Jacqueline
Seafood restaurant · Hosford-Abernathy ·
Seasonal seafood dishes, $1 oysters, creative crudos & crab toast
Seasonal seafood dishes, $1 oysters, creative crudos & crab toast
"This Portland restaurant offers a fervent commitment to fresh seafood in a Wes Anderson-inspired bistro setting. The $1 oyster happy hour from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. draws in newcomers, but the inventive crudos and Dungeness crab toast — with generous hunks of crab, hollandaise, and chiles — will convert more than a few into regulars. The $90, family-style tasting menu is fairly priced, considering the range and execution of the dishes served. A full bar offers lively cocktails, a seafood-friendly wine list, and Rainier tall boys. Reservations can be made via Resy." - Ben Coleman
"For a taste of the Pacific Northwest — both its vegetables and its seafood — this Southeast Clinton restaurant doesn’t miss. The meal starts with raw dishes like juniper-cured salmon with green tomatoes or hamachi crudo swimming in a shallow pool of mam nem, followed by salads that show off the best of the current season, be it tomatoes and peaches with burrata or pears, or radicchio and fennel with Roquefort. From there, meals can head in a variety of directions, finishing off with a bowl of clams, crispy-fried pork ribs, or anything in between. Meals are $90 each, served family style. Make a reservation on Resy." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"Presented as a splurge-worthy seafood restaurant and a top dinner recommendation on the city’s essential list." - Dianne de Guzman
"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
"A Southeast Asian–inspired seafood outfit that relocated to the former La Moule location at 2500 SE Clinton Street last fall, this restaurant was especially hard hit by the pandemic: Hanson says to-go seafood and oysters, shockingly, didn’t do well, and after a few months the business went dark, shutting down in fall 2020. Four out of five businesses on the corridor closed during that period, and in 2021 the owner retooled the original operation into the Fair Weather pop-up, which itself paused in summer 2021. Friends later bought the old La Moule spot and invited the seafood outfit to relocate in November 2024, enabling both concepts to find new homes and helping set the stage for the broader corridor's comeback." - Paolo Bicchieri