Top Restaurants in Portland Right Now — Resy | Right This Way
Updated: Oct. 1, 2025
There’s no question we hear more often: Where should I go eat? And while we at Resy know it’s an honor to be the friend who everyone asks for restaurant advice, we also know it’s a complicated task. That’s where the Resy Hit List comes in.
Consider it your essential resource for dining in Portland: a monthly-updated guide to the restaurants that you won’t want to miss — tonight or any night.
Four Things In Portland Not to Miss This Month
Kann Coffee Collab: One of the perpetually fastest-booked events on Resy is this Deadstock Coffee x Kann collab. Led by Deadstock’s Ian Williams, learn to pan-roast your own coffee and head home with two bags of beans and recipe cards to brew the perfect cup at home. Book now for Nov. 9 or Dec. 7, and check Resy’s Events Page for more special dining and drinking experiences.
Portland Night Market: The beloved Portland Night Market returns this month, a bustling, two-night party bringing together food, music, local makers, and more under one roof. Sample bites from Flying Fish and Tiffin Asha alongside locally made cocktails and roasted coffee from New Deal Distillery and All Day Coffee.
Zero-Proof Wine Tasting: Grab a seat at Sousòl’s monthly zero-proof wine tasting event. Sip through a hand-picked selection featured on the subterranean bar’s wine list while hearing favorites and pairing tips from the wine team. Additional food and beverages can be ordered from the bar alongside the tasting. Learn more and find tickets on Resy.
Oktoberfest Time: If you thought you missed Oktoberfest-ivities, it’s not too late. Though most celebrations happened in September, a handful across the city continue into this month too. Head to McMenamins to catch the last few days, Bauman’s on Oak on Oct. 11 for their “Oak-toberfest,” and Occidental Brewing that same day for Festbier and sausages.
New to the Hit List (Oct. 2025)
Coquine, Lil’ Barbecue, Scotch Lodge.
1. Heavenly Creatures
- Sullivan's Gulch
- French
- $$
2. Champs Burgers
- Brooklyn
3. Kann
- Southeast Portland
- Haitian
- $$$
4. L'Échelle
- Richmond
- French
- $$
5. Takibi
- Northwest
- Japanese
- $$
6. Scotch Lodge
- Buckman
- Cocktail Bar
- $$
7. Monty’s Red Sauce
- Sellwood Moreland
- Italian American
- $
8. Jade Rabbit
- Buckman
- Vegan
- $$
9. 23rd Champagne Poetry
- Nob Hill
- Modern Pan-Asian
- $$
10. The Paper Bridge
- Central Eastside
- Vietnamese
- $
11. LULU
- Central Eastside
- Fusion
- $$
12. Jacqueline
- Clinton
- Seafood
- $$
13. Estes Ristorante
- Mississippi
- Italian American
- $$
14. Bone Sine
- Mississippi
15. Coquine
- Mt. Tabor
16. No Saint
- Vernon
- Italian & Pizza
- $
17. Lil’ Barbecue
- Dekum
18. Berlu
- Buckman
19. 3 Doors Down Cafe & Lounge
- Se Portland
- Italian
- $$
19 venues
1.Heavenly Creatures Sullivan's Gulch map
Photo courtesy of Heavenly Creatures
The original St. Jack duo that brought Portland its beloved and longstanding French bistro got back together to recreate this bit of magic. The can’t-miss wine bar offers a short-but-sweet menu of French-inspired drinking foods that helps keep the wine flowing all night. Snacks like whipped Camembert with potato chips and the young yellowtail toast have risen to signature status, while heartier snacks and plates like poached halibut and manila clams with lobster-garlic bread and braised oxtail with cherry tomatoes and sauce verte mean you won’t need to stop elsewhere for “real” dinner. Wine, of course, is the main event, ranging from a lengthy glass pour list to a robust bottle selection, available to enjoy on site with a corkage fee or at home.
Photo courtesy of Heavenly Creatures
2.Champs Burgers Brooklyn map
Tucked behind European-inspired brewery and taproom Away Days Brewing Co., you’ll find Champs Burgers, the once-pop-up now turned full-time food cart. Like many of Portland’s great burger joints, the menu is simple: A cheeseburger (made with dry-aged beef, quality American cheese, onions, pickles, and burger sauce on a housemade Cairspring Mills flour-based bun), in a single, double, and thick version. Plus, a rotating special (previous favorites have included a lengua pastrami burger and pickled jalapeño-topped Oklahoma burger); beef tallow fries; and a cookie (from classics like chopped chocolate chip to pumpkin toffee spiced corn). The cart continues to draw long lines, and it’s worth joining the queue.
