Where the farm, the cart and the roastery meet.
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Portland eats from the farm, the cart, and the roastery. The city's food story is the Willamette Valley on a plate: berries, hazelnuts, mushrooms, salmon, lamb from the Cascades, and Pinot Noir from Dundee, 30 miles south. The food carts are first-class restaurants here, not novelty. Cartopia on Hawthorne, Prost Marketplace on Mississippi and a sprawl of pods across the eastside feed the city for $10 a plate. The coffee scene set the third-wave template for the country, with Stumptown's 1999 Division Street roastery still pulling Hairbender espresso and Heart, Coava, Push x Pull and Sey-style roasters carrying it forward. Doughnuts, pastry and pizza all do canonical Portland versions: Voodoo's bacon-maple, Pip's chai-and-doughnut counter, Apizza Scholls's 18-inch pies and Lovely's Fifty Fifty's whole-grain crust. The Pinot list at any decent room is local.
Guided tour · 3 hours
Find out what the food cart hype is about in the food cart capital of the world. On this walking tour you'll discover global food & drinks, and learn fun history in th...
Guided tour · 2h 30m
Walk around the bustling streets of Downtown Portland with your local guide and discover why Portland is the coffee and donut capital of the world.
Guided tour · 3 hours
Savor a variety of wines from the Willamette Valley at 3 winery tasting rooms in Portland. Enjoy small food pairings and learn about the wine-making process and the hi...
The plates that define eating in Portland.
Portland's most photographed pastry: a yeast-raised maple-glazed doughnut bar topped with two strips of crisp bacon. The Voodoo Doughnut signature since 2003, on the menu at the Old Town shop daily.
Where Voodoo Doughnut Old Town, Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai
Where to eat Bacon Maple Bar in Portland →Northern Thai curry-noodle soup: egg noodles in a coconut-curry broth with braised chicken, crisp fried noodles on top, pickled mustard greens and lime.
Where OK Chicken & Khao Soi, Hat Yai Belmont
Where to eat Khao Soi in Portland →Thai poached chicken and rice: rice cooked in chicken stock, poached breast on top, with the house ginger-soybean-garlic sauce that finishes the plate.
Where Nong's Khao Man Gai
Where to eat Khao Man Gai in Portland →Oregon's signature pie, made from the state's signature berry: a deep-purple cross developed at Oregon State in 1956, with a flavour somewhere between blackberry and raspberry but darker and more wine-like.
Where Lauretta Jean's, Ken's Artisan Bakery, Sweedeedee, Cheryl's on 12th
Where to eat Marionberry Pie in Portland →Pacific Northwest crab cake made with hand-picked sweet Oregon Coast Dungeness crab, very little binder, panko-dusted and pan-fried golden, served with a Meyer lemon aioli on a bed of butter lettuce.
Where Le Pigeon, Tusk, Olympia Provisions Southeast, Andina
Where to eat Dungeness Crab Cake in Portland →A handful of the places we send friends to when they are in Portland.
James Beard winner Gabriel Rucker's communal-table bistro on East Burnside, Portland's most decorated French room since 2006 with chef's counter walk-ins.
OrderFoie gras profiteroles with caramel ice cream
Earl Ninsom, Sam Smith and Eric Nelson's Northern Thai room in Portland reopened the OG Pok Pok building in January 2026 with khao soi and grilled chicken.
OrderKhao soi with extra crispy egg noodles on top
Earl Ninsom's Bangkok-Chinatown room in Portland's Montavilla neighbourhood, Portland Monthly's 2023 Restaurant of the Year for Thai-Chinese hawker cooking.
OrderCrispy fried oysters with chili jam
The Earl Ninsom, Eric Nelson and Matt Vicedomini collaboration on N Williams in Portland, where Thai marinade meets Texas-style smoked beef brisket.
OrderWhite curry with burnt brisket ends over jasmine rice
Peter Cho and Sun Young Park's family-table Korean room in the Kerns neighbourhood of Portland, The Oregonian's 2017 Restaurant of the Year.
OrderThe dumpling and noodle prix fixe
Bonnie Morales's Russian and Georgian room in southeast Portland, with infused vodkas, pelmeni dumplings and the city's most authoritative zakuski spread.
OrderThe Siberian pelmeni with brown butter and vinegar
Converted warehouses west of the river, the Pearl runs from Burnside up to the rail yards. Date-night Italian, Peruvian, and the city's design-set restaurants.
