Dockside Saloon and Restaurant
{{Short description|Restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S.}}
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Dockside Saloon and Restaurant, or simply Dockside, is a diner and dive bar in Portland, Oregon, United States.{{Cite web |title=The Dockside Saloon Will Live Forever In A Slot In This Building, Just Like the House In Up |url=https://www.wweek.com/bars/2016/02/10/the-dockside-saloon-will-live-forever-in-a-slot-in-this-building-just-like-the-house-in-up/ |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=Willamette Week |date=10 February 2016 |language=en |archive-date=2020-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023004205/https://www.wweek.com/bars/2016/02/10/the-dockside-saloon-will-live-forever-in-a-slot-in-this-building-just-like-the-house-in-up/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=In 1994, Garbage Dumped at a Portland Bar Helped Solve a Notorious FBI Case |url=https://www.wweek.com/culture/2018/05/22/in-1994-garbage-dumped-at-a-portland-bar-helped-solve-a-notorious-fbi-case/ |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=Willamette Week |date=23 May 2018 |language=en |archive-date=2022-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509190920/https://www.wweek.com/culture/2018/05/22/in-1994-garbage-dumped-at-a-portland-bar-helped-solve-a-notorious-fbi-case/ |url-status=live }} Established in 1986, the nautical-themed, New American restaurant is known for being where incriminating evidence against Tonya Harding related to the assault of Nancy Kerrigan was dumped in 1994.
Dockside was co-owned by Terry Peterson and Kathy Peterson, until they sold the business to Alex Bond in 2023. The bridge-themed menu features classic breakfast options as well as burgers, sandwiches, and tacos for lunch. Sports memorabilia is displayed in the bar's interior.
Description
Dockside is a diner and dive bar{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=Michael |date=2015-11-05 |title=Help name Portland's best dive bar |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/dining/2015/11/you_call_that_a_dive_this_is_a.html |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=The Oregonian |language=en |archive-date=2022-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614132428/https://www.oregonlive.com/dining/2015/11/you_call_that_a_dive_this_is_a.html |url-status=live }} on Front Avenue, in northwest Portland's Northwest District.{{Cite web |last=Bamman |first=Mattie John |date=2016-02-11 |title=Grüner's Epic Burger Reborn {{!}} Massive Development to Engulf The Dockside Saloon |url=https://pdx.eater.com/2016/2/11/10966470/gruners-burger-now-at-loyal-legion-the-dockside-saloon-engulfed-by-business-park |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Eater Portland |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401231227/https://pdx.eater.com/2016/2/11/10966470/gruners-burger-now-at-loyal-legion-the-dockside-saloon-engulfed-by-business-park |url-status=live }} As a result of the owners' refusing to sell their land to developers, the restaurant is surrounded by new development.{{Cite web |last=Gallivan |first=Joseph |date=2018-04-22 |title=The success of Adpearance |url=https://www.biztrib.com/news/the-success-of-adpearance/article_1dec1cb3-ccc7-555a-abe7-3501b973fbd4.html |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Business Tribune |publisher=Pamplin Media Group |language=en}}
The nautical-themed restaurant serves New American cuisine across a bridge-themed menu.{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=Michael |date=2019-02-28 |title=These are the 40 best inexpensive restaurants in the Portland metro area |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/02/d0860094388477/these-are-the-40-best-inexpensive-restaurants-in-the-portland-metro-area.html |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=The Oregonian |language=en |archive-date=2020-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107230122/https://www.oregonlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/02/d0860094388477/these-are-the-40-best-inexpensive-restaurants-in-the-portland-metro-area.html |url-status=live }} The breakfast menu has included bacon, biscuits, buttermilk pancakes, corned beef hash, eggs, English muffins, and sausage. Terry's Famous Scramble has eggs, bacon, ham, sausage, onions, tomatoes, green peppers, mushrooms, and Tillamook cheddar cheese.
Portland Monthly says, "With elevated highway lanes as a backdrop and a ramshackle exterior, it might be easy to pass over this diner. But loyal customers fill booths of the cozy interior for classic breakfasts piled high with hash browns and lunches of burgers, sandwiches, and tacos while sports and news play on one of the many screens."{{Cite web |title=Dockside Saloon & Restaurant {{!}} Restaurant Listing |url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/restaurants/dockside-saloon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001013505/https://www.pdxmonthly.com/restaurants/dockside-saloon |archive-date=2020-10-01 |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=Portland Monthly |language=en-US}}
The restaurant's menus recount Dockside's connection to assault of Nancy Kerrigan.{{Cite web |date=2018-04-19 |title=Slabtown Cannabis Proprietors |url=https://www.wweek.com/cannabis/2018/04/19/slabtown-cannabis-proprietors/ |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Willamette Week |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-05-10 |title=You Might Need a Little Help Finding the Dive Bars in Slabtown. They’re Worth the Search. |url=https://www.wweek.com/finder/2023/05/10/you-might-need-a-little-help-finding-the-dive-bars-in-slabtown-theyre-worth-the-search/ |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Willamette Week |language=en |archive-date=2023-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526004804/https://www.wweek.com/finder/2023/05/10/you-might-need-a-little-help-finding-the-dive-bars-in-slabtown-theyre-worth-the-search/ |url-status=live }} Dockside also displays sports memorabilia, including shoes which belonged to LaMarcus Aldridge, Bob Lanier, and Shaquille O'Neal, as well as Clyde Drexler's jersey.{{Cite web |last=Henson |first=Joaquin M. |title=No consultations for Tonya film |url=https://www.philstar.com/sports/2017/04/06/1684796/no-consultations-tonya-film |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Philstar.com |archive-date=2018-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031125501/https://www.philstar.com/sports/2017/04/06/1684796/no-consultations-tonya-film |url-status=live }}
