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Brix Tavern

Brix Tavern is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Pearl District, in the United States, that serves American cuisine. The 150-seat restaurant was opened in April 2011 by Urban Restaurant Group and offers a menu that includes wood-fired pizzas, rotisserie meats, and other comfort foods. Brix has hosted and participated in special events, and has received a generally positive reception; compliments are most often given for happy hour menu options.

Brix Tavern is a 150-seat restaurant that serves American cuisine in northwest Portland's Pearl District. According to Portland Monthly, Brix is a New American restaurant and the district's "game-time go-to" with 30 craft beers on tap, 20 television sets, a billiard table, two dart boards, and a happy hour menu available for six hours each day. Erin DeJesus of Eater Portland classified Brix as a lounge and sports bar. Snooker was available for free, as of 2015.

One restaurant guide has described Brix Tavern as a "warm, contemporary" restaurant and bar serving "a unique collection of enduring American comfort food and cocktails enhanced with only the freshest, locally sourced ingredients". The menu focuses on wood-fired pizzas and rotisserie meats but has offered options including whole chicken or grilled beef platters with four sauces (including béarnaise), prime rib, fried chicken, roasted halibut, and truffled macaroni and cheese. The brunch menu, which is available at weekends, offers a "slight Southern twist" and includes chicken and waffles, biscuits and gravy with maple sausage, eggs Benedict, shrimp and grits, mimosas, and complimentary cinnamon sugar doughnuts drizzled with chocolate and raspberry.

The dessert menu has included a Heath bar brownie, crème brûlée, and a blackberry buttermilk pie. The happy hour menu included calamari, pizza Margherita, and seared yellowfin tuna with avocado, corn, tomato, and wasabi mayonnaise, as well as the "kicky" Brix Mule with bourbon or vodka, as of 2019. Other drinks on the happy hour menu have included the Huckleberry Gimlet with huckleberry vodka and blackberry syrup, the Backyard Margarita with muddled Oregon berries, and the Red Neck Iced Tea with bourbon whiskey.

In 2013, David Sarasohn of The Oregonian said, "Brix finds other ways to keep the happiness flowing outside designated hours, too. On Thursdays it offers a three-course meal plus cocktail for $30, and every night features a surprise $3 brown bag canned beer special." The restaurant offered half-priced bottles of wine on Thursdays, as of 2016.

Brix Tavern opened on April 22, 2011, in a space that was previously occupied by an Italian-Mediterranean restaurant called Olea. Urban Restaurants, Inc. had applied for Brix Tavern's liquor license by November 2010. Other restaurants within Urban Restaurant Group include Bartini, Carlita's, Swank and Swine, and Urban Fondue as of 2017. In 2018, Brix Tavern was featured on "Winner Winner Free Dinner", the second episode of the first season of the Food Network's television show Big Bargain Eats.

Brix Tavern has hosted and participated in a variety of special events. In 2016, the restaurant hosted a "Beer – Barbecue – Bourbon Buffet" featuring a barbecue, beers by Ninkasi, and bourbon whiskey by Elijah Craig. The 2017 "Whiskey Wash" event invited local distilleries to pair whiskeys with the venue's sweet-bourbon rotisserie pork leg. For Thanksgiving in 2017, the restaurant served a four-course dinner with roast turkey.

Brix has participated in Portland Mercury's highball cocktails event, Burger Week, and Nacho Week events. For Burger Week in 2017 and 2019, Brix offered a burger called "The Norm" with sirloin steak, smoked Tillamook cheddar fondue, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, caramelized onions, and sauce for five dollars. For Nacho Week in 2019, Brix offered the "Brix Chips" with braised roasted pork shoulder, Swiss cheese fondue, grilled tomato salsa, cilantro cream, and tortilla chips, for five dollars as well. For a Super Bowl viewing party in 2020, Brix served buffalo wings, barbecue pork ribs, mini corn dogs, "lil smokies", mozzarella sticks, tater tots, and nachos in the form of chips and tater tots.

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