The Best Things Eater Portland Ate in July 2025 | Eater Portland

"Newly reopened in a bigger, brighter space, this Vietnamese cafe has returned with its beloved diasporic pastry lineup and a few new savories, and I went twice in one week. The first thing that broke my brain wasn’t the popular, beautifully corrugated pandan bánh bò nướng, but a coconut egg custard tart crowned with shaggy salted egg yolk — a crisp cassava crust and not-too-sweet filling jolted by the dried yolk’s salty richness for a nuanced bite. On the savory side, the BEC bánh xèo takes a bacon-egg-and-cheese approach to a turmeric–coconut milk powder–rice flour crepe; I ordered it without bacon and still got plenty of fattiness from the egg, cheese, and avocado, which I tucked into lettuce with herbs and dunked into tangy nước chấm." - Eater Staff