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Celebrate Negroni Week in Portland

Explore Portland’s best bars and restaurants while sipping cocktails for a cause.

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Maya Seaman

Maya Seaman

Maya Seaman is a SoCal-born writer who traded palm trees for pines when she moved to Portland in 2010. Read More

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This is a recurring event and we’re showing the details from its most recent past occurrence. We’ll update this page with future event info as soon as we get it. Please check back!
When
Sept. 16–22, 2024
Daily
Where
Various Locations

What’s more fun than bar-crawling through Portland? Knowing that every sip is helping a worthy cause. Every September, bars and restaurants around the city (and the world) join forces for Negroni Week.

This Portland-born fundraising event challenges bartenders across the globe to present their best twists on the classic three-ingredient cocktail. Part of the proceeds from each negroni purchased benefit 40 charities, including Portland’s Outside In and Oregon Food Bank.

Negroni: The Drink

Dating back to early 1900s Italy, the negroni is composed of only three ingredients: gin, Campari and sweet vermouth. It’s a bittersweet beverage with a pungent orange-peel flavor that can yield limitless variety when in the hands of imaginative bartenders.

a bartender prepares a drink made with Negroni
Portland bartenders put their own twists on the classic negroni during Negroni Week.

Credit: David Fuhrmann

In previous iterations of Negroni Week, Portland’s bartenders have stretched those limits, crafting incredible offerings: Bunk Bar helped patrons beat the heat with frozen negroni slushies and Richmond Bar explored the negroni’s smoky depths by adding mescal.

Negroni Week: The Event

Negroni Week was founded in 2013 by Portland-based “liquid culture” magazine Imbibe and spirits giant Campari America. It has since expanded to more than 6,000 participating bars and restaurants throughout North America, Europe and Australia. The event raised $900,000 for thousands of charities worldwide in its first four years.

“The negroni has always been one of our favorite cocktails here at Imbibe,” explains Karen Foley, Imbibe’s publisher. “When we launched Negroni Week back in 2013, the cocktail was just starting to experience a resurgence, so we thought this would be a fun way to expand that momentum. It’s been amazing to see enthusiasts and bartenders around the world rally behind this cocktail as a way to support causes that are meaningful to them.”

Negroni Week created its donation model to make an even greater impact. Participating locations worldwide select their beneficiaries from a list of dozens of high-impact groups. These include Portland organizations like Outside In and Oregon Food Bank. (Participants are also invited to make an up-front donation in addition to their Negroni sales contribution.) This means more money is funneled from thousands of bars and restaurants all over the world to deserving nonprofits. All you have to do to support this philanthropic endeavor is show up and drink.

5 To Try

Portland Cocktail Bars

Take a sip out of these locally beloved cocktail bars.

  • Rum Club

    This bar shines a spotlight on rum, but also offers other cocktails, including a weekly classic cocktail special. They also have happy hour and a tempting food menu.

  • Deadshot

    Deadshot is a cocktail-focused bar in Southeast Portland. They offer unique cocktails, small-batch beers on draft and a tightly curated wine list. The kitchen focuses on updated interpretations of classic bar food and snacks.

  • Hale Pele

    Hale Pele is a tropical tiki bar that celebrates fruity cocktails from times past. The menu features over 50 tropical drinks made with fresh-squeezed juices, premium spirits and locally made syrups, as well as small plates inspired by island culture.

  • Arbor Hall

    Wind down with a cocktail at this old-meets-new Montavilla lounge. Modern and retro recipes are mixed together on their cocktail menu, alongside an array of fresh bar snacks, draft beer and wine.

  • Angel Face

    This popular cocktail bar foregoes a drink list in favor of custom creations tailored to customers’ tastes. They also offer a small food menu (oysters are their specialty) to accompany the creative libations.

Negroni Week: The Plan

With so many cocktails to choose from, Negroni Week in Portland can seem a bit daunting. (Sampling from over 60 varieties would burn out even the most die-hard negroni lover). Fortunately, Negroni Week publishes a list of participating bars and restaurants (along with their charities and featured negronis) to help you plan your cocktail-tasting journey. (Keep an eye on their website for more details.)

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