Factual, not opinion. In no specific order.
1. Nostrana
Mike Bodge: Killer wood fired everything and really nice wine/cocktail list.
2. Xico
Mike Bodge: Inventive oaxacan...still a bit under the radar. Crazy mezcal list.
3. Ava Gene's
Mike Bodge: For a special occasion.
4. Coava Coffee Roasters Cafe
Mike Bodge: This is Portland.
5. Either/Or
Mike Bodge: Best place for coffee in Sellwood. Try an espresso flight.
6. Grassa
Mike Bodge: Perfect lunch spot downtown.
7. Kachka
Mike Bodge: Horseradish vodka and pretty much anything on the menu. This is where you bring friends from out of town.
8. La Moule
Mike Bodge: Bring a date so you can order more stuff. Cocktails are good too.
9. Nong's Khao Man Gai
Mike Bodge: The definitive portland food cart. Get the piset size so you can stuff your face more.
10. Langbaan
Mike Bodge: Blow your mind every few months.
11. Paadee
Mike Bodge: From the Langbaan people...might be better than Pok Pok. Order anything. PS: Happy hour is cheap as hell.
12. Laurelhurst Market
Mike Bodge: Grab a sandwich for lunch and a bunch of meat from the butcher shop.
13. Chicken and Guns
Mike Bodge: Best chicken ever.
14. Pok Pok
Mike Bodge: Needs no tip.
15. Renata
Mike Bodge: Fancy pants.
16. Ha VL
Mike Bodge: Best restaurant in Portland? Only two different soups served a day, go before noon.
17. Portland Farmer's Market at PSU
Mike Bodge: It's a farmers market. Buy stuff from a farm.
18. Tasty 'N Sons
Mike Bodge: The definitive portland wait forever brunch spot. Try waiting forever at their spot on Alder as well.
19. Salt & Straw
Mike Bodge: ICE CREAM. Try a taste of anything weird they have on the menu but get a cone of something more straight forward.
20. Restaurant St Jack
Mike Bodge: FRENCH FOOD.
21. Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom
Mike Bodge: Daily rotating taps of crazy shit.
22. APEX
Mike Bodge: Amazing outdoor picnic tables to booze while basking in the glow of Division Street.
23. Pine State Biscuits
Mike Bodge: Get fat here.
24. MÅURICE
Mike Bodge: Aesthetically pleasing pastry and lunch shop.
25. Olympia Provisions SE
Mike Bodge: Eat things with meat in it.
26. Pollo Norte
Mike Bodge: Amazing latin rotisserie chickens. Get all the sides too.
27. Nodoguro
Mike Bodge: If you can get a ticket, go.
28. Barista
Mike Bodge: Favorite coffee shop in portland...serving the best coffees roasted in the region. All of their locations are great.
29. Hat Yai
Mike Bodge: Get the chicken?
30. Lovely's Fifty Fifty
Mike Bodge: Naturally leavened deliciousness + ice cream
31. Handsome Pizza
Mike Bodge: Get a pizza plus whatever salad they have going on.
32. Seastar Bakery
Mike Bodge: Awesome bakery by day, pizza by night.
33. Rose VL Deli
Mike Bodge: Get the lunch special.
34. Pip's Original
Mike Bodge: Forget Voodoo and Blue Star...this is the spot.
35. Olympia Provisions SE
36. Lardo
Mike Bodge: Beer, sandwich, eat outside.
37. Apizza Scholls
Mike Bodge: Potentially the best pizza in Portland with an old school suburban pizza place feel.
38. Angel Food and Fun Mexican Restaurant
Mike Bodge: Poc Chuc Poc Chuc Poc Chuc & Cochinita Pibil
39. Pollo Bravo
Mike Bodge: Gaspacho and a half chicken.
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