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Eastern Oregon's confined accept been wetting whistles with the best of them aback the 1870s mining era. And the attitude has not faded.
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Many still go out of their way to accumulate accession agog army happy, namely skiers and snowboarders.
Some who ride the slopes don't accede the day to be over until they carouse a algid one with accompany in the saloon. And agenda that a algid one doesn't accept to accommodate alcohol, because there are some boss accomplished baby accumulation sodas that do the trick, too.
But aback a booze packs some punch, one is the safest cardinal to consume. But aloof in case, this account of bristles top after-ski confined in Baker and Union counties has some blazon of abode abutting at hand.
To alpha the ski season, online readers will be voting for the best after-ski bar in Oregon. Following are the choices for eastern Oregon, with the activity continuing online for the best at Hood River/Mount Hood Meadows, Mount Hood/Government Camp and axial Oregon/Mount Bachelor.
Top vote collectors in the four areas will attempt for the best in the accompaniment honors. And do agenda that apres-ski these canicule is way added ancestors affable than aback it acclimated to beggarly guys quaffing shots of schnapps in advanced of the fireplace.
To be a acceptable apre-ski bar, you charge to absorb the beneath 21 army these days, too.
Here are the best apres-ski confined in eastern Oregon (and vote for your admired on OregonLive.com/Travel). The top vote getter will face off adjoin the best of axial Oregon, Meadows/Hood River and Mount Hood/Government Camp.
STARBOTTLE SALOON AT ANTHONY LAKES
The aboriginal stop for apres-ski fun in eastern Oregon is usually Starbottle Saloon, the bar at Anthony Lakes, which happens to action the best decline and cross-country skiing for abounding afar around.
As with your skiing, booty it accessible with booze burning up there, because the acclivity of 7,100 anxiety can do funny things to the body.
Starbottle takes its name from an old assurance acclimated as a cine prop in the 1969 film, "Paint Your Wagon,'' which chose Baker County as its primary alfresco location. It was a Western agreeable and featured two of Hollywood's better cowboy genre-stars, Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood.
Vibe: It's a affable place. Don't be afraid if a bounded strikes up a chat aloof to acquisition out who you are. The capital bar is over-21 only, but the affiliate is a cobweb fence that families can see one accession through and accept to the aforementioned music. Various ages can sit ancillary by ancillary at the alien edge, breadth the amber bag allowance abuts the bar.
When accession gets up to dance, it's a acceptable adventitious the aboriginal brace will be Creston and Dovey Shaw. He hits 92 this year and still skis, admitting he gave up ski convoying duties a brace years back.
Prices don't dip during after-ski hours, but they are appealing low to activate with anyway. Attending for $3.25 pints on Thursdays and $5.25 house-made hot buttered rums. The beer, of course, is mostly local, primarily Barley Brown's and Bull Ridge from Baker City, but additionally Prodigal Son from Pendleton, Terminal Gravity from Enterprise and Mutiny Brewing in Joseph.
Location: Starbottle Alehouse is in the lower akin of the Anthony Lakes ski lodge, which is about 30 afar northeast of Baker City; 47500 Anthony Lake Hwy., North Powder; 541-856-3277; anthonylakes.com.
Hours: Expect Starbottle to accessible about 10 a.m. and break accessible to 5-6 p.m., or aback the aftermost angel leaves. On alive music Saturdays the fun pushes 7 p.m., three hours afterwards the ski lift closes.
Menu: The admiral cafeteria is the capital dining room, confined ski abode aliment with beer and wine, while Starbottle bench appearance ablaze bites and snacks, additional the full-service bar. Popular aliment items in the alehouse are bootleg pizza (you don't get to order, you booty what's ready) and the pork sliders.
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Lodging: There is no auberge at the ski resort, but the ski breadth provides chargeless electrical bung ins for about a dozen RVs in the parking lot. Also, two yurts nestled amid the cross-country ski trails can be busy for brief stays.
1889 SALOON AT GEISER GRAND HOTEL, BAKER CITY
The stagecoach doesn't discharge cartage for brief stays anymore and the coffer beyond the artery doesn't get robbed, but you can be forgiven if your appointment to the 1889 Alehouse in Baker City harkens aback to those days.
That's the atmosphere association appetite to beforehand in one of Oregon's best affable and absorbing baby cities.
Eastern Oregon's affluent history of mining and ranching is accepted throughout Baker City. These days, those century-old barrio are anchored up and are home to avant-garde businesses. And, aloof to bang home the point to Portlanders, they accept calm plumbing, electricity and Wifi. You can additionally get a acceptable cup of coffee, a nice bottle of wine and Oregon's best microbrews.
Vibe: The Geiser Grand and its 1889 Alehouse are downtown, with the alehouse demography up the lower northwest bend of the hotel's capital level, giving its windows a nice appearance of the street.
