Restaurant Review

At Javelina and Inisha, Indigenous Cuisine Finds Portland Quirk

With fry bread burgers and a precolonial tasting menu, the conjoined restaurants stand in a major gap of the city’s restaurant scene.

09/02/2025 By Jordan Michelman Photography by Thomas Teal

Restaurant Review

Jerry’s Tavern Is Wise Beyond Its Years

Instead of its famed pizza, the beloved pop-up’s bar serves wings and curds with an intoxicating Midwest charm.

01/29/2025 By Jordan Michelman Photography by Michael Novak

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

Dining Picks

Our Restaurant Critics' Dream Meals

When asked, hypothetically, if they could order a meal of dishes cherry-picked from any menu across the city, this is how our critics filled their tables.

08/16/2024 By Portland Monthly Staff Illustrations by Rebecca Nguyen

Restaurant Review

It’s Exclusive, But Is the Soho House Restaurant Cool?

Members-only restaurants are having a national renaissance. Soho House is the closest thing Portland has.

07/11/2024 By Matthew Trueherz Photography by Thomas Teal

Restaurant Review

Bar Comala and De Noche Expand Portland’s Mole and Mezcal Universe

This conjoined bar and restaurant pair endless Mexican spirits with chef Dani Morales’s modern menu.

06/26/2024 By Jordan Michelman Photography by Caroline Harper

Restaurant Review

The Bellwether Bar’s Charms Are an Open Secret

Subverting the classic bar-and-grill formula in a century-old dining room.

06/12/2024 By Jordan Michelman

Restaurant Review

Xiao Ye’s Cuisine of Delicious Defiance

A menu of canonical Roman pastas, mochi-flour madeleines, and Japanese curry eludes simple labels.

04/09/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Restaurant Review

One of Portland’s Best Bowls of Birria Lives at Birrias Tamazula in Gresham

This small, family-run gem specializes in Mexican comfort food. Don’t miss the birria de chivo with hot Lao-style chile oil.

11/17/2023 By Katherine Chew Hamilton Photography by Michael Novak

Restaurant Review

A Strip Mall Chinese Food Spot Is My Favorite Restaurant in Portland Right Now. Here’s Why.

I used to fly to Los Angeles for a Sichuan food fix. Now I drive to Happy Valley.

10/18/2023 By Katherine Chew Hamilton Photography by Foundry 503

Review

Okta Is Now Oregon Wine Country’s Greatest Restaurant, Ever

One year after opening, Michelin-starred chef Matthew Lightner and wine curator Ron Acierto deliver a new definition of food, wine, and Oregon on McMinnville’s main drag.

07/27/2023 By Karen Brooks