Skyline Drive-in
April 10, 2008
- Skyline Drive-in website (CitySearch)
- Location: NW Portland (Cornell & Skyline)
- Cost to fill up two people: About $18
If you’re looking for the old-fashioned carhop skating to your rolled-down window, this ain’t it, although there’s a mural of same painted in the stalls where that used to happen.
But in every other respect, Skyline Drive-in is a 50s throwback, vinyl booths, kitsch and all. Probably the coolest part is that this isn’t a “theme” restaurant, where decorators carefully calibrated the poodle skirt reproductions. Skyline just grew that way. [Read more]