Scoreboard

All the negative reviews about this place make me wonder if one or several of the erected structures up and down «D-​Street» serve as the container wall for giant (in this case we will say luxury studio size) childrens tylenol containers. «This wasn’t safe»…“I’ve never seen wings like these”…“I’m pretty sure this is mayonaise and we ordered aioli”.I noticed the New Seasons in Woodstock now has a roof top drinking patio, go jump off it.

The servers here are always super nice and you can tell they work really hard. Sometimes on nights when they are going to be obviously super slammed (ie Blazer Playoffs) there should be two. Even at those times they are killer and you can see them working hard. Good drinks and food.

How can this place not be getting knocked down and replaced with condos yet? Someone must be holding out for more money cuz it’s a huge bar that always has like three people in it. Last time I went in, it smelled like an animal had died somewhere and they hadn’t bothered to look around and remove it from behind the video poker machines or wherever it was decomposing. In this case I eagerly await «progress».

Stopped in for a beer and some food. Young female bartender was VERY unfriendly and bitchy. Ordered wings and got something resembling charred miniature wing looking things that were basically batter over bone. I actually have never even seen anything like it before. Two of them were like 1 ½″ long and ½″ thick.
Besides being microscopic, they so over cooked they basically cooked all the meat out of them. I asked the bartender to observe them and she said «yea, so what they’re wings, that’s what you ordered!!» I asked for them to be replaced to which she grabbed them, rolled her eyes, they’re them across the bar to the garbage and stormed off into the kitchen.
Don’t torture yourself here, there are too many cool places on division that are great to waste you time and money on abuse and toxic food here.

It’s not a very busy bar which I like. I especially go for the pinball machines. The beer is cheaper than other neighborhood bars. The food is worse than other neighborhood bars. Mostly clean. Furniture is old and somewhat uncomfortable. Otherwise okay place.

My local dive on Division. I love this place cheap drinks and food.

Very neat place. My friend brought me here and it’s a dark dive bar. Not crowded at all but good people and great prices. Will definitely come back!

Good old school Portland dive bar. Stiff drinks and they had the game on, so no complaints there. My one and only suggestion would be to have a bigger bar menu. A place like this would be a sure fire thing, if they would invest in a cook and a grill. Places like this were known for slinging good burgers, back in the day. Booze and burgers? Money maker.

Scoreboard? More like «Scumbar» (as in «Scummy Bar»).
You might enjoy this laidback watering hole if you are a total scumbag. I like dive bars. Love em. But Scoreboard is weird. They have all these huge, unwieldy green nylon wheely chairs that look they were lifted out of a conference room in the late 70’s. They take up about 40% of the main floor, are a pain to wade through, and make everything feel really… low, and exposed.
I came with a couple friends because we knew this place gained a rep for having skeeball. But little did we know we’d actually be playing scumball: only 2 pathetic units were tucked in a corner next to the restroom, and they would simply stop producing balls midway through games.
My disappointment over the unresolved games is not the only thing that marred my experience. Nothing seemed to function properly. For example, a bar that has so many quarter-​operated games should have a better system for getting quarters. At other spots around PDX I’ve been able to add a buck or two to my tab, get some coin from the barkeep, and shoot pool. No problems. That simple system didn’t fly here: instead I had to close my tab, use the ATM, go back to the bar and wait to get change for a 20, then use their quarter machine. And then waste it on whack skeeball.
With all our extra quarters, we improvised: «let’s play some Cutthroat.» We were being watched. The moment I turned away from our huddle, all hope was lost: noticing our moves toward the green felt, a shaggy-​haired scum quickly pivoted away from his post at a nearby handrail, plunging into the ball deposit with two wretched wrists. He glanced up and stared right at me, a vicious, satisfied glint in his eyes (he looked sorta like Kiefer Sutherland in «Stand by Me»)…
We booked it soon after and went up the street to drink at North. Walking back down Division, my friend Ian was audibly shivering as we passed Scoreboard.
«Ian, are you cold?»
«Yeah…but also that place is just really scummy.»

