Baker & Spice Like List
Baker Julie Richardson's small-batch neighborhood bakery is a favorite for its impeccable cookies, pastries, breads, cakes, and other treats.
Hillsdale
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Bakeshop Like List
This bakery from revered pastry chef Kim Boyce uses heirloom, whole-grain flours to achieve its irresistible baked goods.
Rose City Park
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Bang Bang
Co-owned by Kate Wood, this late-night Thai hangout serves drinking snacks and comfort food like chicken wings, curries, and curried fry bowls, plus cocktails like passionfruit daiquiris and old fashioneds.
Cully
Pickup, dine-in

Bar Norman Like List
Acclaimed sommelier Dana Frank's chic bar pours quaffable natural wine and snacks from Olympia Provisions, Cowbell, Fulamingo, and Little T.
Hosford-Abernethy
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Bete-Lukas
This warm, enduring Ethiopian standby, owned by Gelila Tesfu and her husband Peter and tucked away on the second floor of a building on SE Division Street, is beloved for its veggie and meat combos, spongy injera (Ethiopian flatbread), and other staples.
Richmond
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Cafe Olli Like List
This worker-owned cafe serves scratch-made baked goods courtesy of co-owner and pastry chef Siobhan Speirits (who you may know from her project Saint Frances), along with wood-fired pizzas, salads, handmade pasta, sandwiches on house-baked bread, charcuterie, and other wood-oven-baked dishes. EverOut associate editor Janey Wong has all the details.
King
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Chelo Like List
The Mexican pop-up Chelo, run by former Nightingale Like List co-owner and chef Luna Contreras and bartender Michelle Ruocco, is currently based inside Dame Like List and focuses on seasonally driven street snacks, pastries, and drinks, made with local ingredients and deriving inspiration from Contreras's grandmother's restaurant in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Contreras has competed on Netflix's Snack vs. Chef and recently revealed her plans to open a snack bar Like List , which we're anxiously awaiting.
Hosford-Abernethy
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Coquine
Chef Katy Millard’s charming, seasonal, locally sourced restaurant currently offers lunch and dinner for takeout, as well as produce and goods straight from local farms like Black Locust Farm and Wobbly-Cart Farm. And don't forget about their famous chocolate chip cookies, which the Portland Mercury's Suzette Smith has raved about in the past.
Mt. Tabor
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Doe Donuts Like List
Portland's first dedicated vegan donut shop, owned by Carly Sitner and Crystal Wegener, fries up plant-based creations in whimsical flavors like salted vanilla bean, French toast, and the signature "Doe" donut (house-made pink strawberry milk and sprinkles). The confections have earned praise from the likes of Phil Rosenthal of Somebody Feed Phil Like List .
Hollywood District
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Erica's Soul Food
Erica Montgomery's soul food cart has gained a loyal following for its Southern menu of dishes like "soul bowls" (stuffed with delights like cornbread, greens, mac and cheese, and gravy) and Atlanta-style hot lemon pepper wings.
King
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Friendship Kitchen Like List
This warm, welcoming Vietnamese restaurant from Trang Nguyen serves vegan egg rolls, fried chicken wings and cauliflower "wings," bún bò Huế, cơm tấm, and lemongrass chicken bowls, in addition to cocktails like the "Fresh Off the Boat" (lime juice, kumquat, simple syrup, mint, coconut soda, and rum) and the "Ho Chi Mama" (lychee puree, simple syrup, lemon, Chambord and vodka).
Kerns
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Güero Like List
Portland Mercury contributor Heather Arndt Anderson writes of Megan Sanchez's restaurant, "There are so many beautiful components to Güero's tortas: creaminess provided by the beans, avocado, and crema; crispness brought by the bread's toasted interior and bed of shaved cabbage; the tangy hot sauce and pickled onions with cooling crema and cotija. It's a balancing act of textural contrasts, flawlessly performed by one sandwich. The omnivorous options are no slouches, either; pollo pibil is tender hunks of Draper Valley chicken cooked in a citrus-achiote slurry with banana leaf for herbal backdrop, and the carnitas is similarly well sourced and well-executed."
