Portland’s Best Restaurants and Bars, Spring 2025 | Eater Portland

"Jazz plays while pots of pu’erh, mugs of coffee, and glasses of Austrian wine land at tables around this charming French-Scandinavian cafe in downtown Portland. Meals at Maurice feel luxurious in their simplicity, thanks to the restaurant’s leisurely pace and minimalist plates. Diners might start with radishes with French butter or razor clams in seaweed butter, moving on to the smørbrød of the day or a Norwegian yogurt soup with rhubarb and rye berries, and ending with a duck breast or ling cod fillet. Peppery cheesecakes and souffle pudding cakes fragrant with Meyer lemon are a must for fika, the Swedish tradition of a coffee or tea break with something sweet on the side." - Katherine Chew Hamilton