Tony’s Tavern

Arlene is the most wonderful bartender in the whole world! She’s friendly and she’ll make you feel right at home. This bar is genuine and smells like grandma’s house.

Amanda is a ¹⁰⁄₁₀ bartender. Amazingly knowledgeable and kind and sweet… and also a total BADASS! Keep it up, Tony’s Tavern and Amanda!

The dive bar guide to divey dive related dive type things rated Tony’s as le greatest ACTUAL dive in a town that tries to call every place with a juke box a dive! Hold on to your woman and bring cash! THIS IS A GREAT DIVE BAR!

GODDAMNIT! The cat is out of the bag on Tony’s!
This place USED to be our go to pre/​post uncrowded Timbers game hangout. Alas, word has gotten out and it was CRAZY busy last night. Fingers crossed it was just opening day hysteria and the rain that drove this place full.
Tony’s is a dive. Not too much else to say. The beer is CHEAP. $ 3.25 for a small pitcher of hoppy booze water before all Timbers games. The bartenders for the most part manage all the chaos. There’s pool. And the bathrooms are OK, not Yamhole grungy, but not some place that would be featured in Clean Bar Bathroom Monthly.
A good resource to have before shelling out $ 9 and your first born for a beer at Jeld-We…err, Providence Park.

I love this place… from the old juke box to the great bartenders! It’s a great dive! I would have giving it 5 stars but I do believe it needs a debit machine.

After looking at some of the reviews here I can totally see where people are coming from but from my perspective I really enjoyed this place. It’s simply a no nonsense bar much like the Slammer or The Know. Michelle or «Shelly» was our bartender tonight and she was more than happy to serve our drinks. Not that it was dead there because it wasn’t but her smile and sincerity shows that she really cares about the level of customer service she delivers. We ordered our drinks and was just doing our thing with my group of people and she checked up on us periodically.
If you’re looking at it from an overall perspective. Yes, its definitely a dive. Yes, they do care about their customers. Yes, the place looks atrocious but that’s what makes it a dive so get over it and yes the other customers there are friendly and will engage you in conversation not like those other pretentious bars this side of town. So what they don’t take debit cards. Whip out your debit card and withdraw some Mula and stop bitching about debit card fees. Its inevitable so deal with it!
Thanks Michelle for making our experience here a wonderful one! We’ll have to come down again soon!

Tony’s has nothing special going on. It’s only real features are that it is cheap and never busy (e.g. not popular). If you into dive bars why not go to the matador which is just as cheap, in the same building, and has a better vibe. If you looking for a place to drink NW has plenty. Skip the trip to Tony’s.

I know I took a while to write a review but its still the same owners so its relevant. I and and three friends went there for christmas. Our bartender was friendly. We were the only ones spendindg money when we were in there. The owner came in however, and got in my face. He said I wasn’t old enough to be in there and got upset at the bartender ‘for not carding me’ enough though she carded all of us. His wife was even nastier. Most of us had backpacks on us and she flipped she said that bags of any kind weren’t allowed. She told us to leave. They wouldn’t even refund our quarters put in the jukebox that we didn’t get to play a song with. I won’t return to a bar that treats me like that.

Pssst!
Yeah, I’m talking to you Tony’s.
Take a look around. Notice anything? IT’S 2013! Bars are accepting credit and debit cards as payment these days. You are not the only dive bar in town to serve $ 2.00 crappy beer with a side of crappy ‘tude.
I am completely flummoxed by the five star reviews. Seriously?!?
So come along now; take down that decrepit paper sign you have taped to your bar and join the rest of the beer serving population and start accepting cards.

Tony’s exists for people that simply want to get drunk… usually in anonymity, but sometimes in extroverted celebration.
You bring cash, the easy-​going bartenders will serve you CHEAP beer and POWERFUL cocktails, then you drink them and chat quietly or just look straight ahead and let it all go.
On the decidedly NON-​HD televisions, you can watch your favorite basic cable shows and just be.
This is Tony’s. It exists because sometimes we all just need to get good n’ drunk sans judgement at any hour of the day.

Best dive bar in the city! Shhh don’t tell.
This fact rings true especially if you like to be involved with the scene. And by scene I mean the local can recycling service. So if you enjoy seeing 40−50+ year old men getting piss drunk in the early afternoon then this is the place for you. Even better yet. If you enjoy watching Cops at 3pm, but you would rather be a part of the action Tony’s is perfect. I’ll rattle off some no brainers for you.
CHEAP PITCHERS, especially happy hour.
TV’s, if you’re cable got shut off after you didn’t pay the bill, duh!
COMMON WORKING & NON-​TRADITIONAL WORKING FOLK
LOW-​KEY ENVIRONMENT, mostly
EXCELLENT LOCATION
POOL TABLES, the best offense is a good defense!
EXCELLENT SERVICE, especially if you have a clean shirt on
COMFY BOOTHS
damn I can’t wait until my favorite drinking buddy and I can revisit our days at Tony’s!

Awesome. As dumpy dives go in a dive-​tastic sliver of Portland, this is a rare gem. Right by Matador, et al; Tony’s is never full, incredibly cheap, and provides a pool table, nice vending machine… and friendly service. This bar belongs in a smaller town, really. The music coming from the jukebox is always classic rock and folk rock. It’s really a decent, relaxing place to get a $ 2 beer.
And the $ 2 beers on tap:
Rainier
Busch
PBR
High Life
They also have Hamm’s tallboys. This is a cheap beer Mecca. Couple this type of divey legitimacy with the fine quality service and you have my favorite «late night» bar to go to after Matador gets too full of d-​bags or my girlfriend gets too full of rum and cokes. You can sit here, relax, drink $ 2 beer, rock out to some John Denver, and wait for sleep to come.
Oh, it’s cash only, btw. Boo that.