The Best Places in Portland OR
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The building has been housing itinerant strangers since the 1800s, first as a sailors' hostel, now as a low-budget boutique hotel in Chinatown. Rooms range from hostel-style bunks to private en-suites, so the price you pay shapes the experience considerably. The café and bar runs all-day breakfast and light fare, and a rooftop deck is rarer here than you'd think. Close to the river and just north of downtown, it makes a practical base for the rest of Portland.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A fleet of cruiser bikes parked out front hints at the Atticus's personality: a contemporary boutique hotel that takes itself seriously without losing its sense of fun. It holds a Michelin Key and sits in the heart of walkable McMinnville wine country, about halfway between Portland and the coast. Rooms run from snug Micro Studios to a full penthouse, and the in-house restaurant leans Mediterranean and Pacific Northwest.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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The subterranean thermal-pool sequence is the real pitch here: this Alberta Arts District hotel runs far deeper, literally, than your average boutique stay. Rooms come with full kitchens and proper workspaces, and the low-rise neighborhood means views that don't disappoint. A Japanese-Portuguese restaurant, a garden bar café, and a coffee shop round things out for guests who surface long enough to eat.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 104. Matt's BBQ Tacos
Barbecue
Pillowy housemade flour tortillas wrapped around smoked meats are the whole argument here. Matt Vicedomini built his name on Texas-style barbecue, and Texas Monthly noticed, but this casual taco counter is where that smoked-meat skill gets genuinely interesting. Pork belly with guacamole and pickled onions, brisket in the breakfast tacos available all day, smoked mushroom fajitas for the non-meat crowd. Bon Appétit named it one of America's Best New Restaurants.
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- Bon Appétit Bon Appétit: #9 · America's Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times The New York Times: The 25 Best Restaurants in Portland, Ore., Right Now
- Bon Appétit #9 · America's Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Portland, Ore., Right Now
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Rank 104. Nostrana
Italian
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.
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- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #48 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 23 Best Restaurants in Portland, Oregon
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Rank 108. Apizza Scholls
New York-style Pizzeria
You can't build your own pizza here, and that's the point. The menu lists eighteen pies, each already balanced by a chef who spent years making bread first, and you can feel it in the dough, a long-fermented thing with real acidity and char underneath. Fresh-sliced cheese, no customization, and they sell out, so booking ahead saves heartbreak. A small, no-frills pizza parlor on Hawthorne that tastes entirely like itself.
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- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: 50 Top Pizza USA Excellent Pizzerias
- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza USA Excellent Pizzerias
- Portland Monthly The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
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Rank 108. Nimblefish
Sushi
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- Bon Appétit #6 · America's Best New Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants and Food Carts in Portland
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Rank 108. Scottie's Pizza Parlor
Pizzeria
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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- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: 50 Top Pizza USA Excellent Pizzerias
- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza USA Excellent Pizzerias
- Portland Monthly The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
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Rank 111. Five Spice Seafood + Wine Bar
Pacific Northwest Pan-Asian Seafood
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Rank 111. Ken’s Artisan Pizza
Wood-fired Pizzeria
The wood-fired oven scents the whole room before you've found a seat, which is the idea. Ken's is a casual pizza spot on SE 28th where the dough ferments long and the crust lands somewhere between Neapolitan and what Portland thinks pizza should be, which turns out to be a persuasive argument. Ken Forkish runs the show, and the wine list is a step above what the no-reservations vibe might lead you to expect. It placed on 50 Top Pizza USA.
