Some long-running gay clubs, including The Escape, have permanently closed following announcements saying they would relocate. The post added Silverado is finalizing the contract for a new space, but an employee who did not want their name published said the club is still deciding between locations. However, the club’s Facebook page described Silverado’s difficulty in finding a new space, writing, “We even had one space ask us not to have dancers! I mean, come on.” Silverado hopes to open again in time for Pride Season in June. The club is currently seeking space in Northwest Portland and Old Town-Chinatown, near CC Slaughters, Old Town-Chinatown’s largest LGBTQ+ nightclub. Silverado has been looking to move for several years, but its current lease on SW 3rd Avenue ended before it could finalize a deal on a new home, another Facebook post detailed. “I also use Bacardi 151, a bigger glass, some crème de cocoa, and charge $8 instead of $10,” he said.Silverado, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest male strip club, will vacate after ten years at its current downtown Portland location.Īccording to a March 23 Facebook post, Silverado is seeking a new location and will host its last night at its current home on Saturday, March 31. By 7 p.m., it’s standing room only.ĭrink: Bartender Jon Michael Phillips Jr. will put his Spanish coffee up against anyone’s in Portland, including city’s iconic Huber’s. On Sundays, instead of church, the dancing starts at 5 p.m. A massive nacho plate is a popular order, with spicy beef, jalapeños, black olives, and salsa. Despite the show inside, Portland’s only gay strip club would be easy to miss without the rainbow flag waving outside. While most of the food is deep-fried, the club serves fresh salads, and I chomped into a Floburger (named for Flossie, the original owner), encompassing two patties, crisp bacon, and Cheddar, with a side of fries. It’s 9 p.m., and a parade of a dozen go-go boys in briefs take turns at the various platforms to strip down and show their goods. In business for 34 years, Silverado is in a plain building with American flag bunting in the window, sports on the TV, a pool table, video poker, and pumping techno music.
Herewith, the skinful establishments that cleverly combine the carnal and the culinary. “Portland always has been a little seedy-all the way back to its roots as a shipping town, complete with Shanghai tunnels leading to the docks.”Īnd while strip clubs aren’t about to steal Portland’s restaurant spotlight, there’s a great deal of pride and talent among their chefs. There’s one for every 9,578 residents, a density surpassing even Tampa and Las Vegas, and they appeal to people of every conceivable persuasion-gay and straight, the tattooed and the surgically enhanced, and, of course, the hungry. “It’s a hedonistic town,” observed Mercury, a dancer at Blush.
In Portland, strip clubs are nearly as common as cafés.
So it goes at the Acropolis Steakhouse, a well-known strip club in Portland, Oregon. When she realized my attention was focused on reviewing the breakfast, and not her, she politely slinked away-and over to a grinning newcomer who’d just bellied up. and I was munching on steak and eggs when I heard a voice purr, “Whatcha doin’?” A curly-haired woman wearing only a plaid skirt was crawling catlike toward me on the bar.