We all know the real reason for the season is holiday feasts, so here's our comprehensive guide to where to find nourishment from Noël to New Year's. You'll find everything you need to make your plans, plus places to pick up food if you're staying in this year. Be sure to hurry and make your reservations before these restaurants fill up. For more festivities, check out our guide to 2021 holiday events Like List and our guide to holiday markets and shopping events Like List .

CHRISTMAS

Bergerac Bistro Like List
This cozy French bistro will offer a festive prix-fixe meal for two to six guests, with root vegetable soup with truffle oil, duck confit, creamy mushroom sauce, green beans with toasted almonds, potato gratin, and cranberry sauce, as well as a choice of chocolate orange pot de creme or gingerbread crème brûlée, and optional wine pairings. Pickup is available from 2-4 pm on Thursday, December 23.
Woodstock
Pickup, delivery

Bullard Tavern Like List
The Tex-Mex-inspired restaurant is going all out with its takeout Christmas boxes, which include house-smoked Painted Hills ribs, roasted pepper salsa verde, romaine salad with poblano dressing, Three Sisters Nixtamal hominy grits, roasted delicata squash, and banana pudding with house-made Nilla wafers and whipped cream. The restaurant's dessert shop sibling Holler Treats Like List also has plenty of sweets for your holiday table, including pies, cookies, and yule logs.
Downtown
Pickup, delivery

Campana Like List
The East Coast-style Italian restaurant is celebrating the Italian-American tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes (a dinner with seven types of fish or seafood eaten on Christmas Eve) with a five-course menu that includes options like fried risotto balls, baked oysters, crab-filled ravioli, seafood in broth, olive oil cake, and gelato.
Woodlawn
Pickup, dine-in

Creole Me Up Like List
Elsy Dinvil, the chef of the Haitian food business and catering company Creole Me Up, is bringing back her Christmas Eve pop-up menu (her last meal of the year before she goes back to school in 2022) at Portland Mercado Like List on December 24 by popular demand. The menu feeds four and includes soup joumou, fried plantains, pikliz, dark mushroom coconut rice, stuffed Haitian chicken, griot (deep-fried pork belly), mac and cheese with ground beef, vegan Haitian-Russian potato beet salad, Haitian cupcakes, and plantain ice cream with pineapple marmalade. Vegan options, such as vegan meatloaf, vegan mac and cheese with eggplant, and sweet potato cake, are also available, and cakes with pineapple-mango filling and a Haitian kremas cocktail mix can be added to your order.
Mt. Scott-Arleta
Pickup, dine-in

Elephants Delicatessen
The beloved delicatessen's Christmas menu features two dinners for six with a choice of smoked ham or holiday turkey and all the classic accompaniments, as well as a wide selection of hors d'ouevres, side dishes, soup, salads, brunch dishes, and wine. There's also a baked goods menu with treats like cupcakes, sweet potato pumpkin pie, cranberry cardamom bread, a holiday cookie platter, and the deli's famed bûche de Noël. Orders must be placed by Sunday, December 12, for curbside pickup or delivery from December 23-24.
Various locations
Pickup, delivery
Á la carte options available

NORR Kitchen Like List
This recently opened takeout and catering "kitchen concept" from the Portland-based production house NORR Agency has unveiled a to-go holiday menu, with a choice of local prime rib with red wine au jus or half a boneless local ham. Both meals come with a beet and goat cheese salad, roasted Brussels sprouts and shallots, white cheddar cauliflower au gratin, roasted garlic potato puree, French beans with bacon and herbs, a rustic French baguette, and burnt Basque cheesecake. For extra flair, add on a charcuterie and cheese board, truffle mac and cheese, five-onion dip, au jus, horseradish, and/or a Christmas cookie box.
Buckman
Pickup, delivery

Papa Haydn
The local institution has a ready-to-reheat feast for two that includes brined and smoked Carlton Farms pork loin, a potato gratin with gruyere and caramelized onion, Brussels sprouts, roasted cauliflower bisque, and a mixed greens salad. They also offer a plethora of baked goods, including cookie boxes, miniature tarts, cappuccino brownies, mousse and panna cotta "shooters," lime snowball cookies, bûches de Noël, meringue kisses, maple gingerbread cake, and more, as well as glühwein and mulled apple cider. Christmas orders must be placed by Thursday, December 16 for pickup from Papa Haydn's Sellwood or Nob Hill locations on December 23-24.
Nob Hill, Sellwood
Pickup

Screen Door
The wildly popular Southern-inspired spot is offering a sumptuous meal that promises to feed four comfortably with leftovers, complete with blue crab, smoked scallop, and shrimp Imperial with Ritz crackers; braised boneless beef short ribs; savory chanterelle mushroom bread pudding; mashed red bliss potatoes and roasted celery root; glazed heirloom carrots; roasted red beets; Dos Hermanos Bakery Like List Parker House rolls; and freshly baked old-fashioned gingerbread. You can also add on a pie (apple cranberry crumble, pumpkin, lemon chess, Creole pecan, chocolate peppermint, or banoffee). Orders are available from the restaurant's catering kitchen.
Eliot
Pickup

