Marathon Taverna sits at 1735 West Burnside Street, a short walk from Providence Park, and is the sports bar Timbers and Thorns crowds fill before and after a match. It runs more than twenty screens, twenty taps and three pool tables, and the kitchen leans Greek with gyros alongside the pub plates.
The pitch is screens, taps and a late kitchen. This is a sports bar built for a crowd that wants every game on and a beer in hand, not a quiet seat or a craft cocktail program. Anyone after a calm room should look elsewhere, because the draw here is the matchday energy and the proximity to the stadium gate.
The room is a wide taverna with screens angled at every seat, a long bar, pool tables in the back and a kitchen that runs from breakfast through last call. Yelp lists it squarely as a sports bar near Providence Park, and Tripadvisor reviewers in the Northwest District flag the screen count and the Greek plates as the reason to come. On a Timbers home night the room runs at capacity from the opening whistle.
Order a draft off the twenty taps and a gyro, the kitchen's signature, or work through the burgers and tots that reviewers single out. The drinks list keeps cocktails simple and the prices low, which is the point on a matchday round. This is value drinking near a stadium, not a twenty-dollar cocktail room.
The crowd is matchday-first, filling with Timbers and Thorns supporters in green and red, then settling into a late-night mix of pool players and regulars. Reviewers on Tripadvisor credit the all-day hours and the friendly service, and point newcomers toward a weeknight for an easier table. Match nights bring the line and the volume.
Getting there is straightforward. The taverna sits on West Burnside Street at the western edge of downtown, a short walk from Providence Park, which makes it a default for Timbers and Thorns supporters heading to or from a match. The room is large enough to absorb a matchday crowd across the bar, the booths and the pool area without losing a seat in front of a screen.
On the food, the kitchen pairs Greek staples with American pub plates, so a table can split a gyro and a burger without compromise. The all-day hours mean the same room serves breakfast, a mid-match round and a late-night plate, and reviewers on Restaurantji single out the breakfast deal and the gyros as the standouts. The twenty taps keep the beer side broad enough for a mixed group.
What regulars say lands on the basics. Yelp and Restaurantji reviewers credit the screen count, the twenty taps and the late kitchen as the package that keeps the room full, and they single out the gyros and the all-day breakfast as the kitchen's strengths. The common caution is that match nights and big fights run loud and full, so anyone after a quiet pint should pick a weekday afternoon.
Best time to go is a home-match afternoon when every screen matters, or late on a weeknight when the kitchen is still on and a pool table is free. Who it is for: a game-day crowd, a Timbers fan and anyone who wants the bar nearest the gate. For more screens around town, see our best sports bars in Portland guide, the wider Portland bar guide, and our pillar on the best sports bars worldwide.
Sources: Marathon Taverna official site (2026); Yelp Marathon Taverna reviews; Tripadvisor Marathon Taverna; Restaurantji Marathon Taverna; Marathon Taverna Facebook