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- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #43 · 50 Top Pizza World
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #10 · 50 Top Pizza USA
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Rank 111. King Tide Fish & Shell
Contemporary American
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Rank 111. Roots Restaurant and Bar
Pacific Northwest
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Rank 111. Serratto
Mediterranean
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Rank 111. WildFin American Grill
Seafood
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Thirty-five acres of Willamette Valley vineyard and woodland, less than an hour from Portland, make a convincing argument for never going back to the city. The Allison Inn & Spa is a full luxury resort in pinot noir country, where the architecture nods vaguely European but never forgets it's in the Pacific Northwest. Wine country has been creeping toward Napa-level ambition for a while now, and this place has been leading the charge.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Eight rooms in Oregon wine country, with platform beds, hardwood floors, and modernist furnishings that feel more boutique hotel than barn conversion. A European-style breakfast arrives at your door before you head out to the vineyards. The bocce court and croquet lawn look out over farmland in every direction, which makes the whole setup feel a little surreal, in the best, quietest possible way.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 125. Bernstein's Bagels
Bakery
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Rank 125. Clyde Common
Cocktail Bar
The zinc-topped bar inside the Ace Hotel is where Jeffrey Morgenthaler built his reputation, and Portland's cocktail crowd hasn't forgotten it. Clyde Common is technically a big, open dining hall, but the bar runs the show here, with vintage stools filling up fast under a double-height ceiling loud with conversation. The food is genuinely good, but nobody's coming just for dinner.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
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- Eater Eater: Best Desserts
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Rank 125. Grana
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The open oven sits at the center of the room like a piece of furniture someone actually thought about, which tells you a lot about Grana before the pizza arrives. This is a contemporary Neapolitan pizza restaurant on East Burnside, bright and carefully put together without feeling precious. The dough runs high-hydration and long-fermented, San Marzano tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella alongside whatever's local. It landed at 26 on 50 Top Pizza USA.
The awards
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #26 · 50 Top Pizza USA
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Rank 125. Hapa Pizza
Neapolitan Pizzeria
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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- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #46 · 50 Top Pizza USA
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Javelina is a casual counter-style spot in Northeast Portland where frybread does the heavy lifting, as tacos with bison chili, as the bun on the powwow burger, or tossed in cinnamon sugar. The chef is quick to point out that wheat isn't native here, so the rest of the menu sticks to First Foods like elk, wild rice, and blue corn. Eater lists it among Portland's best, and Esquire counted it among 2025's best new restaurants in America.
The awards
- Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants and Food Carts in Portland
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Rank 125. OK Chicken and Khao Soi
Northern Thai
Slushy machines churn Technicolor drinks behind the bar, which sets the tone for this Northern Thai restaurant occupying the storied space where Pok Pok once stood. Earl Ninsom runs the room and the kitchen turns out gai yang chicken with a chargrilled, fish-sauce funk and a khao soi that makes you keep reaching for the bowl. It landed on the New York Times Restaurant List in 2026.
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- The New York Times The New York Times: 2026 · The Restaurant List
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Rank 125. Oven and Shaker
Italian
A long sloping entry leads you up into a warm, modern room where communal high tables split the space between a serious bar and proper wood-fired pizza. Ryan Magarian's cocktail program is the draw here, pairing classics and house originals with Italian street food from the kitchen. The design reads clean rather than cozy, which suits the crowd that comes as much for the drinks as anything coming out of that oven.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 134. Bake on the Run - Authentic Masterful Guyanese Cuisine
Guyanese Caribbean
A mother-and-son food cart in a Milwaukie food park, turning out Guyanese cooking that's rare in Portland and rarer nationally. The namesake bakes are fluffy, slightly sweet fried-dough pockets stuffed with anything from salt cod to Nutella, so lunch and dessert can share a single pastry. Curry and chow mein reflect Guyana's Indian and Chinese roots. It's cart-priced, with covered seating nearby, and Eater has put it on its list of the best in town.
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Rank 134. Bar Diane
Italian Wine Bar
Bar Diane is a wine bar in Northwest Portland where the hand-painted walls look like the rings left behind by a thousand glasses of rosé on a tablecloth. You can perch at the marble bar and get into the weeds on Oregon pinot, or grab a bistro table for a cocktail and a lobster roll. Pours run from affordable table wine to splurgy champagne, so nobody has to pretend to be a sommelier or a billionaire.