Yonder Like List
The Pacific Northwest-meets-Southern restaurant's take-home "Ham for the Holidays" package feeds six with leftovers and features a bone-in, spiral cut Hill Farms ham with a spiced pineapple and whiskey glaze, a dozen yeasted sweet potato rolls, whipped housemade butter with citrus and herbs, creamed winter greens gratin, and Yukon Gold potato puree. If you'd like to set out some appetizers, add on some luxe snacks, like a ready-to-bake, pastry-wrapped Tulip Tree Creamery Trillium triple-cream cheese, or a sorghum-brined, hickory-smoked skin-on filet of McFarland Springs trout with herbed cream cheese and house-made "ritzy" crackers. For dessert, there's Atlantic beach pie, Meyer lemon buttermilk chess "tassies" (old-fashioned pie-like cookies), and spiced molasses and apple butter sandwich cookies, and to drink, there's boozy eggnog and mulled apple cider. Pickup is available from 2-6 pm on December 24.
Cully
Pickup

NEW YEAR'S

Bergerac Bistro Like List
Ring in 2022 with Bergerac's four-course French feast, available for indoor or outdoor seating, with amuse-bouches and a choice of seared beef filet, seared black cod, and roasted lion's mane mushrooms. Save room for chocolate caramel tart, raspberry rosemary crème brûlée, or handmade chocolates for dessert.
Woodstock
Dine-in

Creole Me Up Like List
Why not close out the year by adding a new dish to your cooking repertoire? From December 30-31, Elsy Dinvil of Creole Me Up will teach a cooking class Past Event Like List on how to make freedom soup (a traditional dish also known as soup joumou or pumpkin soup, made to celebrate the emancipation of Haiti). You'll also learn how to make Haitian patties and toast to the new year with a cup of the coconut-rum drink kremas.
Online

Langbaan Like List
Langbaan will serve the very last New Year's meal in its original location before it moves next year. The meal will consist of Langbaan's current winter tasting menu spruced up with a smattering of "extra fancy adjustments and multiple additions that redefine indulgence," with wine pairings curated by Dana Frank of Bar Norman Like List and zero-proof pairings by Eric Nelson. 
Kerns
Dine-in

BAKED GOODS AND SWEETS

Blue Star Donuts
The local chain is slinging gingerbread buttermilk old-fashioned donuts with a yuzu-New Deal Like List ginger liqueur glaze, a perfect pairing for a glass of eggnog.
Various locations
Pickup, delivery

Cheese and Crack Like List
The snack shop suggests Dolly Parton Christmas music as a soundtrack for their new candy cane sundae special, made with vanilla soft serve, peppermint brownies, dark chocolate sauce, and candy cane crunch and topped with a "gingerbread friend."
Kerns
Pickup, dine-in

Doe Donuts
The donut shop's December lineup features some seasonal flavors that would be right at home on your holiday table, including white chocolate pretzel fritter, gingerbread old-fashioned, peppermint cookies and cream, pink grapefruit, holiday nog twist, apricot sufganiyot, and pumpkin cookie butter CBD. 
Hollywood
Pickup, delivery

Petunia's Pies and Pastries Like List
If you or your guests are gluten-intolerant, vegan, or have other dietary restrictions, Petunia's Pies and Pastries has you covered with an array of baked goods, including cinnamon swirl coffee cake, iced sugar cookies, a cookie decorating kit, "babycakes," bars, brownies, and take-and-bake sticky buns and cinnamon rolls.
Downtown
Pickup, delivery

Pix Pâtisserie Like List
Don your Sunday best for Pix Pâtisserie's proper holiday tea service, which will be available for dine-in from December 11-12 and 18-23 and for takeout from December 11-23. The service includes petite sweet and savory treats paired with Jasmine Pearl tea. Other holiday offerings include büches de Noël (traditional, chocolate port fig, and Sicilian) and other cakes and chocolates.
Kerns
Pickup, dine-in

Salt & Straw
The artisan ice creamery has launched its annual holiday flavor series. This year's lineup includes almond brittle with salted ganache, peppermint cocoa, gingerbread cookie dough, the "Great Cookie Swap" (a vegan macaroon ice cream base stuffed with snickerdoodles, thumbprint cookies, chocolate almond bark, and molasses cookies), and "Dwanta's Teremana Spiked Eggnog," a popular yearly flavor made in collaboration with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's "festive alter ego" Dwanta Claus, featuring Johnson's eggnog, Teremana Reposado tequila, amontillado sherry, and nutmeg.
Nob Hill, Vernon, Richmond, Lake Oswego
Pickup, delivery, dine-in