If your New Year's resolution involves reevaluating your meat and/or dairy consumption, adopting a vegan diet, or going plant-based for the annual "Veganuary" challenge, you've got plenty of delicious options to ease you through the transition: Portland was recently ranked the most popular city for vegans in 2020, based on search data from Google. We've rounded up this list of vegan restaurants worth trying, from vegan Detroit-style pizza at Boxcar Pizza Like List to comfort food from Plant Based Papi Like List . Check out our food and drink guide for more ideas.

Aviv Like List
Tal Caspi's Pearl District restaurant (which was recently vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti) and its new Killingsworth sibling Little Aviv offer "plant-based Middle Eastern magic" in the form of hummus, soy curl shawarma, falafel, smoked cashew Gouda mac and cheese, sandwiches, grain bowls, Impossible burgers, and coconut-based ice cream.
Southeast, North
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Avocadamama Like List
This food cart specializes in vegan mac and cheese. Opt for the "OG Mac" with cheesy rigatoni topped with breadcrumbs, or branch out into more adventurous flavors like buffalo cauliflower, shredded barbecue jackfruit, or taco jalapeño. They also sell home macaroni and cheese kits with their proprietary vegan cheese sauce, dry shell pasta, and breadcrumbs, as well as their cheese sauce all on its own.
Northeast
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Black Seed Burger Cult Like List
Everything at this burger joint started by four former Sizzle Pie employees can be made gluten-free or vegan. Portland Mercury contributor Suzette Smith writes in her column Takeout Club, "They've put thought into how to make all their food appealing to the various food methodologies they serve. For instance, Black Seed aren't reliant on vegan patties, but order plant-based, gluten-free ground chuck, from West Coast company Before the Butcher, so they can give it the pressed and charred taste of traditional burgers."
North
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Black Water Bar Like List
The stalwart spot for punk rock shows also has a great menu of vegan eats like seitan French dips, grilled Chao cheeze, and buffalo soy curl sandwiches. While we anxiously await the return of live music, they're available for takeout and delivery.
Northeast
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Boxcar Pizza Like List
This 100% plant-based pizza parlor specializes in Detroit-inspired pies. Suzette Smith writes, "Boxcar Pizza easily falls into the category of vegan food that you crave, even if you aren't vegan. The luscious imposter mozzarella and ricotta on Boxcar's Bianca pie may as well be real cheese for all its melted, gooey goodness. While walking home from Boxcar on a misty winter evening, I achieved a perfect hygge moment after chomping into a garlic piece buried inside seasonings of basil, sea salt, and red pepper flakes, all while grease ran into the palm of my hand."
Northeast
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Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine Like List
This hidden pho gem may not be fully vegan, but it has gained popularity with plant-based eaters for its copious veggie options. Suzette Smith writes, "Though they're most proud of their bone broth beef pho—their bone broth is cooked for 48-hours to get all that delicious flavor—Butterfly Belly is also an underground hit with gluten-free eaters, vegetarians, and vegans. Butterfly advertises a dedicated gluten-free menu, and their menu is vast—everything from sweet potato fries to Vietnamese fusion tofu tacos!" She also recommends their veggie-packed Garden Pho with shiitake mushroom broth.
Northeast
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DC Vegetarian Like List
This vegan joint slings hefty burgers, sandwiches, and subs as well as bagels and breakfast sandwiches.
Southeast
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Dinger’s Deli Like List
Satisfy your yen for hearty, stick-to-your-ribs sandwiches with the offerings from this East Coast-style plant-based deli, which serves pulled jackfruit Cuban sandwiches, vegetable meatball subs, "cheezesteak" hoagies, "chickun" parm sandwiches, and vegan grinders, plus veggie bowls, braised greens, avocado toast, and more.
Northeast
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Dirty Lettuce Like List
This BIPOC-owned Cajun/Southern food truck serves a menu of profoundly comforting vegan soul food. The Portland Mercury's Blair Stenvick writes, "The seitan-based chicken and ribs were firm and savory, and the crispy skin on the chicken was satisfying enough to rival KFC. I've never been one for plant-based seafood alternatives—something about trying to mimic fishiness feels wrong to me—but those fritters brought me back to a trip I took to North Carolina years ago. The classic Southern sides rounded the meal out perfectly."
Northeast
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Fermenter Like List
The "friendly neighborhood beneficial bacteria emporium" has moved into the Farm Spirit Like List space. The new location focuses on takeout, with a selection of hot sauce, vegetable kraut, nut-based spreads, and plant-based cheese, as well as breakfast with dishes like breakfast bowls and tartines on Saturday mornings. There will still be some onsite dining, including a couple of tables indoors and covered, heated street seating. The space also has new kits for making kombucha and sauerkraut, for all your home fermentation station needs. 
Southeast
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Ice Queen Like List
This native- and Chicana-owned plant-based frozen dessert shop makes treats like ice cream, paletas, and even TikTok-trendy hot chocolate bombs.
Southeast
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Ichiza Kitchen Like List
Cyrus Ichiza's pan-Asian spot serves big, comforting bowls of "chicken" adobo and noodle soups, plus other veg-friendly recreations of popular dishes, like dim sum rice rolls, crab rangoon, and chili oil wontons.
Southwest
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Kate’s Ice Cream Like List
This ice creamery makes 100% vegan ice cream using organic coconut and cashew milk and local, seasonal produce, with flavors like marionberry cobbler and salted peanut butter brittle.
Northeast
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Mama Đút Like List
Thuy Pham's Vietnamese pop-up, which she started at the beginning of the pandemic while unable to continue her usual job as a hairdresser, specializes in vegan Vietnamese food, with remarkably realistic plant-based versions of crispy pork belly, chicken wings, and other meats. In November, she opened a brick-and-mortar restaurant. The menu includes bao, vegan "phish sauce wangs," grilled "pork-less" skewers and "pork-less" skins, My Tho noodle soup, steam rice dumplings, mochi snowball cakes, sweet and salty sesame coconut corn pudding, Vietnamese coffee cheesecake from Muse Cheesecakes, and ube and Vietnamese coffee tarts from Toast'd. Suzette Smith writes of the restaurant's vegan pork belly buns, "The marinated fake pork is soft, the buns are steamed, and the delicious homemade kimchi and vegetables hit with the perfect spicy fermented punch."
Southeast
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Mirisata Like List
This hit Sri Lankan pop-up-turned-restaurant is entirely BIPOC worker-owned and serves an all-vegan menu. One of the most popular dishes is a rice and curry plate with a variety of curries served over banana leaves. They also have a vegan version of kottu roti (a famous Sri Lankan street food typically made with godhamba roti and vegetables, egg and/or meat, and spice), made with meatless Chick'n or polos (jackfruit).
Southeast
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