Annie's Uppertown Tavern

I've been to the "new" Annie's Saloon at least two dozen since it was taken over by new owners. Owner/bartender is very sweet and extremely personable. The rest of the staff is very friendly and way more laid back then the clubs in Portland. The majority of the dancers are all attractive and also friendly, naturally. :-) ...in addition to alleged rumors, i have NEVER been solicited by any of the Dancers. I too was there the night of the "alleged" brawl that never happened! The local police and the liar chief along with the city are in my opinion picking on Annie's like a bunch of sour bullies. I have literally witness police make up reasons to stop and harass the owners, APD should be ashamed of themselves! Support and assist your local businesses, stop trying to put good people out of business!!

I've been waiting a long time to write this review.  So the story goes like this....a few months ago, someone posts a news story on yelp talk about a street brawl between fisherman and loggers outside this place called Annie's Tavern.  

Fast forward a week.

The Old Man and I were on a camping trip on the beach and had planned a wine tour on the way home...but of course we stopped at a local bar in Tillamook and plans changed quickly.  And if you know us, we love dive bars and suddenly a dive bar tour up the coast sounded way better.  We went to the trashiest, filthiest places we could find.  A logger tavern, a Chinese restaurant with a tiny bar in the back with grapes hanging from the ceiling, and once we got up to Astoria, low and behold we came upon Annie's Tavern.  My memory served me well, and I told Mac about the news story and we just had to make that a stop on our epic coastal bar crawl.

Except it wasn't any old bar.  It was a stripclub!!!!  No liquor, lots of creepy oldsters at the rack, tons of trashy strippers....

And then.... Annie came out.
Annie wasn't your typical stripper. She wasn't overly done up,in fact, I don't think she even had a stitch of makeup on.  She donned some glasses similar to mine and had her hair back in a ponytail.  
The point is, she didn't LOOK like a stripper.  Her dancing was intriguing, but not slutty.  She turned around and took her top off in a peekaboo, almost modest, striptease kind of way.  I just kept wondering WHY Annie was working in this place.  She was the classiest stripper I'd ever seen, yet she was in the trashiest hell-hole.  Poor little Annie.  

Annie's tavern gets an extra star because of her.  I hope she can get out of there!

Fun for the whole family!  Look forward to seeing my friend's mom dance again.