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Pépé le Moko

Around the corner from Clyde Common, Portland's restaurant-cum-cocktail bar mainstay, is Pépé le Moko, a small, dark, jazz-filled subterranean cocktail joint helmed by Jeffrey Morgenthaler. Overhead, a curved ceiling evokes the architecture…

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Ava Gene’s

Peering into the windows of Ava Gene's is like looking into the storybook version of Portland that everyone dreams about. It's all floating lights, lace curtains, wood-fired grills and elegant-rustic…

bar vivant portland
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Bar Vivant

Cheryl Wakerhauser opened Pix Patisserie in 2002 in an east side space barely bigger than a janitor's closet. The small bakery earned a reputation for its astonishingly underpriced list of…

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Bar Avignon

Bar Avignon may not be well known nationally, but in Portland, it has long maintained a position as one of the city's most reliable wine destinations. A cozy, narrow space that's almost…

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Levant

Open for just over a year, Chef Scott Snyder's mashup of French and Middle Eastern flavors by way of the Pacific Northwest has quickly earned a spot amongst the city's most…

navarre portland
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Navarre

Chef John Taboada has built a mini-empire of jewel box restaurants, which now includes Navarre, Luce and Angel Face. The flagship of the group, Navarre, pumps out an ever-changing pan-European…

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Le Pigeon

While Le Pigeon might qualify as a fine dining restaurant, it does the white tablecloth thing the Portland way. In 2006, the restaurant hired Chef Gabriel Rucker, then a 26-year-old…

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The Woodsman Tavern

The first restaurant from Stumptown founder Duane Sorenson—whose brood now includes Ava Gene's and Roman Candle—The Woodsman has always boasted a top-notch beverage program. The prototypical Portland restaurant, all Edison…