Yes, that good and at a price that is way affordable. I never want this place to close. I wish ownership all of the best luck in keeping the doors open.

Dinner was wonderful! But the Creme Brule was outstanding. I loved the live music. And my drinks were stiff !!Thank you ! I recommend coming here for a relaxed dinner.. and they've got the Shanghai Tourist thing going on so when your feeling spunky enough to go down to the spooky Shanghai tunnels.. it's literally right there. So check it out

Swanky, gay friendly bar. Good drinks, good atmosphere, pool and lottery games too

Service was great bartender performs as waiter even though it was fairly quick and accurate.

I stopped in here while I waited for my shanghai tunnel tour and had a drink. The bar itself is kind of cool but ultimately it doesn't quiet come together for me. The bar area was cool and the drinks were good, but the hillbilly music playing didn't quite fit the vibe of the place. I think if they dimmed the lights 30% and turned off the country music it would be a better consumer experience. Just my opinion.

It has a very cozy and fun atmosphere. Great drinks and excelent service. Though some of the food offerings are certainly interesting, the ingredients are not the best quality considering the prices they charge.

The food was mediocre. It was a nice haven amidst weekend nightlife chaos, but the wait staff were not very friendly or very helpful for that matter. It was late.

I could eat here everyday!! Perfection! Ask for Steven!

The security personnel at the entrance are incredibly rude, like if there's no other place out there where to spend money and have good time. Avoid this place AT ALL COSTS.

Went for the underground tour that met up there. The drinks were tasty but the service was slow.

Went for the Underground Tour. The experience was ruined by all the street people surrounding the location.