At Pok Pok, James Beard nominee Andy Ricker serves a seasonally rotating menu featuring the real flavors and fiery taste of Northern Thailand street foods like fish-sauce chicken wings, curry soups, and spicy steak salads. Even the drinking water is flavored with Thai Pandanus leaf which gives it that toasted rice/vanilla flavor.
3226 Southeast Division Street
(503) 232-1387
Portland is home to the country's most diverse food cart scene, typically parked in clusters called "pods." There are plenty of obsessively updated sites to check for daily locations, and maybe you'll even see former Shins drummer Jesse Sandoval at his food cart, Nuevo Mexico.
From her open kitchen at Beast, Food & Wine magazine's "Best New Chef" Naomi Pomeroy presents two community table seatings for a six-course menu based on what she describes as "great, right and true for one day in time." Opt for the local wine pairings that change with every menu.
5425 Northeast 30th Avenue
(503) 841-6968
Hearty, handcrafted, and farm direct menus.
3925 Northeast Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
(503) 288-6900
Big beautiful sandwiches of every possible combination.
621 Southeast Morrison Street
(503) 477-9515
Honest, classic pubhouse fare and local brews.
210 Northwest 11th Avenue
(503) 296-4906
Modern tavern food and craft spirits.
1014 Southwest Stark Street
(in the Ace Hotel Building)
(503) 228-3333
Homey but fine French cooking á la today.
738 East Burnside Street
(503) 546-8796
Blistered crusts under best-quality toppings.
304 Southeast 28th Avenue
(503) 517-9951
Small but homemade menu; bike through window.
4823 North Lombard Street
(503) 289-0120
Ever rotating offerings of finely assembled food and superior spirits.
720 Southeast Sandy Boulevard
(503) 235-8180
Bistro-style cooking with Northwest bounty.
720 Southeast Sandy Boulevard
(503) 235-8180
An indie steakhouse with butcher shop roots.
3155 East Burnside Street
(503) 206-3099
Imaginative pastries and elegant liquors.
3402 Southeast Division Street
(503) 232-4407
With a "double-A" rating—arty and affordable—the pet-friendly Ace Hotel is your home base in downtown Portland. Built in 1912 as the Clyde Hotel and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the grunge-modern with a touch of noir design has plenty of eco-aware touches including the use of recycled and repurposed material like the giant low-slung lobby table fashioned from a warehouse door surrounded by slouchy sofas covered in surplus army canvas. There's a vintage black-and-white photo booth in the lobby, Malin & Goetz products in the bathrooms (some are shared so be specific when asking about accommodations), enough legendary locally roasted Stumptown coffee to keep everyone going, and an elk-embellished Ace Hotel bed blanket woven at Pendleton Woolen Mills, a local institution since 1909.
1022 Southwest Stark Street
(503) 228-2277
Offering conventionally luxurious accommodations and extended facilities for business travelers, The Nines sits on the top nine floors of the former Meier & Frank department store, a Portland landmark since 1908. Check out the installation from local artists including Gus Van Sant, Ellen George, and Storm Tharp.
525 Southwest Morrison Street
(503) 222-9996
A member of the Historic Hotels of America and on the National Register of Historic Places, The Heathman Hotel has been an icon of the city's skyline for eight decades. Recently completing a 4 million dollar landfill-free "green" upgrade, The Heathman offers luxurious accommodations in the heart of the cultural and financial district. You can select your own slumber style with the "Art of Sleep" menu: TempurPedic, European Pillow-top or European Feather-top.
1001 Southwest Broadway
(503) 241-4100
Hotel Lucia offsets a sleekly minimalism backdrop with touches of rich textures and bold colors. There are custom touches in the rooms like individualized pillow firmness, 24-hour room service from its outstanding Thai restaurant Typhoon, and a "Get It Now!" button on the phone. Plus, the largest permanent collection of Oregon's Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly's work is on display throughout the hotel.
400 Southwest Broadway
(503) 225-1717
A renovated mid-century motor inn, The Jupiter Hotel is a late night bohemian asylum with "quiet" and "loud" sides offsetting the Doug Fir lounge, the city's legendary live music venue, and a tattoo parlor on premise. The pet-friendly spread offers specials like the Bike Package (rentals included) and Distillery Tour (passport to nearby craft spirit masters turning out small batch liquors and absinthe).
800 East Burnside Street
(503) 230-9200
McMenamin's Kennedy School, located in a renovated historic elementary school, offers unusual but comfortable guestrooms fashioned from old classrooms complete with original chalkboards, cloakrooms and private baths. There are all sorts of nooks and crannies, including quirky bars from the huge multilevel Boiler Room (in the authentic space, now only decorated with pipes, radiators) and to the tiny Detention Room bars and outdoor gardens featuring a salt water soaking pool.