Cool place! Comfy chairs to watch the game, decent prices, excellent/​helpful in discovering new drinks bartender. Funny movies on after game (hangover, etc.) 3 pool tables, 2 SKEE BALL! And a wall of pin ball:) overall very chill place to just kick it and have a good time

You bring whatever you want to this party. Some folks like sports and there is of course a great representation there. Also means a few more XY’s. I was really surprised how expensive their special drinks are, but it’s just not a foofy place. They have a great jukebox and I have never found anything to be lacking other than the food a couple times. That is one thing I can say that made me a little peeved is that one day the food was totally on point and another it was just sad… somehow burnt and yet also soggy. But I am keeping my 4 stars because I have really enjoyed my time there and I feel like some of these other reviewers were maybe looking for something that doesn’t occupy this spot.

When I moved to Portland 11 years ago there seemed to be a dive bar like Scoreboard on every corner. You know the drill: Strong, knock you on your behind drinks that cost a handful of dollars, pool tables, juke, shabby furnishings, and sports on the TV. Now it’s all «mixology» bars and brew pubs, which is fine and good and dandy (I like those things) but sometimes you just want a proper, old school boozer.
The Scoreboard ticks all the boxes: Cheap, lethally strong drinks, friendly bartenders, pool, sports, etc. I came here twice on my last trip home. First time was a totally dead Friday night, which was fine as I just wanted to enjoy my insanely cheap pint of beer over a conversation with a friend and head to bed at a reasonable hour. Next time I came in on Thursday night to catch the end of the karaōke session. The place was rollicking at one am, everyone dancing to the karaōke together, being sociable, and generally having a great time. I can’t remember the last time an impromptu dance party broke out a bar or the last time I had convos with random strangers at a bar.
Then I had a little two much fun and the bartender brewed me up some free coffee. Thanks darlin, you’re the best!

Went to this dive to play some pinball as they just installed 10 great titles. Discovered two not working when I attempted to play them. Got refund from Bartender pretty easily.
I Had ordered a Beer and before the last gulp noticed two fruit flies dead and floating!
It is July and no air conditioning makes it pretty stuffy in this well weathered watering hole. I’ll give this place two stars as the Bartender was nice enough.

Cheap drinks check, amazing music that brings you back to your younger years check, games that make you feel like a kid again check. Enough room to hang out with your large group. Can’t find any problems with this bar on a Saturday night. Will be coming back!

My first time visiting this establishment last night for a friend’s birthday party…
I thought everything was awesome… till the bartender kept trying to rip me off.
***The one and only problem, which was the huge negative was that one bartender that kept ringing in my drinks and giving me back the wrong amount of change. I’d order a whisky on the rocks and a jello shot for $ 4.75 and I’d give her a $ 20 and she’d give me $.25… I will NEVER go back to this bar due to the sleazy practice that a crack addict would pull. When I’m having fun, I don’t want to keep track of what I paid and what I’m owed.
DON’T GO TO THIS BAR. RUN, RUN, RUN.
*I actually had to have my friends’ order me drinks so I wouldn’t get ripped off. Piece of shit bar that needs to throw out the trash employees.
*I did reach out to the owner who informed that that bartender usually is pretty good and it must have been one of her off days. So, the owner has had other complaints from customer’s, but keeps the trash behind the bar. GREAT THINKING. Another dumb bar owner who has to work a 2^nd job to pay to run the bar.

I will update this review the next time I spend more time here, but so far I just had one comment.
Dudes. So many dudes. Single ladies, come here. Because it’s a man hangout and there isn’t a women in sight.

This place is a pretty cool dive bar and good overflow when the Landmark gets full. which is pretty much always.
laid back, cool jukebox, and Olympia beer (I need to slum sometimes too…)

This place is so very good for football on Sunday morning, well that’s the only time I have been there. On one side of the bar they have a seperate room that has about 6 flat screen tv’s each with a different game going, three or four rows of tables all accompanied with comfy swivel chairs (all the chairs facing toward he tv’s). They have more tv’s in the main part of the bar also but I like the class room style room cause I focus more on the game (I’m trying to learn more about football). They also have a pretty decent menu and they were pretty flexible with me to make me something vegetarian and the way I wanted. Prices aren’t bad either.

