A laptop-friendly space in Portland
The Zipper is great for working in an open environment and eating some seriously great grub. There's a covered indoor space with 10 metal tables for small groups. The outside area has eight group tables and six individual tables (or two people). Housed inside are tasty restaurants and a coffee shop: Rua, Slice Pizza Company, ChickPeaDX, Bywater Grocery, Seven Virtues Coffee Roasters, and Paydirt. Free wifi is typically 12-18 Mb/s. No outlets outside but some inside individual restaurants. It gets more crowded at lunch and closer to 5pm, especially on Fridays. People occasionally smoke outside.
Need to know
| Type of Space |
Public |
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| Today | All Hours | |||
| Avg. WiFi Speed | 19 Mb/s | Details | |
| WiFi Login | Unknown | ||
| Background Noise | Moderate | ||
| Power | |||
| Food | |||
| Coffee | |||
| Tea | |||
| Alcohol | |||
| Group Seating | |||
| Outdoor Seating | |||
| Types of Seating | Small tables, larger tables, standing bar / counter | ||
| Accessible Outlets | Good | ||
| Community Tags | the zipper, zipper portland, zipper, Has Food, Outdoor Seating, Natural Light, Alcohol, Has Power | ||
| Coffee Options | Seven Virtues | ||
| Alcohol Options | Beer, Cocktails | ||
| Food Options | pizza, falafel, banh mi, noodles, po-boys, fried seafood, whiskey, pizza | ||
| Scout Date | December 2015 | ||
| Last Updated | March 2016 | ||
There are zero outlets in the main indoor seating area… there may be some at some of the small counters/tables inside the individual restaurants, but otherwise you have to go to the coffee shop (seven virtues–2 outlets)
halfstring’s note from Dec 11th is accurate and still true today.
For Comcast users, there’a also “xfinitywif” but it’s slow at 2.75 Mb/s.