Hit List

The Best Farms and Orchards for Apple Picking near Portland

We’ve narrowed down the region’s autumnal offerings, with great mountain views, kid-friendly vibes, and rare varietals ripe for the picking.

09/04/2025 By Alex Frane and Portland Monthly Staff

Reviews

The New Portland Restaurants That Make Us Hopeful

Portland’s food soul rallies again, small and personal to the core.

11/20/2024 By Karen Brooks

Restaurant Review

Bauman’s on Oak Isn’t Your Average Taphouse

The world-renowned cider company’s restaurant makes marvels of the simple things.

09/27/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Cheers!

4 Great Oregon Ciders to Drink Right Now

Holiday cider? We can get behind that.

12/21/2023 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

The 2023 PoMo Weird Wine Challenge

Are You a Coferment Virgin? 6 Portland Varieties to Try

It's a cider lovefest, and our city is the home base of creative producers. We found the half dozen best coferments for taste bud adventures, with blends of apples, wine grapes, and other Oregon fruits.

08/17/2023 By Hannah Wallace Photography by Michael Novak

Travel

Getting Wrecked in Astoria: 28 Hours of Beer, Food, and History

Czech-style pilsners, blackberry English pub ciders, creamy frozen custard, barking sea lions, famous shipwrecks, historic military batteries, and more

02/10/2023 By Isabel Lemus Kristensen

Eat This Now

Canallas Brings Free-Rein, Fine Dining–Influenced Tacos to ‘The Place’

Two chefs, including one with a Michelin star résumé, use tacos as a canvas for ingredients including venison, pork terrine, salmon, bok choy, and squash.

01/28/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Pour

Classic Basque Cider Comes to the Columbia River Gorge

Cascade Locks cidery Son of Man makes a wild-fermented quaff that's funky and salty.

02/26/2019 By Ramona DeNies

Food Event Spotlight

Get Ready for the Northwest's First Basque-Style Cidery

Son of Man, based in Cascade Locks, taps its first wild cider in February. To that, we say txotx!

12/19/2018 By Ramona DeNies

PDX Index

Oregon's Cider Industry Is Booming

Here are the hard numbers on the state's next booze boom.

09/11/2018 By Sam Pape

Fresh Finds

5 Portland Specialty Food Markets to Know

Looking to go beyond the big chains? Hit up these spots.

08/03/2018 By Margaret Seiler and Zach Dundas

Weekly Planner

A Fiesta Honors Frida Kahlo, Oregon Cider Week and Saké Fest Return, and More PDX Food Events

… including Altabira’s four-course Independence Day feast, a talk by butchery guru Camas Davis, and Arden Wine Bar + Kitchen’s first (and 100 percent female-run) winemaker dinner.

06/25/2018 By Natasha Tandler

Roundup

A Taste Test of Oregon’s Top Hard Ciders

We sampled 36 locally made bottles to find the very best.

12/06/2016 By Arlo Voorhees

Recipes

Two Delicious Cocktails to Warm Up Your Winter

A toddy laced with apple butter? Mezcal-spiked drinking chocolate? We’ll take both.

11/14/2016 By Kelly Clarke

WEEKLY PLANNER

Han Oak Does Dinner, Belgian Beer Lovers Collide, and More Portland Food Events

… including the sixth annual Saké Fest, a cider dinner at Aviary, and Pinolo Gelato’s first birthday.

06/21/2016 By Michelle Porter

FREE DESERT

Want to Win 10 Free Acres of Sagebrush in Central Oregon?

Portland-based Square Mile Cider is raffling off high desert land in Brothers, 30 miles east of Bend.

06/14/2016 By Regina Winkle-Bryan

BARS

Worth a Visit: McMenamins' Cider Bar on NW 23rd

Not only has McMenamins been making cider for 25 years, the local institution is a Top 5 cider producer in Oregon.

06/15/2015 By Marty Patail

BREAKING NEWS

PDX Urban Winemakers to Launch Alter Ego Cider Company

Anne Hubatch of Helioterra Wines, Whoa Nelly Wines, and Guild Winemakers will team up with Nate and Kris Wall to produce small-batch ciders at Coopers Hall.

06/16/2014 By Allison Jones

DRINK EVENT SPOTLIGHT

Join the (Dog-Friendly) Cider Summit Portland

Get ready to join the thirsty crowds at Cider Summit PDX's fourth annual apple bash.

06/13/2014 By Sarah Richards

PERFECT PAIRS

Saint Honoré's Cider-Powered Happy Hour

The French bakery's third location offers Portland's widest selection of ciders on tap alongside sweet and savory Alsatian dishes, from tarte flambe to kougelhof.

01/23/2014 By Allison Jones