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Where to Get Drinks in Portland This Week, One Way or Another Your weekly Buzz List. Tropicale (Christine Dong)
2337 NE Glisan St., 503-894-9484, tropicale.co. Noon-9:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday. The Portland food world was leveled last week by the passing of Alfredo Climaco, Portland s pina colada king and owner of this colorful, recently opened cocktail bar. But a piece of his vibrant spirit survives in the drinks that made him famous, like the smoky-sweet Oaxaca Forever. Named after the home state of Climaco s father, it has a subtle wood smoke that wafts in the background like a bonfire on the sand, joined by a swell of grapefruit that crashes against a dash of warming cinnamon.