Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub
Restaurant · Chinatown ·
Irish pub with live music, stout, whiskey, and farm-to-table grub
Irish pub with live music, stout, whiskey, and farm-to-table grub
"Family-owned brewpub Kells first opened downtown in 1990, though the family began brewing beer at Kells’s Northwest Portland brewery in 2012. Kells’ Gerard McAleese and Lucy McAleese own 50-acre farm in Wilsonville, which provides ingredients used in the pub’s kitchen. The Irish Stew is not be missed, with its salty, tender McAleese farm lamb and potatoes tempered by the addition of the brewery’s own Irish stout. For dessert, bread pudding with whiskey-soaked raisins and Tullamore DEW butter sauce is a good move before heading to the cigar lounge."
"Both Portland locations of this Irish brewpub and restaurant offer roaring fireplaces where regulars cozy up with a pint of Guinness or a double of Jameson. With a menu of corned beef and cabbage, lamb stew, and shepherd’s pie, Kells uses a diversity of tactics to warm up its visitors on chilly evenings." - Eater Staff
"Kells sources produce, hops, lamb, and eggs from its own 50-acre farm and is donating 300 family farm eggs per week to the Oregon Food Bank." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"A long-running Portland pub that normally stages a weeklong slate of dances, boxing matches, beer tents, and parties for St. Patrick’s, it has had to drastically alter or cancel those events in response to public-health restrictions." - Brenna Houck
"The upscale English and Irish restaurant has suspended its family-style takeout menu for the time being, but an Instagram post says the restaurant plans to come back with takeout service down the line." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden