Type
American, Breakfast / Brunch
Features
Breakfast, Brunch, Business Lunch, Conversation, Counter Service, Date Night, Dessert, Dinner, Happy Hour, Lunch
Price Scale
$$
Description

The term “power breakfast” springs to mind as soon as you lean back against the jade green banquettes at Besaw’s gussied-up new digs. The 113-year-old café reopened five blocks east in 2016, adding lavish custom wallpaper and a gleaming deco ceiling to its weathered bar stools and OG neon sign to create a rarefied breakfasting mood not often found at Portland’s homier cafés. Local mixology outfit Bull in China’s “day drinkin’” cocktail menu turns out to be the ringer, anchored by the bright, sunrise-hued Master Cleanse, which upends a fresh carrot and apple juice health tonic with a jigger of smoky tequila, lemon tang, and cinnamon-cayenne agave, all rimmed with salt and cayenne. The spicy-sweet guzzler is an essential addition to your morning routine. 

Besaw's

1545 NW 21st Ave, Portland, OR, 97209
503-228-2619
BRUNCH: Monday — Friday, 7am — 3pm; Saturday — Sunday, 8am — 3pm DINNER: Sunday — Tuesday, 5pm — 9pm; Wednesday — Saturday, 5pm — 10pm