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- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The Best Bars in Portland
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Rank 134. Bob's Red Mill Whole Grain Store & Visitor's Center
Vegan Sandwich Shop
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 134. Bun Bo Hue Restaurant
Vietnamese Noodle Shop
This Lents noodle shop is named after its one big move, the spicy beef soup from central Vietnam, and it sees no reason to hedge. The broth runs meaty, shrimpy, and lemongrass-bright, with collagen-heavy cuts, pork blood cubes, and thick, slippery noodles. A plate of banana blossom, basil, mint, and lime arrives for you to dump in. Eater's list of Portland's best restaurants and food carts includes it. Dine in or call ahead.
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Rank 134. Casa Zoraya
Peruvian
The pisco sours here taste like someone in Lima is personally offended if they're made any other way. Casa Zoraya is a cozy Peruvian restaurant in the Piedmont neighborhood where ceviches arrive looking almost too composed to eat, and beef heart skewers on the starter menu separate the curious from the cautious. The back patio earns its reputation on a warm evening.
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Rank 134. Dar Essalam
Moroccan
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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Khachapuri, grilled kebabs, and khinkali dumplings in a low-lit room in downtown Vancouver, WA, which is not a sentence you'd expect to type. Dediko is a small Georgian restaurant, the kind that makes you wish this cuisine showed up more often in the Northwest. The menu runs through dips and grilled meat plates beyond the obvious staples, and the wine list pulls from Georgia too. Save room for the honey cake.
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 134. Dot's Cafe
Cocktail Bar
Dots Cafe is a neighborhood dive on Clinton Street where the vinyl booths, flocked wallpaper, and velvet portraits seem to have been told it's still around 2010, and nobody's corrected them. You order at the bar, which leaves time to study a menu of cheesy fries and vegan burgers. Cocktails are on offer, but a shot and a local beer fits the room. The patio has slushies and cheap rosé, and Portland Monthly lists it among the city's best bars.
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- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The Best Bars in Portland
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G-Love is a Northwest 21st Avenue restaurant that Portland Monthly calls the city's most Californian, which is a dry way of saying the vibe arrived from San Francisco and unpacked. The signature is a half avocado crusted in seeds to look like its own skin, stuffed with tuna poke, caviar optional. It's a sit-down dinner with a little coastal swagger, and it landed on the magazine's iconic dishes list and its 50 best.
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- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The Crusty Avocado · Portland’s Most Iconic Dishes
- Portland Monthly The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
- Portland Monthly The Crusty Avocado · Portland’s Most Iconic Dishes
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Rank 134. Hale Pele
Tiki Bar
A small bridge over a little moat takes you from a residential stretch of Northeast Broadway into what is, with commitment, a full tiki immersion. Woven palm walls, bamboo rafters, illuminated pufferfish, and three hand-carved tiki gods loom over the sunken bar while intermittent thunder rumbles and wisps of volcano smoke drift through. The rum-based cocktails are the actual point of the exercise, and nobody here seems to mind.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The Best Bars in Portland
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Rank 134. Horse Brass Pub
British Pub
This is an English-style pub on Belmont, low-ceilinged and wood-beamed, with decades of cigarette smoke apparently still living in the walls. The beer comes in proper 20-ounce pints, there are real metal-tipped darts, and the Scotch eggs and fish and chips have outlasted every menu update. Regulars fill it by evening, and the vintage posters, flags, and brass plaques suggest nobody has felt the need to redecorate since the Reagan administration.
The awards
- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The Best Bars in Portland
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Rank 134. Little Conejo
Mexican
The choriqueso at this counter-service taqueria in Vancouver, WA has a way of making the rest of the menu feel like a warmup act. Corn tortillas and griddled tortas get filled with battered fish, lengua, and chicken tinga, and the mezcal cocktails are sharper than you'd expect from a taco counter. The ordering process is its own small adventure, but the crowd figures it out eventually, and so will you.
