If you’re looking for the quintessential Portland experience, I highly suggest you go live like a local at Bar 3728. Just around the corner (literally like 4 houses) from the coolest slice of Division Street (think 2-5 minute walk to Blue Star Doughnuts, Salt &Straw, CIBO Pizza, Stumptown Coffee, Ava Gene’s, Carter and Rose, Village Merchants and even a 7-11 ) and down the street from Hawthornes best ( think 5 minute walk to Hawthorne Theater, Powell’s Books, New Seasons Market, McMenamins Baghdad Theater and Pub, Fried Egg I’m In Love...and way too much more to mention in a blurb!). It’s the ideal Cool Portland Neighborhood. 100%, unadulterated, bona-fide Portland at its best!
Linda and her sweet sidekick Whiskey the dog made me feel right at home. Linda is friendly but genuinely respects your space. And the daylight basement space she offers up in her home is cozy, eclectic, fun and warm. Probably more “Portland” than Portland itself! I actually feel pretty lucky to have found this place, especially since she hooked me up last minute.
Bar 3728 had everything I needed and more... I especially loved the fireplace/furnace heater Linda has down there. That, along with the vintage wall lights lined along the walls, the big screen surround sound TV with all the channels, a fun bar-like kitchenette with all the essentials, and an inviting, large, private bathroom with a big rain shower head, my stay was one that I didn’t want to leave. Really. I told Linda that I want to live in her daylight basement! However, now that I’ve discovered one of PDX’s most amazing AirBnB secrets... i WILL be back!
Thanks again Linda and Whiskey!