Spare Room Restaurant and Lounge

Spare Room Restaurant and Lounge
The Spare Room
	Logo
	The restaurant's exterior, 2022
Address	4830 Northeast 42nd Avenue
Location	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Coordinates	45°33′29.1″N 122°37′12.7″W / 45.558083°N 122.620194°W
Opened	1977
Website
	spareroomrestaurantandlounge.com

Spare Room Restaurant and Lounge, or simply The Spare Room, is a dive bar,^[1] restaurant, and entertainment venue in northeast Portland, Oregon, United States.

Description and history

The Spare Room is a restaurant and entertainment venue with two bars in northeast Portland's Cully neighborhood, established in 1977 in a former bowling alley. The restaurant's daily menu features standard pub food and classic American cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.^[2]^[3]

The space has a large dance floor and hosts a variety of events, such as bingo for seniors, country–western dances, karaoke, and hard and indie rock concerts.^[2]^[4] The Spare Room hosts a monthly event called "the Get Down", described by Willamette Week as a "soul, funk and R&B dance party that's almost too popular", as of 2018.^[2] The venue also hosts "Sugar Town", described as one of the city's "most established inclusive dance nights" featuring a disc jockey who specializes in blues and soul music.^[5]

Reception

The Spare Room was included in Portland Monthly's 2014 list of "Portland's Best Bars of the Moment".^[6] In her 2016 overview of restaurants along Northeast 42nd Avenue in Cully, The Portland Mercury's Andrea Damewood described the venue as a place "where the magic happens" with "a hell of a karaoke setup".^[4]

In 2018, Willamette Week described the venue as "an Old Portland icon that stands as the antithesis of New Portland's bougie homogeneity", with dim lights and inexpensive drinks.^[2] The paper's Donovan Farley wrote, "The food is typical bar fare with a homey twist – think meatloaf and spaghetti dinners... Like a chilled-out and boozy Waffle House, the Spare Room also serves breakfast daily at 7 am, making it the rare establishment that's a great place to begin and end your day, provided you can do so while remaining employed."^[2] Willamette Week also included the venue's "live-band karaoke experience", called "Karaoke from Hell", on their 2018 list of Portland's "best places to sing karaoke",^[7] and the "Sugar Town" event in their list of the city's most "queer-centric" dance parties.^[5]

References

^ "These Happy Hours Are So Cheap—It's Unreal". Willamette Week. 2016-09-30. Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Farley, Donovan (June 9, 2018). "The Spare Room Is the Antithesis of New Portland's Bougie Homogeneity". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
^ "Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge". Thrillist. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Damewood, Andrea (October 18, 2016). "NE 42nd Is Portland's New Restaurant Row". The Portland Mercury. Archived from the original on November 18, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Gormley, Shannon (June 12, 2018). "Five Queer-Centric Dance Parties in Portland". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on June 18, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
^ Barker, Brian; Dundas, Zach; Ritchie, Rachel; Scott, Aaron; Tepler, Benjamin; Seiler, Margaret; Patail, Marty (February 3, 2014). "Portland's Best Bars of the Moment". Portland Monthly. Archived from the original on June 4, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
^ "If You Want to Sing Out..." The Portland Mercury. April 4, 2018. Archived from the original on October 19, 2021. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

External links

Official website
"The Spare Room". The Portland Mercury.
"Spare Room". Portland Monthly.

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[1] "These Happy Hours Are So Cheap—It's Unreal". Willamette Week. 2016-09-30. Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2023-08-08.

[Farley-2] Farley, Donovan (June 9, 2018). "The Spare Room Is the Antithesis of New Portland's Bougie Homogeneity". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

[Thrillist-3] "Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge". Thrillist. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

[Damewood-4] Damewood, Andrea (October 18, 2016). "NE 42nd Is Portland's New Restaurant Row". The Portland Mercury. Archived from the original on November 18, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

[Gormley-5] Gormley, Shannon (June 12, 2018). "Five Queer-Centric Dance Parties in Portland". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on June 18, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

[Best-6] Barker, Brian; Dundas, Zach; Ritchie, Rachel; Scott, Aaron; Tepler, Benjamin; Seiler, Margaret; Patail, Marty (February 3, 2014). "Portland's Best Bars of the Moment". Portland Monthly. Archived from the original on June 4, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

[7] "If You Want to Sing Out..." The Portland Mercury. April 4, 2018. Archived from the original on October 19, 2021. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

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v t e Cully, Portland, Oregon
Business	Amalfi's Italian Restaurant Dick's Primal Burger Dirty Lettuce Nacheaux Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai Pizza Jerk Spare Room Restaurant and Lounge Stanich's Yonder
Geography	Cully Park Kʰunamokwst Park Neerchokikoo Rose City Cemetery Sacajawea Park Whitaker Ponds Nature Park
Related	De La Salle North Catholic High School
Category Commons

v t e Music venues in Portland, Oregon
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Defunct	Analog Café and Theater Backspace Berbati's Pan Blue Monk Brasserie Montmartre Candlelight Cafe & Bar The Dude Ranch Jimmy Mak's The Know La Luna The Liquor Store No Vacancy Lounge Paris Theatre Satyricon Tonic Lounge X-Ray Cafe
Related	Portland's Centers for the Arts

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