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Portland Area Link to heading
Breakfast / Brunch / Bakery Link to heading
- Broder : Various locations; Scandinavian
- Screen Door : Southern; Get the Fried Chicken; also does dinner
- Pop Bagel : Portland style pretzel bagel
- Twisted Croissant : Best Croissants in PDX
- Nuvrei : My favorite french pâtisserie in PDX
- Ken’s Artisan Bakery : Sourdough breads, croissants, & pastries
- Bernstein’s Bagels : Good bagels
- Spielman Bagels & Coffee : Good bagels
- Henry Higgins Boiled Bagels : Decent bagels
Food Halls / Food Carts Link to heading
- Matt’s BBQ : Best BBQ in PDX
- Chicken and Guns : Latin style Oak & Mesquite Woodfired Chicken
- Puddle Town Bagels : Good bagels
- Pastrami Zombie : Pastrami sandwiches
- Pine Street Market : Indoor food hall
- Pollo Bravo : Inspired by Pollo Rico in Barcelona and the many rotisseries in Sevilla and Valencia
- Bless Your Heart Burger : Good burgers
- WizBangBar : Salt-n-Straw Softserve
Pizza Link to heading
- Lovely’s Fifty Fifty : Wood fired pizza & Ice cream. Great pizza, not quite neapolitan style
- Red Sauce : Really good pizza
- A Pizza Scholls : Some of the best pizza in Portland (Conneticut style)
- Life of Pie : Neapolitan style pizza
- The Star Portland : Cornmeal deep dish. PDX location of SF’s Little Star / Blueline
- Sweet Heart Pizza : Brought to you by founder of Blue Star Donuts.
- Ken’s Artisan Pizza : Solid brick oven pizza
- POP Pizza : Detroit style pizza. Related to Nuvrei
- Pizza Doughnais : Sicilian style pizza
- Dove Vivi : Pizza with a cornmeal crust
- Oven-n-Shaker : Pizza
- Sizzle Pie : A PDX Classic, vegan options
Burgers Link to heading
- Little Big Burger : Small, but good hamburgers; truffle fries; various locations
- Bless Your Heart Burger : Good burgers
- SuperDeluxe : Good burgers
- Killer Burger : Greasy, but good burgers
- Dick’s Primal Burger : Burgers
- Burgerville : PNW burger chain
Lunch / Dinner Link to heading
- Ava Genes : Italian
- BAES Chicken : My favorite PDX Fried Chicken
- Grain & Gristle : farm-to-table
- OP Public House : Good, local sausages
- Din Tai Fung : Taiwan style dumplings
- XLB : Chinese comfort food, specializing in it’s namesake, xiao long bao
- Teoto : Arepas / Venezuelan
- Boxer Ramen : Ramen
- Boxer Bento : Bento boxes by the Bento Ramen folks
- Shigezo :Izakaya / Ramen
- Afuri : Japanese Ramen Chain
- Bamboo Sushi : Good, high end sushi
- Murata : Pretty good sushi
- Kenny & Zuke’s : Deli, try the pastrami
- Lardo : burgers/sandwiches
- Olympia Provisions : meat/sausages
- Cafe Mingo : Italian
- Ned Ludd : Seasonal / NW / everything is cooked in a wood fired oven.
- Thai Bloom : Thai food
- Decarli : Italian
- Boriken : Puerto Rican
- Sammich : Sandwiches (affiliated with Pastrami Zombie food cart)
- Marukin Ramen : Good Ramen
- Xico : Mexican
- Toki : Korean / Korean Fried Chicken
Bar / Drinks Link to heading
- Multnomah Whiskey Library : Whiskey library, probably need a reservation
- Whisky Soda Lounge : if you just want the Pok Pok wings, other snacks & beer
Desserts Link to heading
- Salt-n-Straw : Ice Cream
- Fifty Licks : Ice Cream
- What’s the Scoop : Ice Cream
- Blue Star Donuts : Adult Donuts
- Ruby Jewel : Ice Cream, Salt & Straw / Fifty Licks are better, but Ruby Jewel is good
- Petunia’s : Vegan Pies and Pastries
- Voodoo : Classic PDX donut place
Coffee Link to heading
Misc Fast Food Link to heading
- Café Yumm! : PNW style bowls. Try the YUMM Sauce
- Pizza Schmiza : better than other fast food pizza anyway
To Try Link to heading
- Renata : Italian
- Le Pigeon
- Mucca Osteria : Italian
- Marrakesh : Moroccan
- Coquine
- Higgins : Farm to Table
- Nostrana : Italian
- Kornblatz : “NY Style” delia
- Gallo Nero : Italian
- Hayden’s Grill : American - Brunch - In the burbs
- Luc lac : Vietnamese
- Skamania Lodge : (brunch) (Stephenson, Washington)
- Virtuous Pie : Pizza
- Corner 14 : Food Cart Pod in Oregon City
RIP (Closed/Out of Business) Link to heading
- Tasty-n-Alder : American “tapas”; personal favorite; also does dinner - Disolving
- Tasty-n-Daughters : Like Tasty-n-Alder, but more “taverny” - Disolving
- Toro Bravo : Tapas; parent restaurant to Tasty-n-Alder - Disolving
- Pok Pok : Thai street food, get the wings - Closed
- Beast : Fancy, six course, prix-fixe menu - Closed
- Off the Waffle : Waffles - Closed
- Aviary - Closed
- Wong’s King - Dim Sum - Closed
- Courier Coffee
- Brew Dr. Tea - AKA Townshend’s, Brew Dr. - Closed - Focusing on Kombucha sold in grocery stores
- Bundy’s Bagels : Arguably the best bagels in PDX - 😫
- Ox : Argentinian Steak House
- La Moule