NEW OPENINGS AND RETURNS

Fuller's Coffee Shop Like List
Classics like chicken and waffles, stuffed hash browns, and Reuben sandwiches are back on the menu: After going on hiatus due to damage from a fire in February, the 75-year-old diner Fuller's Coffee Shop hosted its grand reopening on Wednesday. Go sit on one of their iconic red stools and enjoy a bottomless cup of hot coffee.
Pearl District
Pickup, delivery, dine-in

Mosaic Taphouse Like List
The craft beer scene can often feel like an exclusive club for straight white guys, but married couple Jarek and Laurence Oliver are setting out to change that with their new LGBTQ-friendly taproom Mosaic Taphouse, which opened in St. Johns last Saturday and features a menu of Vietnamese fusion small plates by Chem Gio alongside West Coast-style IPAs, lagers, pilsners, sours, porters, stouts, and other beers. (Personally, I'm verklempt over the story of the pair meeting in high school beneath a shooting star while playing Sardines.)
St. Johns
Pickup, dine-in

Royce' Chocolate Like List
This Japan-based chocolate shop chain, which specializes in creamy "Nama Chocolate" truffle bars made with Hokkaido milk, recently opened a location inside the Washington Square mall. As a salty-sweet fiend, I'm particularly intrigued by their chocolate-covered potato chips.
Tigard
Pickup

FUTURE OPENINGS

Tipsy Scoop Like List
Boozy ice cream is in Portland's future: The chain Tipsy Scoop, which operates locations in New York, Washington, DC, and Phoenix, is set to open an outpost at 3987 N Mississippi Ave this spring. Flavors range from dark chocolate whiskey salted caramel to cake batter vodka martini.
Boise

Toya Ramen & Bar Like List
Former Eem Like List chef Colin Yoshimoto, who honed his noodle-making skills early on in the pandemic, plans to open this casual ramen shop named in honor of his maternal grandmother in the former Danwei Canting Like List space by March.
Buckman

CLOSURES

Ecliptic Brewing Like List
Beer veteran John Harris's trailblazing galactic-themed brewery has been sold to the company Great Frontier Holdings and will close its brewpub after November 18. Harris wrote in an announcement, "The sale will allow me to pay back our debts and align the brand with a bigger entity to allow it to continue. Ecliptic beer will still be available in stores and restaurants; I will still be involved in the Ecliptic brand and beer development—just not in our current site."
Boise

Nico's Cantina Like List
Nico's Ice Cream owner Nico Vergara announced this week that his Cully restaurant Nico's Cantina will close at the end of the month. In an Instagram post, he wrote, "Between continued rising costs, the rapid growth of Nico’s Ice Cream, & life in general…Well, it’s just a lot. I am choosing to not see our closure as a failure. But, more so as a learning lesson."
Cully

OTHER FOOD NEWS

Ice Queen voted best vegan ice cream shop in America
The plant-based frozen treat palace Ice Queen Like List 's "thiccflurries," paletas, and soft serve are officially nationally acclaimed: The business was voted the best vegan ice cream shop in the country by the vegan magazine VegNews this week.

Portland restaurants support striking teachers
In solidarity with the teachers currently on strike, many local food businesses are offering discounts and freebies to teachers: Culmination Brewing Like List is offering a pint for a penny for the first 100 teachers to claim the deal each day, Milk Glass Mrkt Like List is offering free soft serve, Kachka Like List is offering 25% off frozen dumplings and 50% off of their entire lunch menu, Redwood Like List is offering 10% off, and Victoria Bar Like List is offering 10% off the first round (non-teachers can also contribute a drink to a teacher if they'd like). Lombard House Like List is also refusing service to Portland Public Schools superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero and his team and calling for other local businesses to join the boycott.

POP-UPS AND EVENTS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Portland Cheese and Meat Festival Past Event Like List
The world is your cheese plate at this celebration of all things cured meat and fromage. At the door, you’ll be greeted with a tasting glass and charcuterie board, and then left to your own devices to wander around curating the snack platter of your dreams with samples from vendors like Beecher's, Missionary Chocolates, Rogue Creamery, Ferndale Farmstead, Willamette Valley Cheese, and more.
The Leftbank Annex, 12-6 pm

Gobble Up Portland Past Event Like List
Just in time for Thanksgiving (and the subsequent holidays), Urban Craft Uprising will host this specialty food show for the seventh year in a row, promising over 100 local vendors hawking everything from cookies to wine and spirits to hot sauce (and yes, there are free samples). If you work up an appetite while shopping, five food trucks, including Cousins Maine Lobster, Eleni's Kitchen, Six Figure Buns, Pidgin Hole, and Let's Roll PDX, will be on site to fuel your browsing journey.
Alder Block, 10 am-5 pm

NOVEMBER 10-30

Veganizer: World Vegan Month 2023 Past Event Like List
In celebration of World Vegan Month, Veganizer PDX is collaborating with over 20 plant-based restaurants and food carts across the city to offer exclusive food and drink specials. A portion of sales from each business's special will be donated to their selected nonprofit. Some of our favorite spots in town are getting in on the philanthropic fun: Speed-o Cappuccino is raising funds for the PDX Sex Worker Resource Project, Ice Queen is contributing to Native American Youth and Family Center, Mis Tacones will donate to Meals On Us...the list goes on. It's a great chance to contribute to some magnanimous causes while partaking in some magnificent meatless meals.
Various locations

SPECIALS

Cheese & Crack Like List
The dairy-centric snack shop is now offering its fan favorite sweet potato sundae, featuring vanilla soft serve layered with sweet potato mousse and pumpkin seed crunch and topped with a dollop of torched marshmallow fluff.
Kerns
Pickup, dine-in

Fermenter Like List
Everyone's favorite "friendly neighborhood friendly bacteria emporium" is capturing the flavors of the season with its new fall salad, which includes roasted romanesco and delicata squash, house-made quince vinegar, kale sauce, hazelnut crumbles, and fermented peach and Basque espelette sauce.
Buckman
Pickup, delivery, dine-in

Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai
The cozy doughnut specialist's seasonal menu features sweet potato pie doughnuts with candied ginger, spiced or caramel apple cider (or both), and small-batch eggnog chai.
Cully, Beaverton
Pickup, dine-in