Someone once told me if he ever had an affair, he’d take his secret lover to the Driftwood Lounge. So I camp out there every night with a beebee gun and a jumbo canister of Mace, because I couldn’t tell if my boyfriend was joking or not. Just kidding. Let me start over. The positively bewitching Driftwood Lounge oozes old Hollywood glamour and romance, has lighting so pleasingly dim that everyone looks like an extra in the Pet Shop Boys “We Were Never Being Boring” video, makes an art form out of the champagne cocktail, has one of the sexiest desserts ever–the Mint Julep ice cream sandwich with hot bourbon fudge, and ever so conveniently happens to be located in one of downtown Portland’s most entrancing boutique hotels. Coincidence? I think not. Can we get an order of that hot bourbon fudge sauce to go, please?
