Local Restaurants, Food Carts, and Businesses

Restaurants

• The Portland Mercado — a suite of Latinx-owned food businesses and community center in SE Portland
• Carnelian Coffee Shop — locally owned coffee shop featuring a museum-like collection of rocks; they also run a small geology bookstore in their shop
• Nicolas Lebanese Restaurant — a long-standing Lebanese-owned and run restaurant
• Queen of Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant — a long-standing Ethiopian restaurant in a district of the city with many Ethiopian/Eritrean-owned businesses
• Hoda's Lebanese Restaurant — farm-to-table Lebanese food
• Chin's Kitchen — Hollywood District
• Nostrana — local-sourced, community-engaged, excellent food (one of Portland’s best pizza sites)
• Darsalam — outstanding Iraqi food, several locations, multiple GF and veggie offerings
• Habibi — similar menu to that of Darsalam, but Syrian/Lebanese and downtown
• Higgins — expensive, but one of the local-source founders in Portland; ample patronage during GSA 2009 Annual Meeting and 2019 Cordilleran Section Meeting

Food Carts

• Get a taste of Portland's flavors with a focus on fresh and local ingredients

Black-Owned Businesses

• Portland Monthly’s guide to Black-owned companies

Portland's Budding Pizza Scene

Is Portland the Best Pizza City in the U.S.?

Notable pizza restaurants:

• Apizza Scholls: 4741 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
• Handsome Pizza: 1603 NE Killingsworth St.
• Ken's Artisan Pizza: 304 SE 28th Ave.
• Lovely's Fifty Fifty: 4039 N. Mississippi Ave.
• Nostrana: 1401 SE Morrison St. Ste. 101
• Red Sauce Pizza: 4641 NE Fremont St
• Scottie's Pizza Parlor: 2128 SE Division St.
• Sizzle Pie: 926 W Burnside St.

Exciting New Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurants

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