Blitz Ladd anchors a corner at 2239 Southeast 11th Avenue in Portland's Hosford-Abernethy district, on the edge of the Ladd's Addition neighbourhood that gives the bar its name. It is the larger of the Blitz sports pubs, a room built around watching games, with the screen count and the seating to match a big Sunday.
The draw is the broadcast. Blitz Ladd runs roughly 35 screens and seats close to 290, and Portland Monthly and the local sports-bar guides list it among the city's go-to rooms for the NFL, the Trail Blazers, and the college slate. It carries the league packages a full Sunday needs, which keeps the room loud and full through the fall and winter seasons.
The space is open and high-volume by design, a sports hall rather than an intimate bar, with sightlines arranged so most seats catch a screen. Long tables and booths make it an easy landing for groups, and the layout splits naturally between the main viewing floor and quieter edges for anyone who wants a side conversation during a slow quarter.
Order from the local draft list, which leans on Oregon breweries rather than only national macros, and pair it with the bar food built for a long game day. The well cocktails are straightforward rather than a program, which fits a room where the screen, not the shaker, is the point. Game-day specials are the value play, so check the board on the way in.
This is a sports bar first, so anyone after a quiet date or a cocktail den should look to one of Southeast Portland's other rooms. The value reads fair for the neighbourhood, with pints and plates priced for regulars who come back every weekend.
Quiet on a weekday afternoon, the room transforms on game days, when Blazers nights and NFL Sundays pack the floor and the big matchups draw a crowd early. Arrive ahead of kickoff for a table with a clear screen, since the prime seats go fast once the games start.
Reviewers on Google and Yelp return to the same notes: the wall of screens, the league coverage, and a staff that keeps a busy room moving on the loudest days. The mix skews local, with Southeast regulars and team fans who treat it as their home room for the season.
Who it is for: sports fans who want every game on a screen, groups out for a Blazers or NFL day, and anyone after a reliable Southeast viewing room. Who it is not for: anyone after a quiet drink, a date, or a craft cocktail list, since Blitz Ladd is built around the broadcast and the crowd that comes for it.
Location does much of the work. The bar sits on the edge of Ladd's Addition in Southeast Portland, walkable from the inner Hawthorne and Division corridors, which makes it an easy anchor for a game day that starts early and runs late. The size of the room means a big group rarely has to split up to find a screen.
The format rewards arriving early. Because the prime seats fill fast once kickoff or tip-off nears, the smart move is to claim a table well ahead of the marquee games, then settle in for the full slate. The local draft list and the game-day food specials keep a long afternoon affordable, and the staff are used to running a packed room on the loudest Sundays of the season.
Blitz Ladd belongs in the Portland sports conversation alongside the city's other game-day rooms. See where it lands in our guide to the best sports bars in Portland, browse the full Portland bar guide, and compare it across the wider sports bars guide. Nearby, The Cheerful Tortoise in Portland is worth a stop.