Maybe I should double the score for the seating and layout, but jeez S. Board how bad can you make that burger???
Made by the guy that was drinking whiskey next to me before I ordered it, who apparently MAYBE works there, maybe as a janitor or something? He was talking about how it was his first time working in that kitchen. A group that appeared to be the owners sitting next to him, so I thought maybe that would have helped the sitch, but hell naw.
–Took 40 minutes to come out, (after orders after me, blah blah blah).
–asked for medium rare «no problem!», comes out cooked WELLwell, dry, cold, and undersized. Cold fries as well. Cold chili on top too, to the point that it had solidified on top of the patty. That’s cool (heh) though, because there was maybe a tablespoon of chli, didn’t spill a single drop of chili out of their chili burger, how is that even possible?!?
–the bun was cold and wet.
–no napkins. Acknowledged by the bartender, just never got me some until I practically had to tackle her to get some.
The real issues that let to me actually typing this out. Bartender gal wasn’t even slammed, but there was a party that kept ordering expensive shots that had her completely distracted. And she never apologized for the completely terrible service, how ridiculously long the wait was, or asked how the burger was. I honestly couldn’t even flag her down.
There’ll probably eventually be a Sunday that I want to watch a few games, but what a bummer.

A nice neighborhood dive bar.
The seating was very comfortable. They had big green captain chairs that looked like they got them from an 80’s Bingo Parlor. They swiveled and reclined and you could adjust the height. A divey sports bar with some of the most comfy chairs earns it that extra star from generic 3 star dive bar.
They had TVs in all the right places and actually played the sound from the game. I’ve been to some“sports bars” that don’t play the game audio, instead opting for some Top 40 playlist. They had plenty of seating. A great thing since we watched the USC Oregon game.
The drinks were cheaper. Maybe even better than generic dive bar prices. Jello Shots were a buck (Always fun and cheap to buy a round of those). PBR on draft was $ 2. My total tab for 8 beers and 8 jello shots was $ 26. Score!!! BOARD!
I didn’t try the food since we ate before hand because I am not really a fan of divey bar food.
Service was friendly and the drinks came quick.
I live pretty far from this place, but if the opportunity arose, I would definitely hang out at the Scoreboard again. Give em a point!

Do you need a bar that has a TV and a sports package? Maybe some cheap tots and okay burgers? Do you find ambiance to be too distracting to your enjoyment of a sporting match?
Well Scoreboard is the place for you.
This bleak dive is a decent place to catch a game. There’s pretty much zero ambiance in the place, but they have the primary ingredients necessary for an in-​bar spectating experience. Beers on tap. Liquor behind the bar. Ice. Cups. A deep-​fryer for tater-​tots. A thrown-​together selection of chairs and tables that are easily reconfigured into an amphitheater-​style seating arrangement for the big game. And a TV with sports access.
There really aren’t any more frills than that, and, well, do you need any? If you do, you’re probably going to want to venture elsewhere, but if not, Scoreboard will come through fin a pinch.
Now if only the NBA would start playing games at some point…

Riddled with an identity crisis, poor service and not so clean and or barely maintained structure… the Scoreboard was heading deep below the dive bar scene and on its way to extinction. New owners and some staff changes have brought the Scoreboard back up a notch.
The Scoreboard is trying to make a change. Although certainly still a dive bar by definition, the recent addition of live music on some weekends, a small dance floor, some pretty good drink specials, and much better service is beginning to make this place way more appealing.
The Scoreboard has lots of TV’s for sporting events and actually a lot of seating around them, and the stage area. They have some good happy hour specials, and a full bar with reasonable priced well drinks. The food is average bar food, that is prepared well, and very reasonably priced.
The addition of live music is what has really gotten me through the door here. Two pool tables, poker machines, pinball, and reasonable prices make it worth coming back when in the area. The jukebox however has some strange assortment of music on it. I would caution on some of those choices. A-​OK for now, I will be watching.