First look at John’s Marketplace Beaverton bottleshop/taproom
As exclusively first reported by New School Beer in September 2022, Portland-based bottleshop/beer bar John’s Marketplace has opened their third location in Beaverton, Oregon. Famed for their expansive, grocery store style selection of beers, wines, ciders, (and a few seltzers and other NA offerings), John’s Marketplace is one of the premiere destinations for packaged products.
John’s Marketplace was first opened in SW Portland’s Multnomah Village neighborhood in 1999. What originally was more of a grocery store, slowly expanded into beer and wine store over many years before fully leaving produce and other major grocery items behind. In the earlier days of craft beer, the original John’s was one of two nationally known Portland destinations to stock up on local, import, rare and mainstream beers. Experienced distribution/wholesale veterans, the brothers Rob Petros and Paul Petros purchased the business in 2016 and have spent the last 7 years refreshing the original space adding a bar and grill and outside patio. Their big move came in 2020 when they opened the second John’s Marketplace on SE Powell Blvd. in a new construction with their largest selection and more contemporary decor and equipment yet.
For the John’s Marketplace Beaverton location they have partially returned to their original SW Multnomah Village location taphouse model with their own grill. The new John’s Powell Blvd. location features a full food cart pod and bar window to the beer garden, Beaverton opts for it’s own kitchen serving a similar menu to the one in Multnomah Village. What’s different is the bar is separated from the rest of the bottleshop instead of sharing one large room.
The look is slightly more stylized, with hexagon tiled back bar and 18 drafts. The kitchen, features a menu of smashburgers, and hot and cold sandwiches like a fresh BLT and an appropriately messy and delicious Philly cheesesteak with pickled peppers. Against one wall a faux grassy feature with beer signage and a single flat screen for sports, suggesting a British-style sports bar decor. A glass wall and doorway opens out the side of the bar leads to an open air partially walled in patio. Outside the cedar slab picnic tables were so freshly completed they may give you splinters, and a pile of bark and chips was shedding on the ground below the center live edge slab. The original plan called for a cover and heaters, but that may still be in the works.
The bottleshop side features 100’ ft. of cooler space wrapping the store floor but was still in need of categorization. If you know your beer, you can find the clockwise separation between imports, to non-alcoholic, to non-Oregon out of state beer, then alphabetical Oregon beers, followed by gluten-free and hard seltzer. Near the front right of the glassy storefront is a very solid wine selection, and two the left a half circular info and check-out counter where the beer/wine stewards can direct you. Around the center, steel wire dry storage shelving stocks the back-up bottles and cans while John’s signature beer signage and neons grace the walls above the beer aisles. Overall, the selection is about 10% smaller than John’s Marketplace on Powell and 20% smaller than Multnomah Village locations, but it’s still massive and the largest selection by far of craft in the Beaverton area.
John’s Marketplace is located in the Hall Street Center shopping plaza next to one of Beaverton’s best restaurants DeCarli Italian, in a space that was formerly Chelsea Audio Video. It is a short walk from the Beaverton Transit Center, .4 miles from the Patricia Reser Center For The Arts and the new BinaryBrewing. Just a few blocks further is Loyal Legion and Ex Novo Brewing’s Beaverton locations.
John’s Marketplace - Hall
3700 SW Hall Blvd
Beaverton, OR 97005
10 am - 10 pm Daily
(503) 747-2793
