Canard Beaverton

Canard Set to Open a New Location in Beaverton in Fall 2025 | Eater Portland

"Chef Gabriel Rucker and co-owners Andy Fortgang and Taylor Daughtery are opening a new Beaverton outpost set to open in Fall 2025 at the former Beaverton Bakery (12395 SW Broadway Street) — specifically the movie-theater space that later morphed into a sign shop after the bakery’s closure in 2018. Rucker says the team was on the hunt for a new location and landed on Beaverton because it not only has a “great population of hungry people,” but also that “It had all the energy and all the feelings of, ‘This can work,’” Rucker says. “I’ve been in countless places where I don’t have that feeling, so I’m able to recognize that feeling these days. [Daugherty and I] both had the feeling of, ‘This has the vibe that can be [it].’” Daughtery agrees the building has character and that “When you walk in, there’s the old movie theater marquee out front and a mezzanine that’s still up there — it just felt like it had already lived a life, and that we could breathe a new one into it,” Daughtery says. Mark Annen of Annen Architecture will handle the design once again, much like he did with Little Bird (which closed in 2019) and both existing locations. The team plans to include staples such as the duck stack, steam burgers, and oeufs en mayonnaise, and to model the new menu more closely on the family-friendly Oregon City location (opened in 2022); Rucker notes that “Portland is kind of on an island, and a little bit of an outlier from the menu — it vibes a little bit differently,” and that “these two restaurants [Oregon City and Beaverton], we really want them to be more mirroring of the menus and more in line with each other, but we want that signature dessert to be a little bit different.” Rucker is developing a graham cracker-toasted marshmallow icebox cake to serve as the Beaverton signature dessert alongside the standout Paris-Brest at the Burnside Street location and the mille-feuille in Oregon City. The owners — behind an acclaimed Portland restaurant that debuted in the Buckman neighborhood and earned a spot on Eater’s national Best New Restaurants list in 2018 — hope the Beaverton outpost will be embraced as a neighborhood destination in the way the Oregon City restaurant has been, becoming a place for anniversaries and birthdays, regular lunches at the bar, and long-term community ties: “As [we] expand out into the suburbs and it’s more families, you picture yourself being there for 20 years, if you have a good run and if you’re lucky,” Daughtery says. “And you see young families grow up, you see kids start to have their prom dinners there — and that’s when you know you’ve struck it.”" - Dianne de Guzman