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 134. Mucca Osteria
Italian
Servers in ties and vests refill your water after every sip, and warm focaccia arrives before you've fully settled in. Mucca Osteria is a downtown Italian restaurant operating on the old assumption that hospitality is the whole point, and the kitchen keeps pace: handmade pastas with a silky bite, burrata draped in long-aged prosciutto, scallops over Parmesan fonduta. A room that makes you slow down without making a fuss about it.
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Plant-based pan-Asian on Belmont, where the menu reads like a dare and the cocktails keep pace. Norah is a lively, colorful restaurant where pad Thai nachos and vegan rangoons share space with a whole roasted cauliflower drowned in red curry. A gochujang-pink mezcal margarita or a coconut-pandan Negroni handles the rest. The kind of place that makes skeptics stop explaining themselves.
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Rank 134. Palomar
Cuban-Inspired Cocktail Bar
Family portraits of the bartender's Cuban relatives line the upstairs walls, which tells you something about what kind of cocktail bar this is. Ricky Gomez, who came up through New Orleans institutions like Cure and Teardrop Lounge, channels his Miami-meets-NOLA-meets-Havana upbringing into a tropical menu where blenders run loud and the hospitality runs warmer than the drinks.
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- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2025 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The Best Bars in Portland
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Portland Monthly The Best Bars in Portland
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Rank 134. Puff Coffee
Coffee
A tiny black box of a coffee shop on SE Stark, Puff Coffee comes with a Stumptown pedigree and the occasional line of devoted early arrivals out front. The focus is single-origin beans, served as drip or a tight espresso, with the shop's clean, minimal interior quietly offset by an E.T. figurine nestled among vintage coffee makers. For the less orthodox, shroom lattes with lion's mane and chaga round things out.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The ‘It’ Coffee Shops Across America Right Now
- The Infatuation The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
- The Infatuation The ‘It’ Coffee Shops Across America Right Now
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 134. Ruse Crust Collective Vancouver Waterfront
Detroit-style Pizzeria
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Sandy Hut is a neighborhood dive on a traffic island on NE Sandy, now dwarfed by the apartment buildings that sprouted around it. It has been cleaned up a bit, so the food is better and the drinks cost more, like everywhere. Parents stop in after soccer practice for a pint and a shot, punks work the pool table and video poker, and the late-night crowd returns for hangover brunch. Portland's Best Bars list includes it.
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- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The Best Bars in Portland
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Rank 134. Screen Door - Eastside
Southern
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 134. Teardrop Cocktail Lounge
Cocktail Bar
The name lies a little: Teardrop is a square room with painted concrete walls, and the curve comes from the island bar itself, which bends the whole space into something warmer than the bones suggest. It's a serious cocktail lounge, the kind where the menu moves between classics, originals, and borrowed recipes from people who've thought hard about this stuff. Classic films flicker overhead, the lighting is kind, and a quiet Monday still feels like somewhere worth being.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The Best Bars in Portland
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Portland Monthly The Best Bars in Portland
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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Rank 134. Urdaneta
Spanish
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Rank 161. 1st Street Pocha
Korean
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- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
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- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 23 Best Restaurants in Portland, Oregon
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Rank 161. Better Days Cafe
Vietnamese Coffee Shop
The coffee shop on SE Division is painted superhero blue and stocked with Portland Cà Phê beans for Vietnamese-style drinks, pastries from HeyDay next door in the supply chain, and enough vinyl culture in its DNA that the occasional DJ set feels less like an event and more like a Tuesday. The ube coconut cloud, a non-caffeinated iced drink, does a slow cascade inside the glass that will make you stop mid-sip.
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Rank 161. Binh Minh Sandwiches
Vietnamese
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- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 23 Best Restaurants in Portland, Oregon
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Rank 161. Café Zamora
Coffee
Café Zamora is a small coffee shop on Powell where the beans come from the family's own farm in Guatemala, which makes "single origin" feel less like a menu term and more like a family tree. They roast on Tuesdays, so the bags on the shelf are fresher than most of your groceries. There are a few tables, a few counter seats, and an owner who'll chat while he pours, which is how first-timers turn into regulars.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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Campana is an Italian restaurant that started as a pop-up inside a tavern and kept going until it owned the building, which is the most Portland way to get a dining room. The chef's New York kitchen years show up in the meatballs and the clam-sauce linguine, and the gelato is good enough that other Italian spots around town have quietly started serving it. It made Portland Monthly's list of the 50 best restaurants.
