Spring is in full bloom, and chefs around town are whipping up special dishes to showcase the delicate flavors of the season in all of their glory. We've gathered this list of the places where you can find asparagus, radishes, rhubarb, nettles, green garlic, greens, and more, from rhubarb galettes at Ken's Artisan Bakery
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to asparagus and green garlic ravioli at Ripe Cooperative
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. For more ideas, check out our food and drink guide.
Arden
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The seasonal Pearl District wine bar has assembled some of the best tastes of spring for its burrata salad, which is currently topped with asparagus, radishes, thin crostini, fresh mint, Moscatel brown butter, and some delicate edible flowers.
Northwest
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Bakeshop
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Kim Boyce's whole-grain bakery is slinging lovely raspberry rhubarb lattice pies. If you don't want to commit to a whole pie, pint-sized rhubarb hand pies and strawberry barley scones are also available.
Northeast
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Desi PDX
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This seasonal Indian cart on North Mississippi has been busy cooking up some fresh new spring specials, including a house yogurt raita with radish and mustard seeds, aloo chat topped with spicy microgreens and foraged wild onion flowers, and a vegan spring side salad with farm greens, pickled asparagus, amchoor roasted turnips and radishes, pepitas, and pistachios with a rhubarb, fennel, and mint dressing.
North
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Doe Donuts
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The vegan donut shop's April and May menu includes a fruity, floral apricot rose flavor, with fresh apricot glaze and real rose petals.
Northeast
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Fills Donuts
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The Berliner-style donut shop is celebrating rhubarb season with their newest special, a bright pink strawberry-glazed donut with roasted rhubarb jam.
Downtown
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Grain & Gristle
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This farm-to-table neighborhood spot has a solid selection of new seasonal dishes, including green garlic mussel frites, spring halibut steaks with sorrel cream, an omelette with sautéed nettles and garlic herb chèvre, and a spring crudité platter with farmers market vegetables and green garlic bagna cauda.
Northeast
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Ken's Artisan Bakery
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Ken Forkish's bakery is churning out adorably petite rhubarb galettes while the fuchsia stalks are still in season—catch them before they're gone.
Northwest
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Lovely's Fifty-Fifty
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Sarah Minnick's locally sourced, wood-fired pizzeria is currently offering a menu of characteristically beautiful pies topped with the bounty of the season, including rainbow chard, morel mushrooms and ramps, spinach and fava greens, stinging nettles with guanciale and Taleggio cheese, and house-made fennel sausage with lacinato kale.
North
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Pacific Crust Pizza
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The Pacific Northwest-themed pizzeria says their Pizza Week 2021
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special, the "Cloud Chaser
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," "tastes like Oregon in the springtime." The pie features a buttery thin crust with garlic oil, asparagus, peas, ricotta, wild boar bacon, spring onions, and spicy gremolata (mint, parsley, olive oil, chili garlic, and cured egg yolk). Check out our full guide to Pizza Week here
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Northeast
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Ripe Cooperative
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Pioneering Portland chef Naomi Pomeroy's sustainability-focused community market is currently featuring blistered sugar snap peas, asparagus velouté with watercress puree, and ravioli made with green garlic, asparagus, and ricotta.
Northeast
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Ruthie's
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This cart serving seasonal, wood-fired food that the owners dub "Mormon cooking" (inspired by co-owner Collin Mohr's grandmother Ruthie) has concocted a pork chop dish that they declare to have "hella spring vibes." The meat comes with green garlic cream sauce, cipollini onions, mizuna, mustard greens, and crispy green garlic.
Southeast
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Society Pie
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Society Pie's Pizza Week special, "A Slice of Society
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," features house-made dough, pesto base sauce, 100% mozzarella, mushrooms, feta, and a fresh mix of microgreens made just for Pizza Week from their friends at Le Petit Jardin Urban Garden Market.
Beaverton
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Space Room Lounge and Genie's Too
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The galactic cocktail bar's soup of the week is cream of asparagus.
Southeast
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St. Beatrix
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The charming bakery is baking up "puff cuties" filled with cream cheese, nettles, and chives.
Northeast
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