Find more info here.
3.Kann Southeast Portland map
Portland’s arguably most sought-after restaurant proudly focuses on chef Gregory Gourdet’s Haitian heritage. And it’s still worth trying to snag a reservation. The James Beard Award-winning menu is truly best suited for joyous reunion, with groups of four to six (or more in the private dining space!) getting a chance to try a little bit of everything if you’re sharing across the table. Don’t miss the signature dishes — the plaintain brioche and the griyo twice-cooked pork — as well as any number of plates emerging from the wood-fired hearth. We’re partial to the red cabbage with smoked herring and African pepper sauce and a glazed duck breast and leg, lacquered with cane syrup. Add in sides to share, and desserts, and you’ll see why Gourdet is so lauded.
4.L’Échelle Richmond map
This final project of restaurant titan Naomi Pomeroy was in its toddler-hood when the famed and beloved chef tragically died last summer. After a short run as a pop-up and a few months of build-out, L’Echelle is finally officially open again.On a recent visit, the restaurant hummed brightly, the space’s previously black-rimmed windows now shining an alluring cobalt blue. A short but expansive bistro menu offered all the hallmarks of French classics with a signature PNW flair. Oeufs as large as snowballs arrived buried in an airy, lemony aioli while a generous stack of chilled asparagus nestled into a green allium remoulade. Elsewhere,find a short raw menu and a quartet of well-priced mains like steak au poivre and seared duck breast. It’sthe buzziestrestaurant in town right now, and we can’twait to go back. Oh, and did we mention? Reservations are live.
5.Takibi Northwest map
Photo courtesy of Takibi
Taking up residence behind 23rd Avenue’s Snow Peak store — a high-end, Japanese outdoors gear retailer — this restaurant celebrates that feeling of sitting around a campfire at the turn of the seasons. After a fire earlier this year, the beautiful outdoors-meets-indoor Japanese American restaurant has reopened with a new team and menu. Find seasonal, wood-fired dishes alongside crunchy chicken karaage; silky dashi-simmered squash; hearth-fired American wagyu; and simple sushi and sashimi. Dream about your next camping trip from the dining room, with a cocktail in hand. Everything you need is just around the corner.
Photo courtesy of Takibi
6.Scotch Lodge Buckman map
As summer turns to fall, we’re trading sunny patio seating for cozy lounges to while away our nights. Enter Scotch Lodge, the warm, subterranean cocktail bar, whose menu was built for “whisky lovers,” a perfect respite for the rainy season ahead. Cocktails remain some of the best in town, highlighting Japanese whiskies, Islay Scotches and ingenious infused spirits in creative drinks like the Moon Age Daydream, shaken with Japanese gin, lotus orgeat, sansho peppercorn, and yuzu, and the Loch Stock, stirred with Scotch, mezcal, and lapsang souchong-infused sweet vermouth. Small and shareable salty snacks and bites balance out the drinks; the pickle spice fries are a must.
7.Monty’s Red Sauce Sellwood Moreland map
The newest restaurant in the Montelupo family, opening right around the corner from its Sellwood focacceria, is Monty’s Red Sauce, chef and owner Adam Berger’s version of an East Coast Italian American restaurant. Here, among low-slung, red vinyl booths, find dishes like generous portions of spaghetti and meatballs; thick, golden cutlets of chicken Parm; chicken marsala; and fried starters like mozzarella sticks and calamari alongside Monty’s creative spin on the antipasti plate: the mozzarella bar, with a you-pick selection of cheese, dips, and veggies.
8.Jade Rabbit Buckman map
This former vegan dim sum pop-up from chef Cyrus Ichiza, whose restaurant Ichiza Kitchen was a destination, just moved into its own digs on Southeast Belmont. Here, find deceivingly good vegan variations of many popular Chinese and dim sum dishes like grilled bean curd dumplings, turnip cake, spicy wontons, siu mai and char siu bao. Elsewhere on the menu, larger dishes like Jade’s take on dan dan noodles, mapo tofu, and a ramen-esque “mami noodle soup” fill out the rest of the table.