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- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
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Rank 161. Carnelian Coffee
Geology-Themed Coffee
A Foster-Powell coffee shop where the decor leans into geology: carnelian specimens line the shelves, roasts carry names like Thunderegg, and the view from the patio is a gravel yard across the street, which fits the theme better than intended. The house-roasted coffee is carefully made, the room is cozy and russet-toned, and the whole thing feels quietly, pleasantly odd in a way that Portland pulls off without trying.
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Rank 161. Courier Coffee
Coffee
A hand-painted plywood sign out front announces a small, no-fuss coffee shop where a few tables, a pour-over, and a record player are the entire amenities package. The beans get roasted across the river and the pastries get baked in-house, so nobody's outsourcing the important parts. It shares its room with Soen, which means a coffee run can quietly turn into onigiri and shaved ice. It's on The Infatuation's list of Portland's best coffee shops.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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Deadstock is a tiny coffee shop tucked into a boutique hotel lobby, where vintage Nikes sit on shelves like museum pieces and the latte art sometimes wears little high-tops. The drinks have names like LeBronald Palmer and Zero Chill, and the soundtrack might be Marvin Gaye on vinyl. Sneakerheads, tourists, and neighborhood regulars share the few bar seats, no shoe knowledge required, just a tolerance for being judged by your footwear.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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Rank 161. Dirty Lettuce
Vegan Southern
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Rank 161. Duck House
Sichuan
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Rank 161. Either/Or
Coffee
A coffee shop and bar on North Williams where the mocktail menu gets as much attention as the espresso. Heart coffee comes in every format you'd expect, and the food leans into a shiitake sausage breakfast sandwich that earns its regulars. The Biggie Salty, a nonalcoholic Kahlua-style drink finished with cinnamon chocolate coffee salt, is the kind of thing that sounds like a joke until you order it twice.
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Rank 161. Farag’s
Egyptian Wine Bar
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This is an airport coffee counter in PDX that happens to be run by an independent Portland roaster, which means La Marzocco machines and a sleek, minimalist setup instead of the usual chain with a rotating cast of regrets. The seasonal lattes lean toward pairings like pear and bergamot, a lot of thought for someone clutching a boarding pass. It made The Infatuation's list of Portland's 25 best coffee shops, airport and all.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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Guilder is a roastery-run coffee shop tucked inside Powell's City of Books, which means your latte comes with a view of other people's reading lists. The drip gets proper respect here, though the seasonal drinks, like a cardamom rose cold brew under floral foam, are the ones to ask about. There's toast and even cocktails, and the clientele is mostly people holding one book and eyeing three more.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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Rank 161. Heart Coffee
Coffee
Heart is a Scandinavian-minimalist coffee shop on Burnside, and it's one of the places that helped put Portland on the third-wave map. The espresso leans light-roast, the pour-overs come with tasting notes like honeysuckle and cantaloupe, and there's no wifi, so nobody is camped out with a laptop and a single cortado. You drink the coffee, you look at the clean lines, and you leave. The Infatuation lists it among Portland's best coffee shops.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
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Rank 161. Jet Black
Vegan Coffee
Jet Black is a vegan coffee shop in Gateway, named after a Jawbreaker song, which tells you roughly what's on the stereo. They roast their own beans, default to two shots of espresso, and stock enough plant milks that hemp gets a seat. The front deck is spacious, the breakfast sandwich is an English muffin with a sausage patty and Mama Lil's peppers, and nobody seems to be performing anything.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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Rank 161. Ki’ikibáa
Yucatecan
Panuchos and salbutes, those fried corn tortillas piled with slow-roasted cochinita pibil, are the reason to come to this Yucatecan spot on NE 82nd. The dining room is modest and unassuming, the kind of place that would never brag about itself, which somehow makes the food feel even more surprising. Order broadly and share: the menu rewards the curious, and the soups, when they appear, are not to be passed over.
