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1. James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Jonathan Jones
2. James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Jonathan Jones

1. James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Timothy Wastell

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1. James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Sarah Schafer

1. USA Today Restaurants of the Year
2. James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
3. James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Kari Shaughnessy

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1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Jack Strong

1. James Beard Awards 2023 · Winner · Best New Restaurant
2. James Beard Awards 2024 · Winner · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Gregory Gourdet
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2. James Beard Awards 2023 · Winner · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Vince Nguyen
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1. USA Today Restaurants of the Year
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1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
2. James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Gabriel Rucker
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Each dinner follows a literal script, with courses named Acts I through V and a menu built around a short story or novel that changes every six weeks. Nodoguro is an intimate Japanese omakase tucked into a downtown building, where the chef composes each plate in front of you at the bar. Ryan Roadhouse sources his rice from Hokkaido, and the whole thing moves with the quiet precision of someone who has thought very hard about the order of things.

1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Ryan Roadhouse
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3. Portland Monthly The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now

Sommelier Brent Braun runs the cellar here, with a wine list heavy on Riesling, Oregon producers, and natural bottles, plus small-batch collaborations with local winemakers usually poured by the glass. The kitchen leans seasonal and vegetable-forward, the kind of room where the food earns its place alongside the wine rather than playing second fiddle. A James Beard Semifinalist for Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program, this chic Hawthorne wine restaurant draws the crowd that actually reads the back label.

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3. James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program

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1. James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Carlo Lamagna
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2. Portland Monthly Khao man gai · Portland’s Most Iconic Dishes

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The dining room is built to look like a Soviet dacha, complete with turquoise shutters and diagonal wood paneling modeled on the owner's great-grandparents' cottage. Kachka is a full-service Eastern European restaurant where the menu runs from happy-hour zakuski and herring salads to Siberian pelmeni and rabbit braised in a clay pot. Horseradish-infused vodka from the team's own distillery handles the rest. The New York Times named it among Portland's best.

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1. The New York Times The Restaurant List
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1. James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Thomas Pisha-Duffly
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3. Esquire #30 · The Best New Restaurants in America

1. Time Out The best bakeries in America

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3. Portland Monthly Cao lầu · Portland’s Most Iconic Dishes

1. Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
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Portland's original farm-to-table restaurant has been around forever, and after a near-death experience a couple of years ago, a social media S.O.S. brought the regulars flooding back. The dining room is a proper sit-down affair, seasonal and ingredient-driven, with a rustic bistro in back that runs a serious burger and one of the better beer lists downtown. A block from the Arlene Schnitzer, it's the obvious pre-concert answer.

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3. Portland Monthly Charcuterie · Portland’s Most Iconic Dishes

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A pizza shop in Beaverton where the dough is made with a biga starter, splitting the difference between Neapolitan softness and New York chew, then topped with flavors drawn from Asian pantries. The combination landed Hapa on the 50 Top Pizza USA list. The room is warm and the kitchen moves fast, which matters when half of Beaverton decides to show up at once. Original without being weird about it.

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Wood-fired oven anchoring an open kitchen, high ceilings, warm wood everywhere: Nostrana reads like the kind of Italian restaurant Portland genuinely needed someone to get right. Chef Cathy Whims built the menu around regional Italian cooking and Pacific Northwest ingredients, with pizza holding its own among the broader offerings. The naturally leavened dough and housemade mozzarella keep purists happy without making the rest of the menu feel like an afterthought.

1. 50 Top Pizza #48 · 50 Top Pizza USA
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1. Bon Appétit #9 · America's Best New Restaurants
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The counter has one view worth having: the ovens, going all day. Scottie's is a New York-style slice shop on SE Division, small enough that one booth and a high table constitute the seating plan, with a couple of benches outside when Portland cooperates. The menu runs classics alongside a vodka slice and a reimagined Hawaiian, with a grandma square that earns its square footage. Counter staff will talk you through it without making it a whole thing.

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1. Bon Appétit #6 · America's Best New Restaurants
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1. Eater The 38 Best Restaurants and Food Carts in Portland

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1. Portland Monthly The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now

1. Eater The Best Coffee Shops in Portland

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1. Portland Monthly The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now

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1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Winner · Outstanding Bar
2. James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Outstanding Bar
3. 50 Best #63 · North America's 50 Best Bars

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1. Portland Monthly Korean pork shoulder · Portland’s Most Iconic Dishes

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1. Eater Portland’s 8 Best Rooftops for Views, Drinks, and Sun

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1. The New York Times The Restaurant List

1. Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants

1. The New York Times The Restaurant List
2. Esquire #16 · The Best New Restaurants in America

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1. Esquire #16 · The Best New Restaurants in America

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