Dixie Tavern is a bar and nightclub in Portland, Oregon, United States. It began operating in the northwest Portland part of the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood in 2005.
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Dixie Tavern is a bar and nightclub in Portland, Oregon, United States. It began operating in the northwest Portland part of the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood in 2005. Dixie Tavern is a two-level bar and nightclub at the intersection of 3rd Avenue and Couch Street in the northwest Portland part of the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood. It is owned by Concept Entertainment Group. Portland Monthly has described the venue as a "rock & roll tavern" with live music, multiple bars, and regular 1980s-themed nights. Willamette Week has said Dixie Tavern has an "urban cowgirl" theme and is best known for "female patrons dancing on the bar" as well as goldfish races, during which a water gun is used to get a goldfish to swim to the finish line. The Portland Mercury's Alex Zielinski has described the venue as a "country bar" with security staff and without a strict dress code. The venue hosts themed parties and hosts dancing to country and rock music. In 2010, Kate Loftesness of The Oregonian wrote, "Dixie Tavern bills itself as a rock club even though its most prominent features are female bartenders in belly shirts and Daisy Dukes dancing on the bar, bras hanging from the ceiling, beer cans and taxidermied animals." In 2017, the newspaper's Grant Butler said, "This Southern-fried rock and roll bar... is known for female bartenders who dance on the countertops to Bon Jovi and Lynyrd Skynyrd - very "Coyote Ugly," circa 2000. Dixie Tavern may not be trendy, but it's one of Old Town's most-popular bars." Co-owned by Dan Lenzen and Jeff Plew, Dixie Tavern opened in 2005, in the space previously occupied by Cobalt Lounge. In 2020, Portland Monthly's Margaret Seiler said Dixie Tavern was "one of the few 21st-century new businesses outside of the South to use Dixie in its name". The bar hosted goldfish races weekly, as of 2010. In 2011, out of 125 bars for which complaints have been received by the city about nuisance, Dixie was one of the eight sent to the Time, Place, and Manner h