Sellwood Saloon

This place is good if you just want to stop in for a drink. The food items available to order are microwaved. They do not have a full kitchen. So don't expect anything gourmet. It's more of a concession stand set up with food. The bartender was super sweet and I would give them 5 stars for customer service. Would revisit just for drinks.

My first and last time ever coming to the Sellwood Inn after my terrible experience. I came in with my friend to grab some drinks and play some pool. After about 45min we were told we needed to leave because of my friends service dog, a valid and trained dog. Bartender threatened to get the owner down, and said please do. She came down aggressive, rude and asking illegal questions. I recorded the interaction, and am disgusted to see that there are others have had other instances in the past with this location.https://youtu.be/bHzbUmHn3rs

I give the staff high marks.As a neighborhood bar, it's solid. Lot's of good seating and plenty of screens. 2 decent pool tables as well.The food: do not go here FOR the food. If you are in this bar and you get hungry, they can and will take care of you, and it's a decent experience. But if you want a bar that has "good" food, this is not the place. This is Portland so feel I can say with confidence: no one goes here for the food.

Best bar in Sellwood. Lots of great laughter on the patio, outdoor games, Tv and heaters on patio too! Great drinks, excellent service, great pool tables(when open), video poker exc! Must check out!

Who knew that Sellwood had so many dive bars? Not I, until recently, when someone set up a dive bar crawl in this little hood. But that's the beauty of life... you never stop learning. Sellwood Inn has a few things going for it, namely the large back patio and a nice bartender. Ok, well, and it has a fairly clean space inside, some video poker, a pool table, a knock-off version of Big Buck Hunter (called, like, Small Game Poacher or something), and some really interesting carved-wood benches. But I think a lot of other dives have the same components (save the crazy carved wood benches). The atmosphere is what you make of it... there's nothing here to entertain you aside from the machines and table mentioned above. Well unless there's some drunk, WT ladies in the bar fighting and causing drama... which at least on the night we were in actually happened. As far as drinks, the bar has an ok selection of pretty much mainstream big-brand booze. It's the standard minimal dive bar collection of spirit offerings. The beers on tap are better than your average dive, with some interesting micros on. It's no Horse Brass, but hey... it's the Sellwood Inn! The drink prices are not that cheap for being a dive bar - with call booze (like Tanqueray) in the $5.50 to $6 range, so that's kind of a downer. The food situation is grim. Don't count on getting anything here, especially late night. The Sellwood Inn doesn't quite have enough redeeming qualities as a bar to merit much in the way of a positive tome here, but the patio shows off its potential quite well, and I'm sure when summer rolls around, we'll be making a trip back to see how things run around there in the daytime.

Gave it 2 stars because the patio is nice. Unfortunately it smells like they have a sewer leak. The smell in the bar is overpowering and unbearable!!!

This place is amazing local dive bar. Best company, great atmosphere, super clean with a great patio!!

Well it's hard to write review for a person and a place that is so nice. Believe me that is the only reason I am giving 3 stars. I went in for a couple of reasons. First they are somehow listed as a place friendly to the Portland Timbers. I don't know what the prerequisite is for such a list but I assure you they did not meet the requirements. There was no one else there to watch the game. They had no idea there was a game on or what channel it was on. Here is the nice part. They were willing to put the game on the big screen TV and find it after a pretty exhaustive search of the channel guide. The drinks were cheaper than 5 dollars because it's seems to be Happy Hour all the time. 11-7 pm. I know this is a food site but I wouldn't know what to say about the food that was nice. Again I had read great reviews about the food and what a deal Saturday and Sunday. Well it's almost always the same menu. Written on a dry erase board. Very basic and very simple. Why you may ask? Simple there is no kitchen. The bartender is your drunk server and your waiter and your cook. All of these requirements make for you having to really grab the bartender to get their attention that you want something to eat. Here is where it was funny for me and the interaction earned her another star just for friendliness. Order an appetizer and suddenly the menu becomes more complicated. With these choices of sauce. These choices of bread. What kind of chips? Lol a simple menu becomes a multiple choice test. I wouldn't recommend this place for a night out or even looking for a good meal. In fact would only recommend it for the cheap drinks. Who doesn't like a cheap drink?

This place is awful. I came in last week and the bartender told me I could not have my service dog. When I got on here and read a comment that sounded just like my experience I decided it's time for me to take action. I am reporting this place today. She told me "A service dog is for someone who is like blind or something" so I guess she is certified to tell me if I am going to have a seizure?

The blonde lady told me that I could not have my service dog with me unless I was legally blind. Totally illegal and also publicly humiliated me. She didn't even ask why I needed a service dog. Mean lady at bar- she said that it was someone named Charles fault? So unprofessional and so rude.