bridgeport brewery

BRIDGEPORT BREWERY, NW 13TH AND MARSHALL, PORTLAND

The area of Northwest Portland surrounding the rising leg of the Fremont Bridge was once known as The Bucket. This was a mosaic of industrial warehouses and empty lots, and Bridgeport Brewery was the local watering hole, an old ivy-covered brickhouse filled with large dining tables and serving up tasty slices of pizza to go along with one's pint of Blue Heron Pale Ale. The place was closed for almost a year in 2006 for an extensive remodel. Bridgeport discarded its pizza-based beginnings and emerged from its cocoon a restaurant, shiny and pristine. When one enters the brewpub, he or she immediately experiences a sense of loftiness that exudes as much trend as the upscale condominiums (and due to the market's oversaturation, luxury apartments) that surround it on all sides. Bridgeport 2.0 features an expanded menu (featuring fractions in the pricing - they're too high-end for decimals now), a new bakery, and, fortunately for me, an affordable happy hour. This will be posted shortly.

DINNER MENU.

PINTS: $3 3/4 for 20oz. imperial pints.

PITCHERS: $10 1/4

BEER OF CHOICE: for a good (and limited) time, check out Stumptown Tart. (Strong at 8.4 percent, this fruit-tastic brew is like some kind of winebeer.)



DON'T MISS: the house-smoked pulled pork sandwich. (one of the best in the city, up there with Laurelwood.)

I WANT TO TRY: baked butternut squash mac + cheese. (with fontina cheese, swiss chard, hazelnut bread crumbs, +/- onions)



OLD SCHOOL BRIDGEPORT - BEFORE THE PEARLIFIZIN'