The Eagle Eye Tavern

The Eagle Eye Tavern is one of my favorite places in all of Portland. The vibe is cool and unpretentious, the drinks are delicious, and the staff is always friendly. Eagle Eye is a great place to become a regular, and bartender, Anessa, always plans out ways to make each visit special. (Adult coloring, anyone? She has coloring sheets and crayons!) This is a bar where an effort is made to remember your name, even if you are an occasional patron. (Although, you and your friends will most likely want to become regulars!)

This is my favorite bar! I love everything about it from the bartenders to the regular patrons! Karaōke is great, stand up night is fun, pool is cheap and drinks are killer! I highly recommend this bar if you like laid back cool people and amazing atmosphere! Anessa and Sabrina are badass bitches who kick butt at their jobs!

I love this place and really don’t have anything to say that hasn’t already been. In addition to great service, fun karaōke and fantastic bartenders; the Eagle Eye has given so much back to the Lents community and continues to support its growth. Check this place out, and be sure to have Anessa make you one of her specialty cocktails.

I literally got 86’d for reading a book. They said I was falling asleep because I was reading. Apparently you can’t be literate in this bar. I wish I could give zero stars.
UPDATE: Because I gave a bad review they are now hounding me on social media and saying I’m a drunk and a terrible person. I’m seriously thinking about getting a lawyer for «defamation of character». This is all because I wrote them a bad, but well deserved, review.
UPDATE: (Three weeks later) I am literally being called a «rapist» on the comments of my Facebook review by this bar, or someone at this bar (It’s a Facebook account with no friends that started that day that they wrote the comments), for writing them a bad review. AVOID THIS BAR AT ALL COSTS!

Anessa and shawna were amazing bartenders! Great service and great attitude. Im a local and will be back!

I give this place 3 stars with regret. I really wish it would have been a 5 star review. God knows SE Portland needs all the good bars with decent food it can get. Sad to say this place just didn’t really live up to the 4 and 5 star reviews I found. Okay service and crappy, what seems to be frozen food, chicken tenders, tots and such. Someday there will be something amazing in this area. #wishful

It’s your standard neighborhood dive bar full of hipsters and yuppies who think they are beer snobs. Service is always decent, it’s just not so much my kind of place. But it might be yours! It’s not a bad place and drinks are fair priced. Never tried their food, so I can’t speak to that.

Went to this spot when my mom was in town and it was actually awesome. We got 6 shots of patron and 2 beers and it was about 60 $ so I would say it was pretty reasonable. It’s a nice chill spot down the street from my house, I would say check it out for sure. Love the vibe.

Stopped in tonight for a quick drink and was totally entertained and treated like a regular by the bartender on duty, who just so happened to be working on her birthday and still went out of her way to make me welcome. Great place to wind down after a long day! Thanks for a great first experience Anessa, and have a great birthday!

Great spot in Lents! Good beer & local booze selection. They have a variety of entertainment options — comedy, trivia, music. Definitely a place to stop in when around!

This place is awesome! My boyfriend and I come here at least once a week to meet up with friend or just grab a drink the two of us. The severs are so friendly and the atmosphere is really relaxed. They always have great local beers on tap and a full bar. They have karaōke nights, open mic nights, pool and other games. They have great bar food and a Great Authentic Mexican place next door that you can bring food over from. If you live in the area or are passing through definitely a must to try out!

This is a great place to drink with homeless people. When they aren’t burglarizing your car in the dimly lit parking lot out back

This is the sister bar to the Lions Eye. You’ll find the same friendly service, local spirits and a decent tap list. Some answers to your questions: the «scene «is mostly locals to Lents and a little rowdy. This is a good place for groups but you can go on your own (especially on the weekends) and meet fun people. Yes, there’s decent food, no it’s not a dinner spot.
This is not a karaōke joint for serious karaōke people, but a karaōke night with your friends where you can mess up and be cheered on. (Fri and sat) Also, there’s outdoor seating on 92^nd ave.

Super friendly bartenders; owner Erin is kickass. Local spirits, always a cocktail special, always a cider on tap (which I appreciate). Karaōke is fun (though a larger selection of songs would be GREAT!). I’ve never had bad service.
On my anniversary I facebooked them to let them know I’d be bringing a largish group of people, and asked if they’d be willing to make a signature drink for our anniversary. When we arrived, the bartender had decorated the specials board with my and my husband’s names and made THREE signature drinks all having to do with love and stuff. It was great.
And I would suggest that if you did have bad service, contact the owner and let her know so she can deal with the issue.

