It’s time to choose the best of Portland in the Phoenix’s annual BEST awards.
If you’ve been to a Scratchpad reading you know our venue is something special: as the sign over the door says, Mama’s mission is “beer, friends, music, prose.” They could’ve added “a sense of community, good conversation, belly laughs, a superstar chihuahua,” but that would have meant wrapping the signage around the side of the building.
Anyway, Scratchpad wouldn’t exist without Mama’s CrowBar, so if you’re a fan of the series — or if you simply like knowing that there’s a place on Munjoy Hill where you’ll always find writers and readers in front of and behind the bar — please take a minute to nominate our hosts in the following categories:
- Best bar
- Best beer selection (craft aficionados, you understand — and gluten-free drinkers, you do too)
- Best dive bar (you’re welcome, but your credit card isn’t)
- Best bartender (Ms. Tricia Pryce Henley, whom you may remember as a reader at Scratchpad #3)
You can enter nominations once a day until entries close. You know what to do.