From crisp, hot fries to spicy tots and creamy mashers, this town boasts a wealth of awesome potato dishes. We chose a handful of local favorites in order to create a March Madness–style bracket to crown Portland’s best tater creation. Download our Spud Bracket Sweet 16 Tourney and start chowing through the list to choose your own winner.

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Chicken & Guns “Guns”

Crusty-wonderful baked, then fried, then lemon- and oil-rubbed russet quarters drizzled in garlicky, neon-green aji sauce.

Old Salt Salt Potatoes with Mama Lil’s Aioli

Crispy, buttery, velvety Yukon golds the kitchen roasts, smashes, and deep-fries to produce an addictive potato chip spliced with dinner spud.

Sunshine Tavern Gravy Fries

An easy-to-devour pile of hand-cut thickies slicked in herby, black pepper–bombed gravy pocked with nubbins of pork sausage and swathed in elastic bands of provolone. 

P’s & Q’s Market Side o’ Fries with Thrive Sauce

Salty, lava-hot, and skinny as a French model. Eat yer heart out, Mickey D’s!

Screen Door Mashed Potatoes and Tasso Gravy

A deeply tuber-y whip of butter-bombed russets drizzled with thin, salty, super-oinked hog sauce.

El Gaucho “The Full Gaucho” Baked Potato

A crisp-skinned baker crammed with sharp cheddar sauce and butter, showered with scallions and cracked pepper, and fluffed tableside, no less.

Boxer Ramen Okonomiyaki Tots

It’s sizzling potato surf and turf: proper-fried bar tots zigzagged with spicy Kewpie mayo, sweet-savory tonkatsu sauce, and a feathery mountain of sea-salty bonito curls.

Olympia Provisions Laser Potatoes

A brunch stack of whisper-thin Yukon gold rounds perfumed with onions and butter: silky inside, crunchy all over. 

Swiss Hibiscus Rosti

The world’s best Swiss-style hash browns, golden-crisp and brimming with bacon and onions.

Potato Champion Poutine

Craggy fries pooled in thick, hearty beef sauce and big, fluffy Wisconsin cheddar curd clouds will always be a winner in our book. potatochampion.com

Laurelwood Brewpub Famous Garlic Fries

Lumpy, beer-battered sticks swimming in garlic infused oil; sticky with Asiago cheese and parsley. laurelwoodbrewpub.com

Reel M Inn Jo-Jos

Dive-bar gluttony at its finest—crusty, spiced, gut-bomb russets with a side of ranch. 2430 SE Division St

Ataula Nuestras Bravas

Instead of the usual skillet-fried patatas bravas cubes, Ataula conjures Ruffles from a tapas bar in paradise: deep-fried packets of chorizo zeal beneath tomato sauce, parsley oil drips, Catalonian mayo, and piment d’espelette.

Tasty n Sons/Tasty n Alder Chocolate Potato Doughnut

A just-fried dough round, feather-light and suffused with earthy chocolate flavor, resting in a pool of sweet crème Anglaise. They’re made with milk-and-sugar boiled, mashed russet potatoes. So it counts.

People’s Pig Jo-Jos

Cliff Allen’s refined, golden, spud logs pretty much humiliate every fry in town. 

Maharaja Samosas

Barely sweet, golden fried Indian ziggurats—filled with a delicately spiced potato and pea mash—that taste like a cross between a state fair fritter and Madhur Jaffrey cookbook.