The List

Everyone has that restaurant they always say they're going to try one day but never quite recall when deciding where to eat out. Well that was me about two years ago. I had heard about all of these great restaurants in the Portland Oregon area. When asked the question “where do you want to go to dinner?” I could only think of about five restaurants to chose from. So of course thats where I always went. They were great but I like to try new things. So I made my New Years resolution for 2013 to finally try all those restaurants I kept hearing about. To be sure I didn't forget the names, I started a list. It is composed of recommendations and some research of the best places to eat in Portland. Although I haven’t been to all of them, I am slowly working my way through. I can’t confirm that they are all list worthy but I have yet to encounter one that isn’t. To be list worthy the restaurant must be good enough to both recommend to others and to want to go back. My list has a variety of styles of restaurants. It ranges from a simple whole-in-the-wall place to some of the fanciest restaurants. Hopefully you can find one you like. Enjoy!

1. Waffle Window
2. Merakesh
3. Mothers
4. Pacific Pie
5. Sweedeedee
6. Screen door
7. Le Pigeon
8. Toro Bravo
9. Tasty n’ sons
10. Castagna
11. Little Bird Bistro
12. Ava genes
13. Honey Toast Cafe
14. Stumptown coffee
15. Slappy Cakes
16. Little Big Burger
17. Killer Burger
18. Salt and Straw
19. Habibi
20. Ringside
21. The Melting Pot
22. Urban Fondue
23. Grassa
24. Brunch Box
25. Mod pizza
26. Fat City Cafe
27. Picnic House
28. Porque no?
29. Pine State Biscuits
30. Tin Shed Garden Cafe
31. Kiva
32. O’Connors
33. Paragon
34. Byways cafe
35. Tilt
36. Besaws
37. Olympic Provisions
38. Andina
39. Brix Tavern
40. Oba
41. Cha Cha Cha
42. Irvine St. Kitchen
43. On deck
44. Island Cafe
45. Rock Botton Brewery
46. Mac!
47. Petite Province
48. Fire on the Mountain
49. Apizza Scholls
50. Country Cat
51. Thai Herbs
52. Dangs Thai Kitchen
53. Luc Lac
54. Shigezo
55. Imperial
56. Trifecta
57. Hubers
58. Fields Bar and Grill
59. Thai Noon
60. Decarli
61. Serrato
62. Du’s
63. Taste Tickler
64. Gravy
65. Mad Greek
66. Piazza Italia
67. The Departure
68. Oswego Grill
69. Swiss and Hibiscus
70. Stickmens
71. Bowl and berry
72. Rimsky's
73. Old town pizza
74. Son of a Biscuit