Mississippi Studios

Rad venue. Good burgers.

Cool venue. Restaurant/bar next door has bomb burgers

One of my favorite venues in town. Sound is fantastic, the staff is great, connected to Bar Bar...it's kind of awesome.

My first and last visit. A terrible seating setup; watched drunk “bros” who didn’t arrive early enough, wait for women to get up from their seat to use the restroom only to swoop in and snatch the seats. Add to that a bar that clearly over-serves (watched an employee make eye contact with a guy who was struggling to stand and mumbling incoherently multiple times with no intervention) and mediocre sound and you have an overpriced, overrated and unsafe venue.

Best small venue for intimate concert

Jesse Welles was amazing! Thank you for your part in bringing him to Portland! Amazing show!!!

The food was pretty great, the show was stellar, and the pours were heavy

All around wonderful experience--from food to drinks to entertainment! Can't wait to enjoy this place again.

Ah, Mississippi Studios — Portland’s premier venue for live music, overpriced drinks, and astonishingly gifted bouncers who possess the supernatural ability to detect imaginary drunkenness.

I, a person of color, had the absolute pleasure of being denied entry to a show on Saturday, March 29th — a show I paid for, by the way — because, according to the gatekeeper of the night, I “stumbled.” Huh? Did I black out mid-sentence while completely sober? That’s news to me, because I hadn’t touched a drop of alcohol all day. Nada. Zilch. But thank you, Mississippi Studios, for letting me know I apparently need to work on my walking.

This all happened in front of my girlfriend, who I was attending the show with. Romantic evening, right? Wrong. It turns out gently nudging your girlfriend’s shoulder in a playful way is code for “inebriated mess” in the Mississippi Studios universe. Perhaps they run a secret bootcamp where staff are trained to spot people having a good time and immediately deny them access.

When I politely explained that I hadn’t drunk anything, was completely sober, and even offered to take a breathalyzer on the spot (you know, like someone who’s not drunk might do), the bouncer looked me dead in the eye and said… “Have a good evening.”

And that’s it. No accountability. No clarification. Just an ego trip and a wasted night. I guess “Portland nice” now includes gaslighting patrons and treating sobriety as suspicious behavior.

But hey — if you’re looking for a venue where imaginary stumbles are treated like federal offenses, Mississippi Studios is your spot. Who needs fairness or logic when you can be arbitrarily judged by a bored doorman with a God complex?

Thanks for absolutely nothing, Mississippi Studios. I hope your bouncers are at least awarded honorary PhDs in Assumption and Discrimination.

One of my favorite venues in PSX!

Great sound and good people. I love seeing local bands here, they always bring something special.

Always a great venue.
Man man was great there.
Saw the wanna be 52s there great show

One of my favorite venues in the city to see musicians

Always a great venue for a show.

Want to love this venue, but honestly, some of the speakers have a really bad buzz to the point that it's really distracting. Second show now that it has been a real bummer. Dan Reeder deserved better