North Portland beer bar ‘Tiny Bubble Room’ opens

Tiny Bubble Room

A new beer and whiskey bar from the owners of Roscoe’s and Saraveza will feature 30 drafts, cajun food and a sushi lounge

If comfortably dark bars that you can sink back into a corner booth with a pint in hand are your thing, then the Tiny Bubble Room is for you. From Jeremy Lewis and Quyen Ly, the owners of Roscoe’s, Saraveza, and the late Steinhaus, comes the latest unassuming craft beer destination along the barren strip of N. Lombard St. in the Kenton neighborhood - Tiny Bubble Room.

Tiny Bubble Room

a vintage vibe meets upscale drink list

One of Portland’s most anticipated new beer bars since we previewed the Tiny Bubble Room in March, the former home of Lung Fung Restaurant & Tiny Bubble Room Lounge has been transformed with all of it’s old Portland charm intact, but with much more craft beer. Though it has a separate identity, the Tiny Bubble Room may be more accurately described as Roscoe’s North. If you have discovered that outer southeast Portland institution, you know it for it’s lived in dive bar vibe, cajun food and incredible rotating taplist. What looks seedy on the outside just adds more culture to the premium beer and spirits list you’d expect to find at a more slick and modern taproom in a the bottom of a new condo development.. The same can be said for Tiny Bubble Room, only with some significant features that Roscoe’s doesn’t have.

Inside the two roomed brick block of a building usually found on busy thoroughfares is as impressive a beer list as you will find in Portland. As of writing it’s filled with dependable beer geek favorites like Pliny the Elder, and Fresh Hop Pallet Jack IPA, plus vintage rarities like Cantillon Kriek, Dogfish Head 2020 Olde School Barleywine, and Firestone Walker 2013 Velvet Merkin. The taplist includes a draft whiskey cocktail, and is complimented by a cooler of select bottles and cans and a large hard liquor selection. When Tasty n Daughters and Tasty n Sons closed earlier this year, Tiny Bubble Room purchased their impressive stock of spirits that includes over 100 whiskeys, bourbons and rye’s from Japan, Europe and America.

Another bonus, although TBR is a dark loungey space with a throwback Hollywood 60’s vibe to it, they have added roll-up doors that escape to a spacious parking lot patio. The parking lot is so huge there is still a dozen or more parking spaces and room for very spaced out tables outside. The project here is ongoing, as TBR plans to retrofit shipping containers that open to reveal covered heated seating, and by next summer an outdoor bar in another container

The building is split into two parts, the majority of the floor plan for the black leather bar with one tv and seven red leather booths that line the room. The other third of the space is not open yet, but will involve renovating the more intimate and woody section accessible through it’s own doorway via the main entrance. This cozy space was the original Tiny Bubble Lounge in the Lung Fung Chinese space, it will be remodeled into Musashi Sushi. Similar to their setup at Roscoe’s, owners Quyen and Lewis also operate a sushi restaurant which does business separately but with access to the sister businesses booze and taplist or vice versa the bar to the sushi menu. Musashi Sushi is still an estimated 6 weeks out from opening.

Tiny Bubble Room is now soft opened at 2025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR 97217 with limited COVID hours of 3-10pm, 7-days a week. Minors are welcome until 8pm. Check out the full food menu and updated taplist at https://tinybubbleroom.com/

Originally published October 26th, 2020, updated February 25, 2021