9.23rd Champagne Poetry Nob Hill map
A second, pink-flooded Champagne Poetry just landed on NW 23rd. This bold, unapologetic patisserie known for its Asian-inspired mirror-glazed cakelets, macarons, and occasional X-rated Valentine’s Day sweets, has expanded across the river with a cocktail lounge menu. At the new location, find the same beloved baked goods alongside an expanded Champagne list, creative cocktails, and new savory dishes like duck leg ramen, Hokkaido uni over rice, and sliced wagyu with purple sweet potatoes.
10.The Paper Bridge Central Eastside map
Photo courtesy of The Paper Bridge
The Paper Bridge’s “excessively detailed” menu (really, a manual) about the dishes it serves is one of the biggest draws of this Vietnamese restaurant. For every menu item, the restaurant offers a miniature history lesson and glossary entry, often noting the dish’s origins, regional significance, and geography alongside ingredient and cooking descriptions. It’s worth taking the time to flip between the menu and its descriptions before ordering rare-to-Portland dishes like stir-fried morning glory with three types of garlic, classic Hanoi favorite bún chả, and the addictive, piping hot Hai Phong-style breadsticks with pâté.
Photo courtesy of The Paper Bridge
11.LULU Central Eastside map
This Southeast Grand Avenue cocktail bar focuses on Nikkei cuisine, bringing a menu inspired by Peruvian ingredients with Japanese technique as well as Vietnamese flavors. Dishes on the short-but-sweet menu range from pork belly and shrimp salad rolls and leche de tigre-spiked oysters to akishisho chicken and noodles and saltado steak (as well as mushroom or tofu). An equally long cocktail menu takes much of the same global inspiration, shaking up Calpico with gin and melon, rum with tropical fruit, and rye with blood orange foam.
12.Jacqueline Clinton map
After a down-the-street move into Clinton Street’s former mussels house La Moule, Portland’s key oyster bar has reopened with all the same favorites. One of the city’s few seafood-centric spots, Jacqueline’s biggest claim to fame is the $1 oyster happy hour (harvested and delivered the same day!) and seasonal menu of fresh fare. Guests line up six days a week for oysters, fish-focused small plates, seasonal veggie salads and fishy large-format dishes. Summertime brings lobster buns, tossing Maine lobster and bay shrimp in lobster aioli; cedar-planked McFarland trout with grilled lemon; and in a nod to the location’s former owners, Totten Inlet mussels dotted with ‘nduja, garlic scapes, and fennel, appropriately named “La Moule.”
13.Estes Ristorante Mississippi map
Dame’s former anchor restaurant Estes is now taking up residence in Mississippi’s Broder Nord. Four evenings a week, chef Patrick McKee will be serving his Italian-inspired menu after the popular Scandinavian brunch spot shutters for the day, trading Swedish hash and aebleskivers for fresh pastas stuffed with butternut squash and porchetta paired with polenta and braised kale. The short but sweet menu changes frequently, swapping out seasonal veggies and pasta sets as winter continues to wane. For those that want to bring a bite of Estes home, neighborhood favorite Bella’s Italian Bakery in Southeast Portland stocks fresh pastas and sauces from the Estes team in the grab-and-go fridge.
14.HarBQ Mississippi Avenue map
It’s not a secret that Portland is a pretty good barbecue town, with transplanted Texas heavy-hitters smoking up excellent brisket, snappy sausages, and beyond. This past summer, roving barbecue truck HarBQ set up shop outside North Portland’s new Von Ebert Brewing, and brought its “Oregon oak smoked PNW ‘style’ BBQ” to the German-inspired brewery. From Friday to Sundays, find meats like brisket, beef cheek, fish sauce pork ribs, chimi pork shoulder, and sambal chicken paired with ginger miso carrot slaw, cheesy dashi grits, and miso koji butter corn. Like most good barbecue, they sell out quickly, so make sure to line up early.
Find more info here.