Best for: Date night, Peruvian, Italian, Wine bars
Twenty blocks of NE Alberta Street between MLK and 33rd, where the ice cream queues form and the bakeries open at seven. Galleries, cocktails, brunch.
Best for: Brunch, Ice cream, Indian, Pizza
SE Division between 11th and 60th is the city's food row, with the original Pok Pok building, Stumptown's 1999 roastery and a line of bakeries.
Best for: Thai, Pizza, Italian, Coffee
Twin north-south corridors in north Portland where the cart pods, the new pizza rooms, and the dessert bars cluster. Brunch crowds on weekends.
Best for: Food carts, Pizza, Brunch, Desserts
SE Hawthorne and Belmont run parallel through the Buckman and Sunnyside neighbourhoods. Cartopia pod, Apizza Scholls, the dive bars with fried chicken.
Best for: Food carts, Pizza, Wine bars, Dive bars
The 700 block of East Burnside is the most decorated stretch in the city, with Le Pigeon, Canard, Heart Roasters and Tusk inside a five-minute walk.
Best for: French, Coffee, Middle Eastern, Tasting menus
Bacon Maple Bar
Portland's most photographed pastry: a yeast-raised maple-glazed doughnut bar topped with two strips of crisp bacon
Khao Soi
Northern Thai curry-noodle soup: egg noodles in a coconut-curry broth with braised chicken, crisp fried noodles on top, pickled mustard greens and lime
Khao Man Gai
Thai poached chicken and rice: rice cooked in chicken stock, poached breast on top, with the house ginger-soybean-garlic sauce that finishes the plate
Marionberry Pie
Oregon's signature pie, made from the state's signature berry: a deep-purple cross developed at Oregon State in 1956, with a flavour somewhere between blackberry and raspberry but darker and more wine-like
Dungeness Crab Cake
Pacific Northwest crab cake made with hand-picked sweet Oregon Coast Dungeness crab, very little binder, panko-dusted and pan-fried golden, served with a Meyer lemon aioli on a bed of butter lettuce
Downtown
Downtown west of the river runs from the Park Blocks to Burnside Bridge
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Portland Suites Airport East
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Rodeway Inn & Suites Portland - Jantzen Beach
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Super 8 by Wyndham Portland Airport
With a stay at Super 8 by Wyndham Portland Airport in Portland (Parkrose), you'll be within a 5-minute driv...
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Ramada by Wyndham Portland
Located in Portland (Hazelwood), Ramada by Wyndham Portland is within a 10-minute drive of Clackamas Town C...
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Portland International Guesthouse
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Motel 6 Portland, OR - North
Located in Portland, Motel 6 Portland, OR - North is in the business district, within a 5-minute drive of D...
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Red Lion Hotel Portland Airport
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Bridgeway Inn & Suites Portland Airport
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Econo Lodge Portland City Center
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Staypineapple, Hotel Rose, Downtown Portland
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Portland Pensione
With a stay at Portland Pensione in Portland, you'll be within a 15-minute walk of Moda Center and Veterans...
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WoodSpring Suites Portland North Gresham
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Peak food season: June through October, when the Willamette Valley harvest peaks. May to early June brings strawberries and asparagus. July is stone fruit. September is mushrooms, hazelnuts and Pinot Noir release.
Local dining hours: Lunch 11:30-14:30, Dinner 17:30-22:00. Most kitchens close by 22:00 on weeknights, 22:30 on weekends. Brunch runs 09:00-15:00 on weekends.
Tipping: Service is not included. 18 to 20 percent on dine-in is standard; 22 percent for excellent service. Counter and food cart: tip jar, $1 to $2 per plate.
Portland's signature dishes include Bacon Maple Bar, Khao Soi, Thai BBQ Brisket Curry, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir flight, Cardamom-Chai Doughnut Flight. See our signature dishes chapter for where to eat each.
TableJourney editors map Portland by district. Pearl District, Alberta Arts District, Division/Clinton, Mississippi/Williams are among the strongest for food, each with its own guide.
Editor picks in Portland include Le Pigeon, Langbaan, Departure, plus the full fine dining chapter on TableJourney.
TableJourney covers 5 editor-picked food tours in Portland, with what each shows you and how much to budget.
TableJourney's Portland dietary chapter covers vegan, vegetarian, gluten_free, halal venues, each editor-picked with what to order and how to ask.