i'm looking for a second home.
i would like to find a few bars that have the following features:

-comfortable, well-lit seating where i can read a book for hours at a time
-cheap beer
-cheap tasty happy hour food (the longer the happy hour the better, of course)
-opens relatively early (3ish maybe?  or earlier)
-cute alternativish-looking dudes (yes, like tattooed hipster guys, i can't help it if that's what blows my skirt up!)
-friendly bartenders
-not too crowded before dark
-smoker-friendly
-air conditoning would be nice

anywhere in inner pdx is fine as long as it is quick and easy to reach via trimet.  so far i have found these things at basement pub, but there are only two places to sit that get enough light by which to read, so i need some alternatives.

ALSO i would like to find a few bars with much of the same criterion, except with ample patio/sidewalk seating that allows dogs.  obviously these places would not need the comfortable well-lit indoor seating or the a/c.  since i would be walking my dog to these places, they would need to be in the general downtown area or inner southeast as close to burnside as possible.  preferably these places would have so much outdoor seating that we would not have to wait/fight for a place to sit.  so far we have found captain ankeny's but i am not sure how i feel about that place, it can get sort of crazy on sunny days.

thank you much!!!!