Meanwhile, Union has new food and drink neighbors including Optimism Brewing, Metier, Soi, Gokan, Frankie and Jo’s, and the Renee Erickson trio of General Porpoise Doughnuts, Bar Melusine, and Bateau.įor Scheaffer and Hill gay bar legends Nathan Benedict, Steve Nyman - former owners of Inside Passage and Thumper’s - Opening under COVID-19 restrictions means Union customers will need to review the bar’s guide to requested etiquette during the ongoing pandemic including a request that customers remain masked when interacting with staff.
The new tenant has swapped out the rock and the darkness for patio wood and Pride rainbows. “I hope that the community that we service and that has adopted us as a second home joins in the excitement of our ability to relocate and reopen,” Union partner Greg Scheaffer told CHS about the planned move back in September.īorn in the summer of 2018 at 14th and Union, the bar has reopened closer to the Pike/Pine core after an overhaul to the space most recently home to Portland export Sizzle Pie and its heavy metal-hued Dark Bar. Gay bar Union has completed a classic Capitol HIll move and reopened just four blocks from its first home in the neighborhood.
