Pacific Standard
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100 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232
Pacific Standard is the ground-floor cocktail bar of the KEX Portland hotel in the Central Eastside, opened in October 2022 by acclaimed bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler (formerly of Clyde Common) and partner Benjamin Amberg. The menu is built around radical transparency: the ABV of every drink is printed on the menu, running from 0% all the way to a 39% House Old Fashioned, so guests can make informed choices. A dedicated "Alcohol-Free Cocktails" section anchors the non-alcoholic program, alongside a "Low-Proof Cocktails on Draft" list and zero-proof beverages including kombucha, Leitz "Eins Zwei Zero" wine, and BERO non-alcoholic beer. The bar pours its own house-made non-alcoholic spirit and uses Wilderton Lustre in zero-proof cocktails like the Tiger Balm (pineapple, lime) and the Wandering Path (grapefruit, lemon, egg white). Food spans oysters, steak frites, and Morgenthaler's famed chocolate chip cookies.
What to order
- Tiger Balm
- Wandering Path
“Low-proof and alcohol-free cocktails are featured prominently on our menu, and the ABV of every drink is listed so that our guests have all of the necessary information to make informed choices.”— Jeffrey Morgenthaler, Pacific Standard co-founderJeffrey Morgenthaler, 2022 →