Lovers of restored, celebrated hotels biking abundant distances aloof to break at the Geiser Grand, award their way on the old Oregon Trail by its replacement, Interstate 84. In winter, that includes a scattering of skiers from Portland, who adulation the crumb snow and backdrop up at Anthony Lakes, the bounded ski hill.
The alehouse is kid-friendly until 4 p.m., aback winter's after-ski hours bang in. Regardless, the youngsters can sit aloof a few accomplish admiral in an abutting allowance and accept to the Friday night fiddler adapted forth with their parents. Added nights' ball may affection piano, ball or banquet theater. Summer, of course, is prime season, but the auberge and alehouse are accessible 365 canicule a year
Bar appetizers are bisected bulk during the 4-6 blessed hour. The alehouse is busy with some old lath skis and snowshoes, additional reproductions of two archetypal Oregon ski photos by Ray Atkeson. Both were taken at Anthony Lakes in the backward 1940s, about 15 years afore the aboriginal lift was build.
Location: The 1889 Alehouse is downtown, about one mile west of Interstate 84 avenue No. 304; 1996 Capital St., 888-434-7374, geisergrand.com.
Hours: The alehouse is accessible 4-10 p.m. ('til midnight on weekends), but the aperture to the antechamber is accessible for a attending about at added hours.
Menu: The alternative of blessed hour appetizers includes fundido (crazy ambrosial broiled cheese dip with abode fabricated chips) and brittle blooming beans with honey alacrity sauce, both bisected priced at $4 during the after-ski hours. Micros at that time are $3 (favorites are Shredder's Aureate from Baker City and Blonde Bombshell from Redmond). The acute adept of accomplished Oregon alcohol will opt for a attempt of Stein beeline rye whiskey from Joseph ($7), the aboriginal eastern Oregon distillery aback Prohibition.
BARLEY BROWN'S BREW PUB, BAKER CITY
Some places accept hit the abracadabra formula. Barley Brown's Brew Pub is one of those places.
Try to get a bench at the Baker City battleground at 7 p.m. on a Friday and you acceptable will be waiting. Which isn't all that bad, because you could do that beyond the artery at the pub's new Tap House. The dining army thins out afterwards 8 p.m., so you won't charge to delay too long.
Barley Brown's packs in the army because it has acceptable food, abundant beer and is a association acquisition atom breadth accompany appear to say hi to friends. It's been that way appealing abundant aback the day Tyler Amber opened his restaurant/bar in 1998.
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Barley Brown's isn't absolutely a ski-type bar, but it takes its abode amid the best apres-ski confined in Oregon by allotment two beers with a ski theme. Tumble Off anemic ale was alleged by skiers for a advantaged run up at Anthony Lakes, while Shredders Aureate (American aphotic aureate ale) was alleged by a bounded snowboarder. Both are longtime staples, additional there is a melancholia Sled Wreck. Vibe: If you don't apperceive accession at Barley Brown's you anon will. A bisected dozen assemblage chatted me up during my contempo visit.
The business buys a accumulated division canyon to Anthony Lakes, so advisers who appetite to can ski up there. The capital brewer acclimated to run the ski boutique at the ski area.
Anthony Lakes carries bristles Barley Brown's beers on tap at the ski hill, but you'll charge to do your sampling in boondocks to ascertain the abounding lineup. The Tap Abode has 22 abode fabricated beers on tap, while the pub usually has accession four or bristles not accessible beyond the street.
The one snow-themed adornment is a sled blind from a wall, bought for a kids challenge but it didn't snow in boondocks that winter. The Tap Abode is for 21 years only, but the restaurant breadth of the pub is ancestors affable at all hours.
Location: The restaurant and pub is at 2190 Capital St. in city Baker City; 541-523-4266, barleybrownsbeer.com.
Hours: The restaurant pub is accessible 4-10 p.m. Monday to Saturday. The Tap Abode is accessible 2-10 p.m. and additionally apex to 4ish on Sundays. Hours tend to be adjustable in baby towns, depending on what's accident at the time
Menu: Bounded Larry Mack swears by the Flat Iron Steak ($20), from Country Natural Beef. "It's the best aged steak I've anytime had,'' he said. It usually comes with garlic mashed potatoes, additional a mix of veggies. In summer he drinks a Hot Blonde red ale, but in winter its the melancholia backup alleged the Joan ($4.35).
Lodging: The Geiser Grand Hotel, a abbreviate airing away, is declared aloft with its own 1889 Saloon. The Bridge Artery Inn (134 Bridger St., 541-523-6571) is the added city lodge. Amber said it's older, but accurately renovated. The Interstate 84 avenue No. 302 has best of the town's lodging. Ride with Baker City Cab, 541-523-6070. Check with the Baker County Chamber of Commerce at visitbaker.com or basecampbaker.com.
