Best Restaurants 2021

Pizza Hits Peak Pie Time in Portland

Dimo’s, Pizza Thief, and Cafe Olli bolster the case that Portland is America’s best pizza city.

11/19/2021 By Karen Brooks

News

This New-to-Portland Food App Aims to Help Solve Climate Change—with Discount Doughnuts

Too Good to Go, newly launched in Portland, connects customers with local restaurants and stores to pass on their end-of-day surplus.

06/05/2021 By Nick Campigli

Food News

Best Thing We Ate This Week: Tomato Pie from Gracie’s Apizza

A reminder that pizza doesn’t need a blanket of cheese to be great (though we love cheese blankets, too).

01/15/2021 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Best Burger

Portland Monthly's Burger Bracket 2020

Who makes the best burger in Portland? Vote for your favorite for a chance to win gift cards and other prizes.

03/11/2020 By Portland Monthly Staff

Beyond Bagels

Searching Portland for Bialys, the Onion-Flecked Polish Cousin of the Bagel

You’ll find them at Ben and Esther’s in Roseway, but only early on Saturday mornings.

02/25/2020 By Julia Silverman

The Shakedown

What's the Deal with Chocolate, Anyway?

Sizing up the sweet treats we crave.

01/21/2020 By Marty Patail

Profile

La’s Celebrates Hmong Food Culture One Sausage at a Time

The Northwest’s only Hmong soul food cart hides behind a Little Caesars in Aloha.

05/28/2019 By Natasha Tandler

Insider’s Guide 2019: Food

Where Portland's Next Generation Goes to Eat and Play

Move over, millennials. A Generation Z teen gives us her foodie favorites.

03/26/2019 By Ramona DeNies

Food

With Top Burmese, the Cuisine of Myanmar Officially Lands in Portland

The take-out "virtual restaurant" has been delivering orders of fermented tea leaf salad and Burmese samosas since early February.

03/05/2019 By Marty Patail

Best Restaurants 2018: Burger Time

Portland's Best New Restaurants 2018: Super Deluxe Is Our Answer to In-N-Out

Micah Camden's drive-through brings together all walks for burgers, fries, and fizzy waters.

10/10/2018 By Benjamin Tepler

Eat Here Now

Super Deluxe Brings In-N-Out-Style Fast Food to Portland

Micah Camden is this city's burger king.

09/11/2018 By Benjamin Tepler

Eat This Now

I Am Going to Live at Lao Beer Bar Cully Central This Summer

Bring the kids. Brings the dogs. We’re having Lao crispy rice salad and tater tots for dinner.

06/27/2018 By Kelly Clarke

Eat Here Now

At Nam Lộc, It's Crab Soup and Teeny Shrimp Pancakes with a Side of Law & Order

Don't skip this SE 82nd Avenue strip-mall spot.

05/22/2018 By Kelly Clarke

Summer Eats

Slurp Spicy Dole Whip Floats and Funky Milk Teas at Zero Degrees

This is the quirky California-born Mexican-Asian dessert cafe chain even a Portlander can love.

05/21/2018 By Kelly Clarke

Eat This Now

Meet the Woman Launching a Hmong Food Movement in the Pacific Northwest

From her Aloha cart, La Vang-Herr aims to make Hmong sausages (and culture) as recognizable as Vietnamese banh mi.

05/10/2018 By Natasha Tandler

Eat Here Now

Homey Surprises Abound at Northern-Meets-Southern Chinese Spot Master Kong

Squishy goubuli baozi and perfect wonton soup are in the house.

05/09/2018 By Samantha Bakall

Eat This Now

Bánh Mì Nam Lộc Is a Trove of Teeny Vietnamese Seafood Pancakes

The SE 82nd Avenue strip mall spot serves banh khot with a side of Law & Order.

04/02/2018 By Kelly Clarke

Global Comfort Food

Portland Dishes That Taste Like Home

We asked some of our favorite local chefs and foodies one deceptively simple question: What tastes like home? Here are their globe-spanning responses.

02/27/2018 Edited by Kelly Clarke

Global Comfort Food

We Asked 20 Portland Chefs and Foodies: What Tastes Like Home?

From hearty Haitian soups to pupusas, here's what makes these locals feel safe and loved—and where to score these touchstone eats.

02/27/2018 Edited by Kelly Clarke By Karen Brooks, Ramona DeNies, Zach Dundas, Rebecca Jacobson, Pechluck Laskey, Fiona McCann, Benjamin Tepler, and Tuck Woodstock

Openings

DC Vegetarian’s Brick-and-Mortar Sandwich Shop Now Open on Division

Meanwhile, the flagship downtown food cart plans to close … someday.

02/19/2018 By Tuck Woodstock

Cheap Eats

Pizza Hits Peak Pie Time in Portland

This New-to-Portland Food App Aims to Help Solve Climate Change—with Discount Doughnuts

Best Thing We Ate This Week: Tomato Pie from Gracie’s Apizza

Portland Monthly's Burger Bracket 2020

Searching Portland for Bialys, the Onion-Flecked Polish Cousin of the Bagel

What's the Deal with Chocolate, Anyway?

La’s Celebrates Hmong Food Culture One Sausage at a Time

Where Portland's Next Generation Goes to Eat and Play

With Top Burmese, the Cuisine of Myanmar Officially Lands in Portland

Portland's Best New Restaurants 2018: Super Deluxe Is Our Answer to In-N-Out

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Meet the Woman Launching a Hmong Food Movement in the Pacific Northwest

Homey Surprises Abound at Northern-Meets-Southern Chinese Spot Master Kong

Bánh Mì Nam Lộc Is a Trove of Teeny Vietnamese Seafood Pancakes

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