Driftwood Room
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| Location | Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°31′16″N 122°41′16″W / 45.52098°N 122.68769°W |
The Driftwood Room is a bar and restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Hotel deLuxe, in the United States.
In 2012, Portland Monthly's Brandy Crowe said the bar "remains a heavily trafficked destination for cool kids and fans of mixology alike. The lounge retains its original plush and charm with very little retouching since being installed in the mid-1950s when it was still the Hotel Mallory."[1] Jay Horton of Willamette Week wrote in 2016, "Once a withering lounge attached to a de facto extended care facility whose name described furnishings and patrons alike, the Driftwood Room has been reborn as a windowless jewel box of luxe tippling that lures a cosmopolitan array of visiting guests, West Hills dowagers, and genteel bohemians sniffing happy-hour bargains like half-price Champagne cocktails, in one of the few bars in Portland that has bothered to make such things into a house specialty alongside flights of Manhattans. Imagine ... a world of tiny Manhattans in dim light."[2]
Condé Nast Traveler's Jen Stevenson described Driftwood as "a small, sultry, retro hole-in-the-wall bar, local legend, and destination all its own".[3] Fodor's says, "Once your eyes adjust to the romantically dim lighting, you'll find a curved bar, leather banquette seating, and polished-wood ceilings and walls in this retro-chic bar in the Old Hollywood–themed Hotel deLuxe. The trendy cocktails are garnished with herbs culled from the hotel's garden. The happy-hour food menu is one of the best in the city."[4] Time has described the bar as "one of Portland's iconic lounges" and a "dark, wood-paneled" space where "local deal-makers hobnob in cushy leather banquettes".[5] According to Travel + Leisure, "The space has cushioned banquette seating, alligator skin and shark skin railing, moody wall sconces, and the namesake driftwood affixed to a purple back bar".[6]
History
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Steven Sirok oversaw the cocktail menu, as of 2016.[7] In 2019, the bar expanded its absinthe options, offering seven varieties of the spirit as well as multiple absinthe cocktails.[8]
