Brix Tavern
| Brix Tavern | |
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 The restaurant's exterior in 2020 | |
 Interactive map of Brix Tavern | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | April 22, 2011 |
| Owner | Urban Restaurant Group |
| Food type | |
| Location | 1338 Northwest Hoyt Street, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, 97209 |
| Coordinates | 45°31′38″N 122°41′05″W / 45.527087°N 122.684856°W |
Seating capacity | 150 (Portland) |
Other locations | |
| Website | brixtavern |
Brix Tavern is a small chain of restaurants in the Portland metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The flagship restaurant operates in northwest Portland's Pearl District and additional locations are in Hillsboro and Tualatin. Previously, the business also operated in Keizer.
The 150-seat restaurant in Portland was opened by Urban Restaurant Group in April 2011 and offers American cuisine such as wood-fired pizzas, rotisserie meats, and other comfort foods. The restaurant has hosted and participated in special events, and has received a generally positive reception; compliments are most often given for happy hour menu options.
Description
[edit]Brix Tavern is a small chain of restaurants serving American cuisine in the Portland metropolitan area. The 150-seat flagship restaurant operates in northwest Portland's Pearl District.[1] There are also locations in Hillsboro's Reeds Crossing neighborhood and in Tualatin's Tualatin Commons.[2] The Hillsboro location has a wrap-around patio and a private room for events.[3] Previously, the business also operated a shopping plaza in Keizer called Keizer Station.[4]
According to Portland Monthly, Brix is a New American restaurant and the Pearl District's "game-time go-to" with 30 craft beers on tap, 20 television sets, a billiard table, two dart boards, and a happy hour menu available for six hours each day.[5] Erin DeJesus of Eater Portland classified Brix as a lounge and sports bar.[6] Snooker was available for free, as of 2015.[7]
Menu
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One restaurant guide has described Brix Tavern as a "warm, contemporary" restaurant and bar serving "a unique collection of enduring American comfort food and cocktails enhanced with only the freshest, locally sourced ingredients".[8] The menu focuses on wood-fired pizzas and rotisserie meats[6] but has offered options including whole chicken or grilled beef platters with four sauces (including béarnaise), prime rib, fried chicken, roasted halibut,[9] sandwiches,[3] soups, salads,[10] and truffled macaroni and cheese.[11] The brunch menu, which is available at weekends, offers a "slight Southern twist" and includes chicken and waffles, biscuits and gravy with maple sausage, eggs Benedict, shrimp and grits, mimosas, and complimentary cinnamon sugar doughnuts drizzled with chocolate and raspberry.[12][13]
The dessert menu has included a Heath bar brownie, crème brûlée, and a blackberry buttermilk pie.[9] The happy hour menu included calamari, pizza Margherita, and seared yellowfin tuna with avocado, corn, tomato, and wasabi mayonnaise, as well as the "kicky" Brix Mule with bourbon or vodka, as of 2019.[14] Other drinks on the happy hour menu have included the Huckleberry Gimlet with huckleberry vodka and blackberry syrup, the Backyard Margarita with muddled Oregon berries, and the Red Neck Iced Tea with bourbon whiskey.[9]
In 2013, David Sarasohn of The Oregonian said, "Brix finds other ways to keep the happiness flowing outside designated hours, too. On Thursdays it offers a three-course meal plus cocktail for $30, and every night features a surprise $3 brown bag canned beer special."[9] The Portland restaurant offered half-priced bottles of wine on Thursdays, as of 2016.[15]
History
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The original Brix Tavern opened on April 22, 2011,[6] in a space that was previously occupied by an Italian-Mediterranean restaurant called Olea. Urban Restaurants, Inc. had applied for Brix Tavern's liquor license by November 2010.[1] Other restaurants within Urban Restaurant Group include Bartini, Carlita's, Swank and Swine, and Urban Fondue as of 2017.[16][17] In 2018,[18] Brix Tavern was featured on "Winner Winner Free Dinner", the second episode of the first season of the Food Network's television show Big Bargain Eats.[19]
Brix's second location opened in Tualatin, in the space that previously housed Hayden's Lakefront Grill.[2][20][21] Staff at Hayden's were invited to work at Brix. A third location opened in Keizer, in the space that previously housed Bargarten Bavarian Social Haus, in 2023.[4][10] The Keizer location has since closed.[22][23] Brix's Hillsboro location opened on June 26, 2026.