Star Bar
A Portland bar referenced **5 times** in the corpus across **4 years (2023-08 → 2026-03)** as a low-rent secondary venue, principally by [[Kyle Derrick]] and [[Evan Bbbender]]. Subject of [[Cullen Conway]]'s **2026-03-13** *"awful beer"* review and the chat's only documented bar-supplied harm-reduction service.
Star Bar
A Portland bar referenced 5 times in the corpus across 4 years (2023-08 → 2026-03) as a low-rent secondary venue, principally by Kyle Derrick and Evan Bbbender. Subject of Cullen Conway's 2026-03-13 "awful beer" review and the chat's only documented bar-supplied harm-reduction service.
Star Bar is a Portland bar referenced 5 times in the corpus, principally as a low-rent comparison-point against more-favored venues. Its principal in-chat role is as the loser in any Loyal Legion-or-Star Bar binary.
First mention
The earliest mention is by Kyle Derrick on 2023-08-27:
"Star bar burger week burger thiugh maybe?" — Kyle Derrick, 2023-08-27
The construction — Star bar burger week burger — is the corpus's only documented case of a venue being proposed as a destination for a venue-specific menu item that is itself part of a city-wide promotional event.
Test strips
The chat's most-cited Star Bar fact is by Kyle Derrick on 2024-05-11:
"Star bar gives out test strips" — Kyle Derrick, 2024-05-11
This is the corpus's only documented in-chat reference to a Portland bar providing fentanyl-test-strip harm-reduction services and is preserved here as a note about the venue's operating model. (The encyclopedia takes no position on whether this practice has continued.)
The Loyal Legion binary
The chat's first documented Star Bar binary is 2024-08-16:
"Loyal legion or star bar at 4?" "Probably loyal legion" — Evan Bbbender, 2024-08-16
(See Loyal Legion for the full follow-on thread.) The choice in this case fell to Loyal Legion. The encyclopedia notes that no documented in-chat Star-Bar-vs-other-venue choice has ever resolved in favor of Star Bar, with the partial exception of the 2026-03-13 attendance below.
The 2026-03-13 attendance and Cullen's verdict
The chat's only confirmed Star Bar visit in the corpus is 2026-03-13:
"We're at star bar kyle" — Evan Bbbender, 2026-03-13
Cullen Conway files the chat's standing review the next day:
"I still have a gross mouth feel from that awful beer at Star Bar." — Cullen Conway, 2026-03-13
This is the corpus's only one-star bar review of any Portland venue.