Pub 181

What an awesome place! It's a neighborhood sports bar that magically transforms itself almost every night! The food is GREAT! Burgers...Sands... Salads to die for. And you should see the size of their food too! The "Bob's Big Boy" is an Original. Prices are fantastic for a place like this. TV and I've heard Monday night football is NUTS! Staff is great. Drinks are great. Food is great. What more could you want? 6 poker machines-3 pool tables (which are really busy & you better bring your A game) Digital jukebox-Live music every weekend... AND NO COVER CHARGE! HOLY COW! This girl has personally been there on weekends and the music is some of the best I've heard...let alone in a place that doesn't charge you $5 just to walk in the door. Dance floor can get jammin too! Did I mention they have karaoke on tue-wed-thurs? Yup...they do! Parking is more than Only negative I could say is...they smoke...but hey...in a few more months, we won't worry about THAT EITHER! If you want fun...go here. more

Pub 181, at first glance appears to be some sort of hick bar. Oddly enough, there was a lack of hicks in there. It's spacious, 2 pool tables, those e-slot machine thingies, & kareoke. Yes, I willingly went to a kareoke bar. We just so happened to come in on $1 well drink night & proceeded to get tanked on Jack & Cokes. They were well made, you could actually taste the whiskey. Could have done without the 45,872,309,592,836 billion ice cubes in there though. The bartender was a peach, apologized for being busy, but it was crowded in there. The waitress, needs to wear a bra that fits, or no bra at all & kinda stop having inane conversations with all the patrons & bring the friggin' drinks ho'kay? Ah yes, and there was food. Standard & not so standard pub fare. Since we got there much too late to order anything off the lunch & dinner menu, we got Jojo's. Oddly sliced things but OH, they were pretty good & you get a decent amount for $3.75, actually. They have lots of kitsch on the walls, some drug themed, some hick themed, all amusing. The bar stools are nicely padded, no sore butts! There's no dance floor, which is ok since I look like a twink having a coke induced seizure when I dance. The bathrooms were scarily clean. Having gone to mostly dives in my career as a drunken broad I'm not quite used to not having to step over puddles of urine on the floor. So, I'm not sure if that's a plus or a minus. HA! The crowd is a mixed bunch. Old people, young people (I think I have seen a few of the guys around campus), & inbetweenies. Only a couple of complete creeps & fatties in short shorts. Overall, I'd totally go back. They have nightly specials on both food & drinks. The people are cool, the bartender doesn't water drinks down, & there is a cigarette machine. OoOo! Pub 181 18415 SE Division St Gresham, OR 97030 Check it out! more

Pub 181 is actually on 184th. How confusing is that? I think it well reflects the mixed atmosphere and smokey chintz of the place itself. For people watchers, this is the place to be to observe people who wish they were somebodies. It's a place where grownups can play pretend, be important to the pickup of the moment...men can remove their wedding rings and women can strut around pretending that they're not going grey and wrinkly under all that clarol and covergirl. It is most amusing. On the other hand, the beer choices are good and the service fast. Food is OK...and some of the bands on the weekends are GREAT. more