Kerns
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Harlow Like List
Brian Yaeger writes of this primarily plant-based restaurant co-owned by Jackie Sappington, "Take it from a carnivore: Harlow serves straight-up amazing food. This mostly vegan, gluten-free café serves jalapeño cashew cheese instead of pepper jack. Kale is listed on the menu as often as pork belly appears on most others. In this non-satirical Harloworld, tempeh and quinoa are fungible counterparts to eggs and tots. The Outlaw Scramble (which can include eggs if you deign) is a bountiful heap of chipotle black bean chili, dark greens, and wilted spinach topped with the aforementioned cashew matter along with a scoop of guac and a mound of brown rice (or quinoa) on the side. Collectively, the faintly smoky, tangy/savory concoction impresses across the spectrum of texture, flavor, and heartiness. And lest ye think there’s no room for decadence, hidden among the spirulina and echinacea juices and smoothies is the Stumblebee, a hedonistic mélange of chocolate, peanut butter, and banana. Then again, cacao nibs are a superfood."
Hawthorne
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Ice Queen Like List
This native- and Chicana-owned plant-based frozen dessert shop makes treats like paletas, ice cream, "thiccflurries," and hot chocolate bombs. Pop flavors range from mangonada and "Oatchata" (cinnamon and oat milk) to the "Tickle My Pickle"—Suzette Smith wrote of that particular eyebrow-raising flavor, "The Tickle My Pickle bar had a full-blown dill spear frozen in there. I had my reservations, but the tastes really worked. The salty brine never wavered in its vinegar deliciousness, and that dill wedge surprise had me engaged right down to the personalized Ice Queen popsicle stick."
Hosford-Abernethy
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Kachka Like List
No one does Eastern European comfort food quite like chef Bonnie Morales's acclaimed Kachka. The restaurant has plenty of options to warm your soul from within, including mushroom stroganoff, rabbit in a clay pot, and pelmeni.
Buckman
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Lauretta Jean's Like List
Few days couldn't be improved with a slice of flaky pie or cake from this charming bakery named for owner Kate McMillen's grandmother. 
Richmond
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Lovely's Fifty-Fifty Like List
Sarah Minnick's acclaimed pizzeria serves exquisite artisan pies with seasonally inspired toppings like squash and ricotta or chanterelle mushrooms.
Boise
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Mama Đút Like List
Thuy Pham's Vietnamese pop-up-turned-restaurant specializes in vegan Vietnamese food, with remarkably realistic plant-based versions of crispy pork belly, chicken wings, and other meats. Since opening in November 2020, the spot has grown into a huge sensation, even garnering Pham a James Beard nomination.
Buckman
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Mirisata Like List
The hit Sri Lankan pop-up-turned-restaurant Mirisata is entirely BIPOC worker-owned and serves vegan variations of dishes like rice and curry plates and kottu roti (a famous Sri Lankan street food typically made with godhamba roti and vegetables, eggs and/or meat, and spice).
Buckman
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Nong's Khao Man Gai
Portland Mercury food critic Andrea Damewood writes of James Beard-nominated chef and owner Nong Poonsukwattana's iconic restaurant, "Anyone who cares about food in this town has likely eaten Nong's Khao Man Gai dozens of times: an $8 bundle of joy wrapped in butcher paper with chicken (white or dark meat, or a blend), rice, a few cucumbers, and soup. Extras include the mandatory chicken skins or the less-required chicken-fat poached livers, each $1. Nong has clearly mastered the art of specialization. She set out to make top-notch chicken and rice, and that's been done."
Downtown, Buckman
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Normandie Like List
Andrea Damewood praises this coastal-inspired bistro, co-owned by Amanda Cannon Winquist and Heather Kintler, for its "addictive blend of textures and flavor."
Buckman
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Nostrana Like List
Veteran chef and six-time James Beard Award finalist Cathy Whims takes inspiration from her Italian travels at this beloved restaurant.
Buckman
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Petunia's Pies and Pastries Like List
Owner Lisa Clark's vegan and gluten-free bakery has been featured in publications like Food & Wine and the New York Times and serves cupcakes, pastries, doughnuts, bars, cookies, cakes, and more.
Downtown
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República Like List
The Mexico-forward restaurant co-founded by pastry chef Olivia Bartruff serves tasting menus grounded in history and culture, with seasonal and locally sourced ingredients. Servers educate guests on the significance of each gorgeously plated dish so they can appreciate the full context of what they're about to eat.
Pearl District
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St. Beatrix Like List
Offerings at chef and co-owner Jessie Smith's whimsical Northeast Portland bakery (formerly Bushel and Peck Bakeshop Like List ) include pastries like scones, croissants, biscuits, muffins, cookies, macarons, galettes, and brioche rolls, as well as bread, breakfast sandwiches, breakfast burritos, avocado toast, espresso, and specialty drinks like salted caramel chai, lavender matcha, and "pink moon" (a steamed drink with beet, rose, oat milk, and rose bitters). Specialty cakes, pies, and tarts are also available for private orders.
King
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