Hawthorne


Find the best restaurants, doughnuts, and ice cream shops, from Southeast Hawthorne to Northwest


From luxuriant cheeseburgers to funky wine bars and destinations for omakase sushi, here’s where to eat and drink well in one of Southeast Portland’s top dining neighborhoods


Where to grab fried chicken, oysters on the half shell, and Vietnamese soups after midnight


Champagne Poetry, from the founder of La Rose Patisserie in Beaverton, serves pastel-hued cakes filled with guava-grapefruit gelée, macarons in flavors like mango-passionfruit, and raspberry-rose croissants topped with Italian meringue


Baka Umai will serve loaded bowls of ramen with “baka bombs,” or blends of black garlic and jalapeno
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A sibling restaurant to Thai Peacock, Khao Moo Dang specializes in the eponymous pork-and-rice dish found on the streets of Thailand


Baby Blue Pizza, a fully vegan pizza cart from a Gracie’s Apizza alum, will serve peach-covered pizzas with cart-made dough starting this week


Culture, the new restaurant and lounge from the Trail Blazers DJ, opened in May


Corned beef hash hits Killingsworth, lamb-covered Greek fries arrive in Multnomah Village, and all your other food cart news


Where to eat, drink, and brunch at Hawthorne Asylum


The Eater 38 barbecue cart will serve smoked meat tacos at the former Fried Egg I’m in Love location


It already scored a giant get: Bark City BBQ, Eater PDX’s 2018 Food Cart of the Year


Moberi is moving into the former Rachel’s Ginger Beer space, with design-your-own, made-to-order soft serve


Fried Egg I’m in Love will take over Blue Star’s SE Hawthorne spot


The Cartopia crepe cart will become Wild Mountain Honey, a breakfast and lunch sandwich cart


After seeing the news of the closure, Bowery Bagels owner Michael Madigan offered up his bakery to get things back on track
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Wholism, a new vegetarian and gluten-free cafe, checks off all those health nerd boxes, from grain-free to organic


Poke chef Colin Yoshimoto was let go last week; his coworkers soon followed him out


Its Facebook and Yelp accounts report the restaurant has shuttered


XinhXinh Bistro will serve classics like pho and bun, as well as satay noodle soup
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The police have also come to Eater Portland with new information


The company says it’s doing an “internal investigation”


The late-night pizza parlor is opening a new location blocks from the Belmont shop
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A Facebook post circulated Wednesday describing the alleged incident.

Slurp strawberry balsamic blizzards or gnaw on breathtakingly beautiful fried chicken


The spot closed, but the team says something new is coming soon


Rife says he’s pursuing legal counter-measures


DJs spin while guests guzzle tomatillo bloody marys


A new bar from the folks behind Church will open April 27 with saintly cocktails and chorizo dumplings


The bloodbath continues on SE Hawthorne


Meanwhile, The O’s is dreaming of Rose VL at Hem 23.

The owners somehow got their hands on old growth Oregon cedar from an old logging bridge


Meet the Hawthorne neighborhood’s new sushi spot
A “grown-up” version of the popular deli takes over former Mad Sons venue


“When you take something that old it starts talking with you,” says Brian McMenamin


Feastly is bringing a taste of NYC, DC, LA, and SF to PDX


Nimblefish is poised to bring a solid sushi option to the Hawthorne neighborhood
Kouzina at Angelo’s brings well-priced, fast-casual gyros and more


Expect Peruvian dishes like ceviche, stir-fried beef and spit-roasted chicken


Get ready for balut, fried ribs, chojang oyster shooters and five spice crispy pork belly