You know that saying «You cant make chicken salad out of chicken shit?» Well, the owners are making me think that might be a false axiom. They took a turd, slapped some paint on it, and slowly but surely the place is starting to become a pretty cool canteen.
The atmosphere is a sizable improvement. Dimly lit, candles, dark red and burgundys walls, and vintage bulbs adorn the inside. The place has a rockin juke box which has a great selection. Good pooltables and lots of TV’s behind the bar.
The owners have excised the video poker and cut out most of the 92^nd riff raff that rambles and tramps in. The clientele is mostly mid 20’s to late 30’s. Gone are the days of 74 year old homeless sailors and destitute weirdos. It always feels good to walk in and know I am the smartest person in the building, but the patrons arent frat boys, thugs, or street toughs.
The karaōke absolutely sucks. For some alien rationale, their song selection is very limited. They have many popular artists, but literally zero of their known songs. Its a bunch of b side rock, country no namers, classic rock artists comeback albums, and Keisha. WTF? This place would be a homerun if they updated their karaōke.
The cuisine? My friends Joey and Troy love it, which means its greasy as all fuck and may give you 2 heart attacks on the way up to sing Poker Face. That being said, its a kind lubricious grease goodness that transports me back to my college days at 4 am on a Tuesday.
The bartenders are great. Very fast service and I have seen them handle a few drunks with a level of patience and serenity that would make Mother Theresa proud. The drinks are stiff and cheap, much like the baronesses and noble women who frequent this saloon, which is my kind of place!
If you desired a chic upscale hostelry to sip on signature cocktails and engage in highbrow conversation and repartee, you are a fucking idiot for walking into the Eagle Eye. However, for a typical Portland dive, this place has its charm. The owners are making a lot of improvements and have really turned the tides. After they get the karaōke sorted out, this place will get 5 stars.

I expect to up my review as time goes on. The owners have slowly but surely cleaned up this place and made it the nicest place to grab a beer in Lents. There’s sidewalk seating, a welcoming feeling to the front and helpful staff inside. The food choices are still pretty basic and consist mostly of things from a fryer, and the beer selections are varied and decently chosen.
The place is still a bit shabby, but is getting better everytime I go in. I’m happy to have them as a neighborhood bar.

Our first visit was on a totally random Wednesday night: Cute bartender cranking out wicked specialty cocktails that she seem to have made up on the fly. Clientele was a mix of hipsters, punks, and less than fashionable ordinary folks, but they all were friendly & jovial. Whole bar rocked down to the endless Pat Benatar tracks (busted you lip syncing, dude leaning on the pool table!), and there was Olympic figure skating on the large TVs. Bathroom was absurdly clean, and I felt like I was in the Portland-​version of Cheers!
Buuuuuut …it could have just been those wicked drinks.

Construction is near completion so here I am with an update.
Erin Wagner is a miracle worker. She took an eyesore dive with sub par (and cold in the middle) food and transformed it into a real neighborhood tavern with what seemed like the sheer force of her will and charisma — but also a few gallons of paint, fresh hot fryer oil, personable staff and generally caring about this place and its customers.
The Eagle Eye is now my favorite bar. It has my favorite tater tots, my favorite chicken strips, my favorite juke box, my favorite karaōke, my favorite selection of local beers and spirits, my favorite bartenders, and my favorite fellow bar flies.
In just a few months, it’s reached the status and quality of classic Portland bars like the Triple Nickle and the ‘Vern — only slightly newer and shinier possibly more than slightly better.

Here’s a shameless plug for my favorite neighborhood hole in the wall dive, the Eagle Eye. I rang in the new year there. I woke on my couch with my contact lenses still in and one ugly hangover nastily holding any carpe diem from my grasp. I have the Eagle Eye to thank for this. There was also a hot pink Frisbee, an Aerobie to be precise, found on my front lawn. I don’t know that the Eagle Eye had anything to do with that.
The pros and cons could go either way.
The bar takes up a space that looks a little unfinished and a bit rough around the edges, and you may find that charming or sloppy or something in between, but in any case it’s quite in keeping with the ‘hood.
They show Blazers games. Don’t know if they just show the ones on KGW or they have Comcast, but I think it’s the latter. Perhaps you still aren’t convinced about the Blazers, or you’re still holding a grudge from the Jail Blazers era. You’re a dinosaur, by the way, congrats on that. Roar.
They have karaōke on Saturdays. Lots of country choices, but quite a few fun pop songs, too. If karaōke always steers you away, well, at least it’s only one day a week. Unless it happens to be New Year’s Eve, when I most definitely sang something. Just be happy I don’t carry a microphone and an amp in my purse, OK?
They have cider on tap. Also, beers. And hard alcohol, though not on tap. It’s a bar. Do you like bars? Then try it.

Very pleasantly surprised! I had driven by here over the last few months, peaking in seeing remodeling going on, but couldn’t imagine it was really my scene. The other night I thought «what the hell» and stopped in. Loved it!
The inside I would say is modern in décor. There is a computerized juke box, a pool table, pin ball machine, plus a few others I didn’t pay close attention to.
Staff here were warm and welcoming. They offer numerous local beers and liquors, which our bartender had great suggestions.
Friday and Saturday have kareoke in the evenings, but we were here on a Monday… and I would describe it as «chill.»
Definitely glad I stopped and will be back.