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This is the Balthazar of Portland: the place that everyone agrees on, and a restaurant that manages to be creative, yet so classic. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
You’ll find pickled onions on your burger and foie gras in your profiterole, but also some killer fried green tomatoes on your pork belly and a really good chicken-under-a-brick. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Though meat hitting the grill is the main focus, both veggies and seafood represent well in homey dishes like hominy stew and braised octopus. [Eater Member 38]
Toro Bravo is about as Spanish as the French revolution, but this is damn good food. Get there right when it opens — at five — and be ready to fight for your spot. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Intensely regional Italian food, wood-fired oven pizza, and a totally accessible menu make Cathy Whims (once of Genoa) the most renowned female chef in Portland. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
This spot elevates what can be accomplished between two slices of bread, resulting in dripping, satisfying pork meatball banh mis and one of Portland's up-and-coming top burgers. [Eater 38 Member]
Local-sourced and southern-fried, everything on this menu from the pimento cheese scramble to the brined bird keeps the locals lining up for seconds, thirds and fourths. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Everything is cooked in a wood-fired oven, get the meat pies (with an exclamation point on the menu), roasted seasonal vegetables, and S’Mores for dessert. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
G&G serves honest pub grub that works in perfect harmony with the carefully curated beer list. Note the daily Twofer, where a shared entree, side & two pints sets you back just $20. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Podnah’s hits the lowest common denominator of what makes food satisfying: salt, sweetness, fat, and Rodney Muirhead’s sauce has the perfect acidity. The brisket is perfectly smoked. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
NE's arguably under-the-radar neighborhood spot Firehouse brings warmth literally and figuratively, with its wood-fired oven, comforting room, and plates of Italian comfort. [Eater 38 Member]
It's a splurge, but each prix-fixe seating is like a dinner party gone carnivorously crazy. Get the charcuterie plates, and braised duck or beef cheeks if they're available. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Woodsman Tavern takes from big-city influences, Balthezar's seafood tower, Hog & Rocks' ham plates, chef Jason Barwikowski brings it all down to earth with his Mediterranean flow. [Eater 38 Member]
