Food News

Vinyl Meets Pho at a New Bar from the Memoire Team

At After Ours, morning banh mi avocado toast will precede tamarind–fish sauce margaritas.

08/05/2025 By Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Dining News

Portland’s Most Hotly Anticipated Restaurants for Spring 2025

Neo-Neapolitan pizza, Vietnamese pastries, and French bistro dining come to Portland.

04/25/2025 By Alex Frane

bar openings

Side Eye Blends French Dining, Fast Food, and Retro Cocktails

Despite a veteran dining team driving it, Northwest District’s newest bar is comfortably lowbrow.

02/21/2025 By Alex Frane

Openings

Is Fancy Baby Portland’s Next Great Wine Bar?

Rarefied champagne magnums fill the overseas-inspired bar in the Pearl. But there are plenty of casual bottles around, too.

10/25/2024 By Jordan Michelman Photography by Michael Novak

Openings

The Team Behind Big Salt Just Opened Two New Wine Bars

Bar Nina and Big Salt Bar land somewhere between Ovum Wines tasting rooms and wine bars, serving rare Iberian glass pours and tiny Spanish sausages.

08/28/2024 By Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Openings

Dirty Rice Arancini Take Their Cues from Sicilian Reds at Parallel Food & Drink

Former Momofuku sommelier Stacey Gibson runs the NE Sandy bar with her husband, Olympia Provisions alum chef Joey Gibson.

08/08/2024 By Brooke Jackson-Glidden

Openings

Paniolo in the Pearl: Fools and Horses Slings Hawaiian Cowboy Fare

The people behind Pink Rabbit open a slightly grown-up, but equally hip spot next door.

10/06/2022 By Matthew Trueherz

Bars

First Look: Basquiat and Pink Velour in Kann’s Basement

Sousòl, the subterranean sibling bar of Gregory Gourdet’s ode to Haiti, is a pan-Caribbean party.

09/29/2022 By Matthew Trueherz

Hotel Openings

Woodlark Hotel Now Open, Just in Time for Kolaches and Winter Cocktails

Woodlark is two hotels in one, plus a downtown outpost of Good Coffee, a history-heavy cocktail bar, and—finally!—Doug Adams's Texas-style meat palace, Bullard.

12/12/2018 By Ramona DeNies

Sneak Peek

At Soon-to-Open Pink Rabbit, the Cocktail Menu Is Literally Song Lyrics by the National

Star barista Billy Wilson and GQ-lauded mixologist Tyler Stevens bonded over rock music and album art. Their new Pearl District project? Just add booze.

12/11/2018 By Ramona DeNies

New Bars

Cocktail Pop-Up Deadshot Now Has Permanent Digs and a Posse of Bartenders

Before, Adam Robinson's Mondays-only bar night was Holdfast's sidepiece. Now, the industry hangout stirs up sweet trouble seven days a week in SE Portland's former Associated space.

05/24/2018 By Ramona DeNies

Restaurant Openings

Say ‘Aloha’ to N Mississippi’s New Vegan Tiki Bar

Seattle’s No Bones Beach Club brings taro fries and jackfruit nachos to Portland.

01/25/2017 By Tuck Woodstock

WHAT'S NEXT

The Bars of Summer 2016

It’s shaping up to be an epic year for fun-loving drinkers. We’ve got the goods on five spots opening soon.

04/22/2016 By Marty Patail, Kelly Clarke, and Benjamin Tepler

DRINK HERE NOW

Can Loyal Legion Really Be Called a Beer Hall?

Our man from Munich explores the new 99-tap drinking establishment in Southeast Portland.

09/21/2015 By Marty Patail

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

How to Eat Your Way Through Portland's Newest Food Court, the Zipper

We chowed down inside NE Sandy’s new micro-restaurant complex. The consensus? Go for the falafel, stay for the whiskey.

09/15/2015 By Benjamin Tepler

THE GRAPEVINE

5 Great New Portland Wine Bars

From chic downtown haunts to suburban surprises, the city is yours for the sipping.

08/24/2015 By Tamara Belgard

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Bit House Saloon is Shaking Up Portland's Best Summer Cocktails

A new Central Eastside watering hole crafts stellar, fancy-free cocktails.

08/21/2015 By Benjamin Tepler

OPENINGS

Inside Victoria Bar, Now Open on Albina

A new craft cocktail bar brings Cajun grub and Princess Bride cocktails to North Portland.

08/04/2015 By Tuck Woodstock

BEER BULLETIN

Inside Portland's New First National Taphouse

The second location of the Eugene-based Irish pub brings a bit of Oregon history (and hundreds of local and international beers and ciders) to the PSU district.

10/01/2014 By Anna Loh

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Jackknife Bar Opens at Sentinel Hotel

Jackknife, the much-anticipated hotel lobby bar at Sentinel, opened its historic doors earlier this week with classic and contemporary cocktails.

04/29/2014 By Brooke Bass

Portland Monthly

Bar Openings

Vinyl Meets Pho at a New Bar from the Memoire Team

Portland’s Most Hotly Anticipated Restaurants for Spring 2025

Side Eye Blends French Dining, Fast Food, and Retro Cocktails

Is Fancy Baby Portland’s Next Great Wine Bar?

The Team Behind Big Salt Just Opened Two New Wine Bars

Dirty Rice Arancini Take Their Cues from Sicilian Reds at Parallel Food & Drink

Paniolo in the Pearl: Fools and Horses Slings Hawaiian Cowboy Fare

First Look: Basquiat and Pink Velour in Kann’s Basement

Woodlark Hotel Now Open, Just in Time for Kolaches and Winter Cocktails

At Soon-to-Open Pink Rabbit, the Cocktail Menu Is Literally Song Lyrics by the National

Cocktail Pop-Up Deadshot Now Has Permanent Digs and a Posse of Bartenders

Say ‘Aloha’ to N Mississippi’s New Vegan Tiki Bar

The Bars of Summer 2016

Can Loyal Legion Really Be Called a Beer Hall?

How to Eat Your Way Through Portland's Newest Food Court, the Zipper

5 Great New Portland Wine Bars

Bit House Saloon is Shaking Up Portland's Best Summer Cocktails

Inside Victoria Bar, Now Open on Albina

Inside Portland's New First National Taphouse

Jackknife Bar Opens at Sentinel Hotel