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- The New York Times The New York Times: The 25 Best Restaurants in Portland, Ore., Right Now
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Rank 161. La Perlita
Mexican Café
La Perlita is an Overlook coffee shop that treats the latte as a chance to bring in rosewater, cardamom, dulce de leche, and smoky chile pasilla. There's enough room to spread a laptop out, though the menu makes a strong case for abandoning your inbox. The mocha comes with chocolate and warm spices, and a concha under rainbow sprinkles sits next to it. The Infatuation put it on a list of Portland's best coffee shops.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 23 Best Restaurants in Portland, Oregon
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Rank 161. Matta Cafe
Colombian Coffee Shop
A Colombian family operation with a five-acre farm at its roots, Matta lands in Portland's Northwest District as a coffee shop that keeps one foot planted in Bogotá. Espresso drinks share the menu with cocktails and arepas, which is a tidy way to cover breakfast through happy hour. Warm woods and serious plant energy make it the kind of spot where laptops outnumber newspapers, which tells you all you need to know about the afternoon crowd.
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Rank 161. Merendero Estela
Honduran Caribbean
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Rank 161. Mole Mole
Mexican
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Rank 161. Never Coffee
Coffee
Never Coffee is a Belmont cafe and roastery where the lattes read like a dare: one comes with hops and dulce de leche, another with star anise and black licorice, and both somehow behave in the cup. The room is all cutout shapes and a bright green tiled floor, and the picnic tables out front go fast whenever Portland remembers the sun exists. Order at the counter, stay as long as the laptop battery allows.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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Nossa Familia is a coffee shop in Ladd's Addition that buys its beans straight from family farms in Brazil, which explains the subscription club and the loyal following. The room is bright, the espresso runs smooth and chocolatey, and the menu skips the flashy drinks, with one exception. The Bee Sting latte comes with local honey, cardamom, and a little cayenne, so it's the only thing here that fights back.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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Rank 161. Obon Shokudo
Vegan Japanese
Obon Shokudo is a small, bright Japanese comfort food spot on SE Grand where the whole menu happens to be vegan, a fact it mentions about as loudly as a houseplant. Udon comes in brothy curry or chilled with sesame, and the onigiri get a smear of miso made from things like hominy or pistachios. Fermented hot sauce and tofu get made in-house too. Portland Monthly put it on its 50 Best Restaurants list.
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- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
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Rank 161. Portland Cà Phê
Vietnamese Coffee Shop
This is a counter-service coffee shop that runs on Vietnamese robusta, the bolder, heavier-hitting cousin of the arabica your usual café leans on. The bánh mì comes stuffed enough that you'll wonder if the menu is a typo, and the seasonal drinks swing from jasmine tea with lychee and blackberry to a passionfruit espresso tonic. It's the rare café where people order lunch first and then remember they also wanted coffee.
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
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The chile oil wontons alone have pulled people across town to this downtown Sichuan restaurant, a sister to Sichuan City out in Happy Valley. The menu runs the full range of textures the cuisine is known for: crispy, tangy, soupy, and that particular mouth-numbing heat that makes you pause mid-bite. Order generously and expect your lips to tingle for a while afterward.
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Rank 161. Soro Soro
Korean Coffee Shop
Soro Soro is a small Korean coffee shop on East Burnside where the drinks come layered like geology, with black sesame-pandan cream, crispy rice, and Okinawan brown sugar. Yuzu sodas and cherry blossom slushes sit alongside cat-face cheesecakes and dog-shaped cookies, so expect a line of people photographing their order before anyone takes a sip. The Infatuation put it on its list of Portland coffee shops.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Coffee Shops In Portland
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