SUN RICE • BRUNCH • DINNER • COCKTAILS
Filipino restaurant · Boise ·
Filipino silogs, ube doughnuts, pork belly, and cocktails.
Filipino silogs, ube doughnuts, pork belly, and cocktails.
"Baon Kainan, TJ Cruz and Ken Tran over at Sun Rice, all these different types of Filipino stuff." - Thom Hilton
"Tucked inside the lobby of Portland’s Moxy hotel, Sun Rice specializes in silogs, Filipino breakfasts incorporating garlicky rice and fried eggs. Protein choices range from Pinoy classics like lemongrass-marinated chicken and lechon kawali, as well as fun one-off specials like corned beef and seared albacore steaks in coconut sauce." - Eater Staff
"My passion for silogs — garlic rice topped with sunny-side up eggs — grew from a hobby into a farmer’s market booth and residency to the current Filipino food stall I co-own with Ken Tran at downtown Portland’s Moxy Hotel called Sun Rice. Despite the small working space and being tucked inside a hotel lobby, I’m happy with the low-risk setup because I can keep things tight, dial everything in, and focus on consistent quality so people keep coming back. Being inside the hotel gives us useful amenities like accessible bathrooms, dishwashers, and a prep room, and the limited service model frees me to perfect my rice and richly flavored proteins like chicken adobo and barbecue pork belly while also letting me participate in things like Kolectivo and the Sobrang Sarap events." - Thom Hilton
"Sun Rice, originally announced for Flock as a Filipino pop-up, instead opened a Filipino silog stand in a different downtown Portland hotel food hall located within the Moxy." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"Hidden within the Moxy hotel in downtown Portland, Sun Rice sells garlicky rice silogs with a rotating cast of accompaniments, whether that’s lamb adobo, corned beef, or grilled fish. Almost always, chef TJ Cruz gives diners a choice of crispy pork belly, sinamak-marinated branzino, or chicken adobo as silog options, plus a vegetarian mushroom version made with maitakes. Keep an eye out for fun pop-ups and collaborations, like recent ones with cocktail bar Too Soon and Foster-Powell restaurant Street Disco." - Eater Staff