5736 Northeast 33rd Avenue
(503) 249-3983
With an unerring eye toward modern functionality and eco-friendly design, Canoe's well-culled objects for home and office daily life are displayed in a Scandinavian-influenced natural environment that manages to be open, airy, and warm—all at the same time.
1136 Southwest Alder
(503) 889-8545
Pendleton Home Store, the fifth generation local company's flagship, has everything from their signature Native American blankets woven on jacquard looms to the iconic double pocket, square bottom Umatilla wool plaid shirt made famous in the early sixties by the Beach Boys, once called "The Pendletones."
210 Northwest Broadway
(503) 535-5444
The exclusive—perhaps even unheard of—clothing lines at Odessa show-case capsule collections from thoughtful designers under the direction of Susan Tompkins, whose former work in a photography gallery supports her understanding of shape and form.
410 Southwest 13th Avenue
(503) 223-1998
Museum vibe in the first location for what became a worldwide brand.
930 Southwest Sixth Avenue
(503) 221-6453
Eclectic cosmopolitan style from fashion to design objects.
1225 Northwest Everett Street
(503) 227-8530
Contemporary women's clothing: simply designed, artfully arranged.
429 Southwest 10th Avenue
(503) 222-6838
Fashion with a global outlook mindful of sustainable sourcing.
827 Northwest 23rd Avenue
(503) 477-6818
Blending local art and fashion in a gallery-like setting.
414 Southwest 10th Avenue
(503) 928-6435
Independent designer for flawless construction; by appointment.
338 Southeast Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
(503) 234-1376
Retro-modern men's style maker.
2505 Southeast 11th Avenue
(503) 922-1298
Repurposed architectural finds and home décor fixings in rummage-sale style.
1040 East Burnside Street
(503) 231-1444
Chocolate in all its glorious incarnations.
414 Southwest 13th Avenue
(503) 241-065
Vintage treasures and covetable clutter.
3948 North Mississippi Avenue
(503) 288-1649
Clothing, art, and objects in the general store of today.
1323 Northwest Irving Street
(503) 416-7476
Small creative labels for men and women and rotating local art installations.
3556 Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard
(503) 963-8200
Refined luxury home décor with unique plant and stone yard.
1825 Northwest Vaughn Street
(503) 227-7755
Started in 1970 with seed money from author Saul Bellow, Powell's City of Books is the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. It shelves more than one million volumes —including a huge collection of out-of-print, rare and autographed books—stacked up in more than 68,000 square feet divided into nine color-coded rooms, which together house more than 3,500 sections. It's so labyrinthine you can get a store map when you enter.
1005 West Burnside Street
(503) 228-4651
With the ideal climate for growing roses, Portland has been known as "The City of Roses" for over a century, and The International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park is the country's oldest official test garden of its kind, displaying over 10,000 plants. While you are there, stop by the nearby authentic Japanese Garden, featuring five distinct traditional styles: Strolling Pond Garden, Tea Garden, Natural Garden, Flat Garden, and Sand & Stone Garden.
400 Southwest Kingston Avenue
(503) 823-3636
611 Southwest Kingston
(503) 223-1321
One of the top ten science museums in the country, designed to entertain, educate, and inspire.
1945 Southeast Water Avenue
(503) 797-4624
The Discovery Museum, built in dramatic Cascadian-style architecture, is dedicated to the demystifying the life of the forest.
4033 Southwest Canyon Road
(503) 228-1367
Started over a century ago in the back of a Portland pharmacy and now the state's leading paid attraction.
4001 Southwest Canyon Road
(503) 226-1561
An old-school playland of classic video and arcade games.
511 Northwest Couch Street
(503) 796-9364
Stark's Vacuum Cleaner Sales & Service. Check out over 300 machines that go back to the late 19th century.
107 Northeast Grand Avenue
(503) 232-4101
Built without permission almost twenty years ago by hardcore skateboarders and later sanctioned by the city.
Underneath the Burnside Bridge on the east side of the Willamette River.
Consistently named one of the best in the country.
Portland State University in the South Park Blocks between Southwest Hall & Southwest Montgomery.
Within minutes of the city, a 143-acre wildlife nature sanctuary and 4.5 miles of maintained trails for free.
5151 Northwest Cornell Road
(503) 292-6855
Arts, crafts, food, and street entertainers.
Underneath the west end of the Burnside Bridge between SW First Ave. and SW Naito Pkwy
(503) 222-6072
The south of Portland representing over 200 dealers.
7027 Southeast Milwaukie Avenue
(503) 235-5990
