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Coffee shop · Sunnyside
There's so much great coffee in Portland but Stumptown is the OG and still making great coffee. This is the first original location (and bonus! Kim Jong Grillin' Korean food cart across the street) but if you need decent coffee while downtown there's one in the Ace Hotel.
Gourmet grocery store · Kerns
Extremely high end provisions/deli/wine store with the best of everything. You'll be poor when you leave but eating/cooking like a king. Best cheese, salami, chips and chocolate selection in the city if you're looking to stock up on best road trip snacks. Also the only place I know that sells retail the Best Chips of All Time - Juanita's Chilipeno flavor tortilla chips.
Ice cream shop · Northwest District
Salt and Straw gets more press but purely based on delicious ice cream in classic and slightly more interesting flavor combos, Fifty Licks is where it's at.
Vietnamese restaurant · Downtown
Reliable quality Vietnamese
Japanese restaurant · Creston-Kenilworth
Sushi so good my brother proposed to his wife here. Taka's Tuna - crispy fried rice "sled" with spicy ahi mounded on top is more than the sum of its parts.
Vietnamese restaurant · Foster-Powell
Tiny spot with ZERO ambiance and whatever location on Powell but the best soup/soup noodles I've had in this city. Rotating special of two soups a day - all bangers.
Permanently Closed
An "only in Portland" sui generis place in a converted neighborhood home. Chef here takes an "everything but the kitchen sink" approach to ingredients and flavors - I'm serious, like 40 things in every dish - but it ends up just as one of a kind deliciousness. The Medusa "fries" starter is so perfect that I will get a whole order just for myself for dinner and not share. Umami bombs away!
Ice cream shop · Richmond
PEERLESS gelato/sorbetto. I've never been a huge ice cream person but this place has me coming back regularly. The Italian owner makes thoughtful and DELICIOUS flavor creations. Term "artisinal" is overused I know (especially here in Portland) but it applies here. Don't miss the lemon sorbetto if it's there.
Restaurant · Sunnyside
Platonic ideal of breakfast sandwiches. If you need hangover help, or just a really fucking delicious comforting breakfast sandwich, go here. Get pickled onions and aardvark aioli on whatever you order.
New American restaurant · Mt. Tabor
Fresh, seasonal, perfectly prepared brunch, lunch, baked goods and coffee/drinks tucked in a little neighborhood just on side of Mt Tabor. Coquine is perfect, it has my heart.
