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When Simpatica owners Ben Dyer, Jason Owens, and Dave Kreifels dissolved their restaurant in 2017, they couldn’t quite quit their decade-plus of morning meals. So, they remixed their brunch into a full-service restaurant featuring Simpatica standards (the tender pâte à choux waffles are here), as well as lighter, heathier fare (plus cocktails, of course). It might be the only place in town you Read more...
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This Alberta Street spot doubles as a fancy brunch destination serving Aussie-inflected fare and a cupping bar brewing flights of coffees so rare some aren’t available anywhere else in the US. The sprawling, sun-drenched space vibes like Kinfolk got coffee-drunk at a dive bar. At Proud Mary, “hash” means an addictive stack of crisp potato cakes, the thickest bacon, and Read more...
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This gluten-free-friendly Montavilla neighborhood coffee shop specializes in bialy sandwiches, fresh cupcakes, and French macarons. Read more...
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After years of sitting empty, the longtime home of Italian restaurant Nicola’s opened last summer as Vagabond, a cocktail bar where brunching silver foxes nestle in booths and a rec-room space upstairs beckons with pinball games. Out back, a patio lined with bamboo and bluebells offers a spot to commune quietly with a pint of Fun House nanobrewery’s Märzen, or Read more...
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Portland’s take on Chinese street-food fixation jian bing folds giant savory crêpes and super-crunchy crackers into a many-splendored breakfast thing. The cart’s crêpes skew pretty traditional: a cracked egg cooked and raked right into a crêpe, which is browned, flipped, and brushed with black bean paste, hoisin sauce, and chile paste. Then comes fresh cilantro, scallions, pickled bamboo and mushrooms, two Read more...
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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 Read more...
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Beaverton’s all day, southern-style breakfast restaurant doesn’t shy away from butter-slathered and fried classics like chicken and waffles, fried green tomato Benedict, and catfish, shrimp and grits. If post-meal naps feel inevitable, Sweet Jam’s full bar and live music on weekends should help keep you going. Read more...
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Beeswing’s blond wood tables and booths are crowded with neighborhood families meeting up for brunch, each with a couple of toddlers and a few mimosas and micheladas in hand. Packed to the gills with house-baked, smoked, and roasted comfort, this place is as cozy as your own kitchen table—if you don’t mind happy kid shrieks soundtracking your refills of Stumptown. Read more...
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The Ladd’s Addition coffee roaster makes a fine cup o’ mud, but the jam here is its trendy toast program. Get the Turkish egg toast: a thick slice of country wheat covered in whipped, garlic-dill yogurt, orange-stained cumin butter, and two poached eggs. Also good: the spicy, tomato-ey, briny romesco toast topped with melted fontina and more eggs. It’s like Read more...
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The west-side sister restaurant to Tasty n Sons rules brunch, but carves out its own identity with a strong lunch program (the famous radicchio salad included) that gives the working set another solid downtown option. The family-style dinner options are endless—bone marrow boards to apple-brined pork chops—but always get a deliciously marbled steak, hit with a two-week aging vacation before getting a hot and heavy Read more...
