Dining Picks

Portland’s Best Mexican Food

Where to find birria, taquitos, mariscos, and elaborate tasting menus in Portland’s ever-growing Mexican scene.

08/26/2025 By Katherine Chew Hamilton, Alex Frane, and Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Destination Drinking

The 10 Best Bars in Portland

These are our favorite bars in the city, for the magic deep at their core.

10/13/2023 By Katherine Chew Hamilton, Margaret Seiler, and Matthew Trueherz

Best Restaurants

The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now

The legends, new voices, and wild ideas that make Portland a major dining destination.

06/04/2024 Edited by Karen Brooks

Best Restaurants 2022

Kann Is Portland Monthly’s Restaurant of the Year: 2022

Celebrity chef Gregory Gourdet puts the food of his youth on a grand platter. Welcome to the new Portland—and to one of America’s most important restaurants of 2022.

11/18/2022 By Karen Brooks Photography by Thomas Teal

Review

Portland Soup Dumpling Showdown: Who Makes the City's Best?

Two chain restaurants, three mom-and-pop shops. Who’s the xiao long bao champ?

09/12/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Dining Picks

Portland’s Top Sushi Spots for Any Occasion

Look no further for the best casual, splurge, and takeout options around town, from straightforward nigiri to complex specialty rolls.

04/09/2025 By Katherine Chew Hamilton, Alex Frane, Brooke Jackson-Glidden, and Matthew Trueherz

Dining Picks

Portland's Best Pizza

By the slice or by the pie, Portland proves that you don’t need to adhere to the rules to make the best pizzas out there.

09/07/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Dining Picks

The Best Breakfasts in Portland

Where to find egg and cheese sandwiches, farmers market burritos, and pozole to start your day.

08/28/2025 By Katherine Chew Hamilton, Alex Frane, and Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Let’s Do Lunch

Chow Down on Portland’s Best Sandwiches

Tuna melts, meatball subs, grinders, and eggplant muffulettas—Portland is ready for lunchtime.

05/14/2025 By Alex Frane and Portland Monthly Staff

Bakeries

7 Portland Pie Shops, Ranked

Whether you’re celebrating Pi Day, a birthday, Thanksgiving, or simply being alive, we dish on the best places for tantalizing fillings and flaky, buttery crust.

03/11/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Sweet Treats

Portland’s Best Ice Cream

Whether you’re a fan of pistachio gelato, soft serve sundaes, mango kulfi, or vegan cookie dough, these are our go-to scoop (and pop) shops.

06/11/2025 By Alex Frane and Portland Monthly Staff

Drinking Alfresco

Portland’s Best Bar Patios

From the dives and watering holes with outdoor pool tables to the cocktail bars with DJs and Fanta-glazed pork belly tacos.

05/15/2025 By Alex Frane and Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Dining Picks

Portland’s Essential Outdoor Dining Spots

Behold: a wine-lovers' patio den carpeted in Astroturf, a hidden spot for sashimi and next-level cocktails, and a strip-mall A-frame with one table only.

04/24/2023 By Karen Brooks

Coffee & Tea

Portland’s 10 Best Bubble Tea Shops

Where to get the boba of your dreams, whether that means cheese foam, puff cream, rose-lychee, or a whole lemon.

10/04/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton, Isabel Lemus Kristensen, and Nick Campigli

Dining Picks

Beaverton’s Best Restaurants

From dim sum to dosas, these are our favorite spots in the west burbs.

02/01/2023 By Dalila Brent and Katherine Chew Hamilton

Flour Power

The 8 Best Pastries to Make Your Morning

From classic cinnamon rolls to raspberry rose cruffins, pair these numbers with coffee for an excellent start to the day.

06/15/2022 By Karen Brooks and Katherine Chew Hamilton

Sweet Tooth

An Opinionated Guide to Portland's Best Bakeries

The city’s defining croissants, breads, and essential baked goods, exhaustively researched.

03/13/2024 By Karen Brooks and Matthew Trueherz

Dining Picks

20 Food Carts that Define Portland Now

Find super-fresh sushi, quesabirria tacos, hand-pulled noodles, and more at the best carts in the city.

03/22/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Food Review

Portland’s 20 Best Cheeseburgers, Exhaustively Argued and Ranked

Yes, we’re dropping 5,032 words on the city’s classic burger revival. Meet the Burger Cabal.

12/04/2020 By Karen Brooks, Bill Oakley, Gary Okazaki, Pauline Lewis, and Drew Lewis

Dining Picks

Where to Find the Best Tacos in Portland and Beyond

Whether you’re on the hunt for birria, guisado, carnitas, or lengua, the city and its suburbs have tacos covered.

04/30/2025 By Katherine Chew Hamilton and Portland Monthly staff

Gluten-Free Food

The Top-Tier Gluten-Free Bakeries in Town

From cinnamon rolls to cupcakes to donuts, here are the bakeries with the best gluten-free pastries.

11/12/2021 By Cami Hughes

Bar Week 2023

These Portland Bars Serve Killer Food

Where to satisfy the drunchies with cheesy, crunchy fried goodness, from burgers to wonton nachos.

10/13/2023 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Bar Week 2023

11 Wine Bars for Every Kind of Vibe

People-watching patios, subterranean lairs, happy-hour favorites, natural wine havens, and gussied-up date night spots.

10/13/2023 By Matthew Trueherz

Queer Bars

Portland’s Best LGBTQ+ Bars, Clubs, and Parties

Historic gay bars, iconic drag revues, and roving lesbian dance parties, these are the top spots to celebrate Pride in Portland.

06/09/2025 By Andrew Jankowski and Portland Monthly Staff

Bar Week 2023

6 Very Different Karaoke Experiences around Portland

You can book a private room, share the stage with a stripper or a live band, bask in the glow of a tiki bar, and more.

10/11/2023 By Katherine Chew Hamilton and Margaret Seiler

NEIGHBORHOOD BARS

A Pocket Guide to Portland’s Definitive Neighborhood Bars—All 74 of ’Em

Our city has 95 neighborhoods, and 74 are blessed with at least one bar. Here are the city’s quintessential local watering holes.

04/22/2016 By Portland Monthly Staff With Sarah Cadwell

Eat This Now

4 Noodle Dishes to Eat Now

Where to find plates of warm, doughy comfort, from fish sauce spaghetti and meatballs to spicy beef noodle soup

02/25/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Dining Picks

Portland’s Essential Pan-African Restaurants

From Ethiopian and Somali food to West African cuisine, all the way to the diaspora communities of Belize, Jamaica, and the United States, here are some jumping off points for experiencing Africa’s widespread culinary influence.

02/11/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton and Dalila Brent

Dining Picks

Winged Victory: Portland’s Top Chicken Wings

Our chicken wing scene is deep, expressing a broad range of culinary traditions and styles. Here are the region’s very best.

01/31/2025 By Alex Frane and Jordan Michelman

Cafes & Chocolate

Portland's 7 Belly-Warmingest Hot Chocolates

From classic milk chocolate to peppermint to snickerdoodle, here are the best hot chocolates to get you through the winter.

12/17/2021 By Katherine Chew Hamilton, Dalila Brent, Fiona McCann, Gabriel Granillo, Cami Hughes, Julia Silverman, and Karen Brooks

Food and drink

5 Incredible Pumpkin Spice Lattes that Will Convert Even the Surliest Portlander

We tasted Portland’s pumpkin spice lattes so you don’t have to (unless you want to).

09/30/2021 By Maggie Panos