History
{{See also|Assault of Nancy Kerrigan}}
Chef Terry Peterson and Kathy Peterson were co-owners of the business, which was established in 1986 in an unoccupied building which was constructed in 1925.{{Cite journal |last=Goldfield |first=Robert |date=April 7, 2002 |title=Headlines aside, tavern offers lack of pretense |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/04/08/focus4.html |journal=Portland Business Journal |access-date=June 14, 2022 |archive-date=April 26, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030426083204/http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/04/08/focus4.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2017-12-08 |title=The Dockside, the Dumpster and Tonya Harding |url=https://www.koin.com/news/the-dockside-the-dumpster-and-tonya-harding/ |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=KOIN.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106190815/https://www.koin.com/news/the-dockside-the-dumpster-and-tonya-harding/ |url-status=live }} Previously, the building had housed Dot's Sternwheeler and What's Up Doc.{{Cite web |last=Gallivan |first=Joseph |date=2018-12-10 |title=Four tales of Old Portland Holdouts |url=https://www.biztrib.com/news/four-tales-of-old-portland-holdouts/article_7101e0d7-ea17-5596-9875-66ec4cf53f2d.html |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Business Tribune |language=en}}
In 1994, Kathy Peterson discovered incriminating evidence related to the assault of Nancy Kerrigan in the restaurant's dumpster.{{Cite news |last=Brennan |first=Christine |last2=Buckley |first2=Stephen |date=1994-02-05 |title=IOC MAINTAINS WATCH, BUT KEEPS ITS DISTANCE |language=en-US |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1994/02/05/ioc-maintains-watch-but-keeps-its-distance/c4d2d13f-6260-411e-a882-66f32690d060/ |access-date=2023-06-09 |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite web |last=Balzar |first=John |date=1994-02-04 |title=COMMENTARY : Story Is So Big It's Right Out of Dumpster |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-04-sp-19048-story.html |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405182905/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-04-sp-19048-story.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Tonya Harding Is Back—on the Ice, and on the Silver Screen |url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2017/12/tonya-harding-is-back-on-the-ice-and-on-the-silver-screen |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Portland Monthly |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526153221/https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2017/12/tonya-harding-is-back-on-the-ice-and-on-the-silver-screen |url-status=live }} The Dockside has been used as a film site multiple times, including for The Hunted and Maverick.
Reception
In 2013, Dockside won in the Best Menu Brag category of Willamette Week{{'s}} annual "Best of Portland" readers' poll.{{Cite web |date=2013-07-24 |title=Best of Portland 2013: Best Bites, Sips and Puffs |url=https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20927-best-of-portland-2013-best-bites-sips-and-puffs.html |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Willamette Week |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818111932/https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20927-best-of-portland-2013-best-bites-sips-and-puffs.html |url-status=live }} In 2017, Suzette Smith of the Portland Mercury wrote:{{Blockquote|Dockside Saloon is in a really, really weird location off NW Naito—across from the sad, isolated riverfront condos that are always in some state of industrial handrail construction turmoil. Dockside either once was (or likely still is) the hangout spot for many blue-collar factory worker types, but it wasn’t very busy when I went in. Signature signs of lovable, eccentric bar management are present: saran-wrapped cookies for sale, a whole candy jar full of nothing but Doublemint gum, and a bathroom that doesn't lock (in fact, it’s a saloon-door situation). The thing about Dockside is that, at the end of the day, you get the happy hour clam chowder and when it comes it’s basically four dollars’ worth of soup for $3.95. You order the Caesar salad and it's a four-dollar salad. The food is fine—probably a step more flavorful than typical bar fare—but there isn’t a 'deal' feeling to it.{{Cite news|url=https://www.portlandmercury.com/happy-hour-guide2017/2017/03/15/18893322/happy-hour-guide-northwest|title=Happy Hour Guide: Northwest|date=March 15, 2017|accessdate=July 3, 2022|work=Portland Mercury|first=Suzette|last=Smith|archive-date=September 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914175820/https://www.portlandmercury.com/happy-hour-guide2017/2017/03/15/18893322/happy-hour-guide-northwest|url-status=live}}}}Michael Russell included Dockside in The Oregonian{{'s}} 2019 lists of the 40 and 10 "best inexpensive restaurants" in the Portland metropolitan area and downtown Portland, respectively.{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=Michael |date=2019-03-18 |title=Downtown Portland's 10 best inexpensive restaurants |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/03/14e8cd1f65843/downtown-portlands-10-best-inexpensive-restaurants.html |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=The Oregonian |language=en |archive-date=2020-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107232539/https://www.oregonlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/03/14e8cd1f65843/downtown-portlands-10-best-inexpensive-restaurants.html |url-status=live }}
See also
{{Portal|Food|Oregon}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category| Dockside Saloon and Restaurant}}
- {{Official website|http://docksidesaloon.com}}
- {{YouTube|id=NuD2kDC-Szw|title=The Dockside, the Dumpster and Tonya Harding}}, KOIN
- {{TripAdvisor|d462795}}
{{Northwest District, Portland, Oregon}}
{{Restaurants in Portland, Oregon}}
Category:1986 establishments in Oregon
Category:Diners in Portland, Oregon
Category:Dive bars in Portland, Oregon
Category:New American restaurants in Portland, Oregon
Category:Restaurants in Northwest District, Portland, Oregon