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The bluesy jazz of Lou Donaldson's "Here 'Tis", plus some other classics related to the players on the album. It's cool and comfortable inside, with great drinks, great food, the best staff in Portland, and some swinging tunes as part of Jo Bar's Blue Note Monday series. Please join us! Jo Bar has been committed to providing high quality jazz music of all kinds, I consider it my favorite club and home away from home. This'll be a fun night! No cover, either.
A wonderful night of live jazz sitting by a wide open window on a warm summer night overlooking the Nob Hill section of Portland. We ordered the same as the last time we were here. We started off with the Fondue (fontina & gorgonzola fondue, asparagus, apples, ken's artisan baguette) for a starter, and then for our meal had the "Salmon Nicoise Salad" (seared king salmon, butter lettuce, cherry tomatoes, kalamata olives, green beans, fingerling potatoes, hard boiled egg, capers, sherry vinaigrette). They split the salmon salad for us and I almost can't believe what we are each served only comes to $12 each. It is definitely a filling meal. We don't normally ever order dessert, but with my birthday just 3 days away, we orderd and split the Cafe au Chocolate (cappuccino brownie, milk chocolate espresso mouse, valrhona croquants, dark chocolate espresso ganache). Even splitting it, we couldn't finish it and brought some of it home.
The great thing about Jo Bar is that they have Blue Note live jazz on Mondays from 7pm to 10pm. There is a lot of live jazz in Portland / Vancouver all week, but Monday has some but very few places with any kind of live music. So Jo Bar is our "go to" place when we want to listen to some live jazz on Mondays.
The reason for the above Scotch photo is that I always immediately notice if a bar has any Islay Scotch available, especially if they have anything more than just the standard common Islay Scotch. The Ardbeg bottle on the right is the standard TEN YEAR Ardbeg. I don't know what the Ardbeg bottle to the left of that is, but I'll have to ask them next time. It is extremely rare for any bar to carry anything other than the standard Ten Year Ardbeg Islay Scotch. I'm a HUGE fan of Islay Scotch as almost all of them are very peaty and smokey. At my Anaheim house I have multiple bottles of almost every type of Scotch from EVERY Islay distillery. It is extremely rare to find any bar with any Islay Scotch, and if they have Islay Scotch, it is usually just the most common and popular of the Islay Scotch. So I'm always curious when any bar has anything beyond the most common Islay Scotch.
Blue Note Mondays: Cyrus Nabipoor covers Cannonball Adderley's "Somethin' Else."
Still hungry for some regular hot food, we went to Jo Bar & Rotisserie and split an Impossible Burner. I also had an excellent glass of David Hill Pinot Noir from Willamette Valley, Oregon ($15).