15.Bone Sine Mississippi map
Next door to its new-ish Mississippi Avenue Rangoon Bistro location comes an even newer drinking tavern from the same team. Named Bone Sine, a callback to the communal drinking taverns found in Myanmar, with a bar program from the Tulip Shop Tavern team, the late-night snack bar offers extra seating by day and a fun, shareable menu by night. Find options like tamarind chicken wings, lahpet htamin — the fluffy, fermented tea-leaf studded rice topped with a fried egg — cold sesame noodles, grilled housemade lemongrass sausage, and more. Drinks take inspiration from Burmese ingredients, with pandan-infused Campari Negronis, spicy Thai chile-spiked mango margaritas, and coconut fat-washed old-fashioneds.
Find more info here.
16.Coquine Mt. Tabor map
Nestled into the foot of Mt. Tabor, Coquine has been among Portland’s best restaurants since it opened 10 years ago. Known for deft seasonal dishes — chef Katy Millard’s resume includes years at Coi and Plum in the Bay Area — Coquine is truly a one-size-fits-all restaurant. By day, the next door market offers coffee alongside some of the city’s best baked goods, plus restaurant-made goods, pantry supplies, and wine. By night, the market transforms into the casual, seafood-focused Katy Jane’s: An Oyster Bar, while Coquine proper focuses on beautifully prepared seasonal cuisine available a la carte or as a prix fixe. At the end of the summer, dishes included chilled yellow squash soup, pork and peach ragu over housemademafalde pasta, and roasted chicken, glazed in molasses and black pepper, to share.
Book now on Tock.
17.No Saint Vernon map
No Saint’s excellent bread program and creative seasonal vegetable dishes earn this Northeast Portland restaurant a spot in the strong class of pizza and pizza-adjacent restaurants that have become pillars of the area’s culinary scene. Even in the winter months when seasonal options are limited, the menu continues to shine, and especially now with spring on the horizon. Salads are a must, like mache with preserved citrus and green daikon in a tahini vinaigrette. Elsewhere, housemade pastas are worth the table space and of course, the main event: Wonderfully chewy and creative pies that support a cast of toppings like nowhere else in town (cabbage alla gricia? Sign us up). These cycle through frequently and we’re consistently impressed.
18.Lil’ Barbecue Dekum map
Next month, Michelin-starred Austin, Texas BBQ joint La Barbecue will be coming to Portland. Partnering with the team behind The Old Gold, Paydirt and Holy Ghost, La Barbecue’s “far west outpost,” Lil’ Barbecue, will take over the kitchen at Northeast Dekum’s Tough Luck bar, spearheaded by general manager and pitmaster Ben Vaughan. Though we’re still waiting on menu details, it’s likely we’ll see the low and slow brisket, saucy pork ribs, smoked turkey, and snappy sausages that made it among the first four American barbecue joints to earn the distinction. Follow along for more details, and for their mid-October opening, on theirInstagram.
19.Berlu Buckman map
Vince Nguyen’s popular, gluten- and dairy-free Vietnamese bakery is back, with an expanded menu of offerings and longer hours. Now, four days a week in the same former fine-dining location, find the cult-favorite bánh bònướng, Berlu’s signature “baked cow cake” available in pandan or coffee, custard tarts sporting seasonal fruits, and refreshing chè packed with locally sourced fruit alongside a slate of new savory options. In place of soups — Berlu’sprevious savory option — now find a “BEC” bánh xèo lightened with a touch of basil and an avocado toast using a hard-grilled bánh bònướng as the base with alfalfa sprouts, fried shallots, and salted coconut cream.
Find more info here.
20.3 Doors Down Cafe & Lounge Se Portland map
Photo courtesy of 3 Doors Down Cafe & Lounge
This longstanding Portland vanguard restaurant — the name came from the restaurant’s locale three doors down from Hawthorne when it first opened more than 30 years ago — briefly shuttered last year, but is back with much of the same simple Italian-inspired classics that’smade it a neighborhood favorite since 1994. The short-and-sweetmenu begins with straightforward options like steamer clams, arancini, and eggplant rollatini before diving into a handful of pastas, available in half or full portions, and a few proteins like Alaskan halibut and chicken breast. Guests will see some familiar faces throughout the space, including the original owner Dave Marth back in charge, much of the same kitchen staff, and yes, the vodka sauce will also be back.
Photo courtesy of 3 Doors Down Cafe & Lounge
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Samantha Bakall is a Chinese American writer based in Portland whose work has appeared in The Oregonian — where she covered food for four years, Eater, National Geographic, and elsewhere. Follow her on Instagram. Follow Resy, too.
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