TEN DEPOT STREET, LA GRANDE
La Grande doesn't absolutely bedrock like Baker City, but it has one apres-ski bar account gluttonous out: Ten Annex Street.
You can't go amiss with a abode endemic and managed by one of the bristles lath associates at Anthony Lakes ski area, additional a bartender who splits time disposed at the ski breadth and again accepting the ski movies he shows anniversary winter Wednesday night bottomward in town. That's aback the bounded "ski club'' gathers.
The Ten Annex Ski Club is appealing informal, says Sandy Sorrels, buyer of the Ten Annex Artery restaurant and bar. The club doesn't aggregate dues, but there is an admission of sorts. Club associates affectation for photographs, which are again displayed in the bar.
Vibe: Don't go attractive for the annex if you're gluttonous out Ten Annex Street. That's on the adverse end of the street, by the railroad tracks, while the restaurant with the Annex name is on the Eastern Oregon University ancillary of town.
Ten Annex Artery is primarily a restaurant, with a bar as a alliance abode (during adapted hours and for adapted ages) for the academy community. Sorrels has been operating it aback 1988. Few would altercate it's the finest abode in town.
The bar itself is said to accept been alien about Cape Horn in the backward 19th century, afore actuality placed in assignment in Montana. Sorrels begin it for auction in Portland, again accumulated its nine pieces aback she opened the restaurant.
Location: Ten Annex Artery is in city La Grande, but 1.5 blocks west of the capital annoyance (Adams Avenue); aloof ask, because the locals apperceive how to acquisition it; 10 Annex St., 541-963-8766; tendepotstreet.com.
Hours: The bar opens at 4 p.m. and the dining allowance at 5 p.m. Dining goes until 10 p.m., with the bar confined later, according to the crowd. Both are bankrupt on Sunday.
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Menu: The Bar Bites change, but we ordered all bristles plates: dent dip, spaghetti, salad, potatoes and shrimp, an amazing bulk of aliment for $12.50 (each goes for $2.50 from 4-6 p.m. and afterwards 8 p.m.). Sorrels says she makes money off the deal, provided her assemblage buy abundant beer.
Lodging: The Royal Motor Inn (541-963-4154) is aural walking ambit downtown, but best motels are out on the capital Island Crossing freeway altering (I-84 exit 261). For a ride, alarm Arc Cab Co. at 541-663-9572. Check with Union County Tourism, visitlagrande.com.
LG BREWSKIS, UNION
Sometimes a name says it all. A beer and wine bar alleged LG Brewskis artlessly has to be on the account of top apres-ski confined in eastern Oregon. It's been accessible for a bit added than bristles years, on the apathetic alley amid Anthony Lakes and Union.
There it was, LG Brewskis, a alehouse alleged to allure the casual skier.
Vibe: LG Brewskis is for 21 and over at all times (because it's a Lottery outlet). The alehouse is apple-pie and tidy. It has a bank of beer posters and signs, brands that had been agitated at one time or another. In accession to the video poker machines, ball was accessible at one basin table and a shuffleboard table (the alone one in Union County). During acceptable acclimate there is a nice, belted patio out back.
Owner Leslie McMillian declared how she came up with the bar's name. LG is her beginning name initials, a appellation that has followed her through life. Regards brewskis, she said, aloof about every affair she anytime went to had been prefaced as "come on over and booze some brewskis."
She plays on the name in her tavern's logo, which appearance a mug of beer antic eyes, a mouth, skis and poles, with article that looks like the ski runs at Anthony Lakes bubbles out the top.
Location: LG Brewskis is in city Union at 267 S. Main; if you can't acquisition it, you're not thirsty; 541-562-6286; visitunionor.org.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 1-10 p.m. (later aback the antagonism is in town).
Menu: Bar aliment includes burgers, quesadillas and the like, but skiers authoritative their way into La Grande for dining afterwards usually opt for the Notcho Average Nachoes. LG says, "we do not skimp on the toppings.'' If you appetite to do some allusive shopping, article agnate at Mt. Bachelor goes for $15, while bottomward in Union its $8.75. LG doesn't apperception undercutting the Bend resort on its namesake beer, Red Chair Northwest Anemic Ale from Deschutes Brewing: $4 in Union, compared to $5.75 at Mount B.
Lodging: The Union Auberge (326 Capital St., 541-562-1200, thehistoricunionhotel.com) is aural walking distance. It's a adequate celebrated hotel, not absolutely to the aforementioned accepted as the Geiser Grand in Baker City, but still actual adequate for such a baby boondocks as Union (population 2,126).
(NOTE: Voting in this poll began aftermost winter.)
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