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

"Chef Fatou Ouattara has become the city’s unofficial West African culinary ambassador, hosting cooking classes and selling sauces out of her Southeast Division restaurant. In a dining room lined with art, occasionally hosting spoken word poets, live music, and DJs, diners tear apart suya-rubbed wings and snack on fried sweet plantains, slathering them with Ouattara’s signature garlicky, gingery, tomatoey dipping sauce. Any meal should involve one of the restaurant’s stews. Menus change, so one day, that might be Senegalese, peanut butter-rich mafe yapp, while other visits may involve fall-apart tender goat. Sides of supremely flavorful jollof rice and springy fufu are both musts." - Katherine Chew Hamilton