Dots Cafe.PDX

WE WILL BE CLOSED TODAY MAY 1st . Giving our staff the day and getting ready for our big 🎃 HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN MARKET 🎃
See ya tomorrow! (SAT 5/2) Open at noon for lunch !

Reminder that you’ll have two opportunities to dress up in May!

Our next VHS and Vendor market is followed up by our Halfway to Halloween party. We’re giving away $100 again for the best costume and some prizes for the runners up. will be in the booth and we will also have our Monster Squad Olympics to go along with it (in slide 2). Come show us your best Werewolfs Howl or Witches Cackle, get your face painted if you don’t have a costume, or just do a test run for the big party in October!

CALLING ALL KURTS! More details soon! Thanks to for the idea!

Our friends over at are fundraising again and we figured we would chip in the best we can to help out. All month we will be slinging this Lychee & Hibiscus Sparkling Lemonade. $2 from each one will go over to them at the end of the month. We’d be stoked to write them a big ass check, so come grab one!

February fake out gave us a little taste of spring so we have decided to open a little earlier on SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS for LUNCH! Starting this weekend March 7, we will be opening at noon and running a lunch menu on top of our regular menu..here is Skelly with a BACON EGG & CHEESE on a grand central ciabatta and a CROQUE MADAME on grand central sourdough. We will also have some tasty vegan and vegetarian items…Come check out what else is on our lunch menu this weekend!

So, we talked this over with staff and we have decided that we will be closed tomorrow in solidarity with those taking a stand against ICE and everything awful currently flooding our feeds.

What is going on out there isn’t normal, it isn’t right and it needs to change. Maybe a small bar in SE Portland closing for a night won’t make a massive change, maybe it will, what do we know, we are just that small bar. Being closed on a Friday will suck, but this already hit us close to home, our friend and coworker Orlando is STILL waiting on a court date and has been separated from his family for almost 3 months. Like we said, something needs to change and that all has to start somewhere maybe, right?

We will be open on Saturday and back at it. We also would like to point out that our partners in crime are showing Mississippi Masala and donating the proceeds to the PIRC. We have a few more cool announcements coming soon too.

So let’s take a day tomorrow and collect our thoughts and figure out what can be done to right this ship. We love all of our neighbors. We will see you on Saturday. Or if you wanna get your fill of cheap PBR’s and Burgers, we are open normal hours tonight!

F**K. ICE.

We will be closed today Monday January 26 for a private event. See ya tomorrow! ❤️

THE SWAP RETURNS!!!

Saturday Feb 7th, we have our next VHS Swap and Vendor Market. We have a ton of awesome tape vendors this time around, so you definitely don’t want to miss it.

At 9pm, we are gonna have a little “bachelorx auction.” This will all obviously be in good fun and done with a sense of humor. Proceeds will go to the . Essentially come on down, auction off a couple hours of your time, we will supply a gift certificate for dinner. If you all hang out past then, we will have a pair of movie tickets and a gift certificate for desert afterwards.

Our good friend .pyre makes their grand return to the DJ Booth from 8pm - late

Gonna be a fun one, get down here!

We truly can’t believe how fu***ng cool this is. Like so many of you, we were raised on and he is very special to us. To be able to come into Dots and be able to look at this literal work of art is something we will never get tired of. Come check out Miss Yvonne and admire the hard work and thoughtfulness that went into her. Thank you so much and for creating the coolest picture phone booth in the world ❤️

Dammit Janet!

It’s taken us a lil bit, but we suppose it’s about time to have a Rocky Horror Cocktail over here. Come grab a Dr. Frank before any number one of the weeks worth of awesome showings at the theater and then we suppose we could have it from here on out on Saturday nights.