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

"When Jacqueline opened on Southeast Clinton, it slowly became known as a Pacific Northwestern seafood restaurant, a place for $1 oysters and Dungeness crab toast. Both are still available at Jacqueline today — the former during happy hour, the latter on the dinner menu. However, this restaurant is far more than its blockbusters. Begin with a flurry of raw dishes, like hamachi crudo, matched with the caramelized char of grilled pickled pineapple and the salty fermented fish funk of mam nem. From there, lean into vegetables like marinated asparagus and morels paired with gooey burrata, or blistered sweet snap peas providing contrast to soft nettle-ricotta gnocchi. Or go for a seafood main like a cedar plank whole trout or smoked black cod in tea dashi. The restaurant’s family-style tasting menu, at $90 per person, is worth every cent." - Katherine Chew Hamilton