If you visit dives often enough, you’ll inevitably have to brave the bathroom at some point, and any experienced dive bar patron can tell you how potentially terrifying the conditions might be.

Portland has so many dive bars, and folks feel passionately about each one. But the word "dive" can encompass many vibes.

“It’s a dive bar, so it still needs to be sticky, but we wanted it to be sticky in the fun way — not the way when you walk in and go, ‘Oh, that’s the smell of the bathroom.’ ...