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

"When it opened in 2009, East Burnside’s Laurelhurst Market was emblematic of the current state of Portland dining, celebrating whole animal butchery and in-house everything. The market’s butcher shop supplied the restaurant with then-uncommon cuts like culottes and cured things like bacon and charcuterie. Fifteen years later, Laurelhurst remains a bastion of truly inventive steakhouse fare, yuzu-mustard jus adding zip to marinated hanger steaks or pickled green garlic cutting the richness of a grilled New York strip. Visitors should go for the wonderfully intricate (but not overly complicated) starters and salads — perhaps crispy maitake mushrooms with miso green goddess and marinated cucumber, or a harvest salad balancing pickle-y acidity with hazelnut romesco. Another must: the skillet-crisp cornbread with whipped lardo and rosemary honey." - Katherine Chew Hamilton