
The Resy Hit List: Where In Portland You’ll Want to Eat in June 2025
There’s no question we hear more often: Where should I go eat? And while we at Resy know it’s an honor to be the friend who everyone asks for restaurant advice, we also know it’s a complicated task. That’s where the Resy Hit List comes in.
Consider it your essential resource for dining in Portland: a monthly-updated guide to the restaurants that you won’t want to miss — tonight or any night.
Four Things In Portland Not to Miss This Month
- Lares Wine x G-Love: Get your tickets for a one-night-only, 10-course, prix-fixe menu at G-Love with curated Lares Wine greatest hits, plus unreleased pours and reserve pairings. The specialty wine dinner is $250/person, and includes dinner and wine. Reserve your seat here.
- All For Dad: Take your dad or father figure out on the town this Father’s Day. If the weather cooperates, make the best of a lovely mid-June day by dining on the patio at Tusk, Bar West, Takibi (also great if you want to buy any outdoors equipment), or No Saint. Make a pit stop at Bar Nina or Heavenly Creatures for a celebratory glass of wine before heading home.
- Now Open: Head to Fubonn Shopping Center to visit Portland’s newest Filipino panaderia, Balong, home to one of the city’s best new breakfast sandwiches, a thick potato pavé-style hash brown, and an assortment of re-imagined baked goods.
- Bahn Puen Chef’s Dinner: On June 29, five chefs, including Kasem Saengsawang (Farmhouse Kitchen), Tue Nguyen (Nudi), Sam Smith (Yaowarat), chef Ple (Galangal Thai House CDMX), and Boss Phimmanon (Phaya Thai Express) will combine their talents for a 10-course, family-style (and gluten-free) tasting menu at Mestizo. Get more details and snag a seat here.
New to the Hit List (June 2025)
Champs Burgers, Moon Pocha, The Paper Bridge.
1. Heavenly Creatures Sullivan's Gulch

The original St. Jack duo that brought Portland its beloved and longstanding French bistro got back together to recreate this bit of magic. The can’t-miss wine bar offers a short-but-sweet menu of French-inspired drinking foods that helps keep the wine flowing all night. Snacks like whipped Camembert with potato chips and the young yellowtail toast have risen to signature status, while heartier snacks and plates like poached halibut and manila clams with lobster-garlic bread and braised oxtail with cherry tomatoes and sauce verte mean you won’t need to stop elsewhere for “real” dinner. Wine, of course, is the main event, ranging from a lengthy glass pour list to a robust bottle selection, available to enjoy on site with a corkage fee or at home.

2. Champs Burgers Brooklyn
Tucked behind European-inspired brewery and taproom Away Days Brewing Co., you’ll find Champs Burgers, the once-pop-up now turned full-time food cart. Like many of Portland’s great burger joints, the menu is simple: A cheeseburger (made with dry-aged beef, quality American cheese, onions, pickles, and burger sauce on a housemade Cairspring Mills flour-based bun), in a single, double, and thick version. Plus, a rotating special (previous favorites have included a lengua pastrami burger and pickled jalapeño-topped Oklahoma burger); beef tallow fries; and a cookie (from classics like chopped chocolate chip to pumpkin toffee spiced corn). The cart continues to draw long lines, and it’s worth joining the queue.
Find more info here.
3. Kann Southeast Portland
Portland’s arguably most sought-after restaurant proudly focuses on chef Gregory Gourdet’s Haitian heritage. And it’s still worth trying to snag a reservation. The James Beard Award-winning menu is truly best suited for joyous reunion, with groups of four to six (or more in the private dining space!) getting a chance to try a little bit of everything if you’re sharing across the table. Don’t miss the signature dishes — the plaintain brioche and the griyo twice-cooked pork — as well as any number of plates emerging from the wood-fired hearth. We’re partial to the red cabbage with smoked herring and African pepper sauce and a glazed duck breast and leg, lacquered with cane syrup. Add in sides to share, and desserts, and you’ll see why Gourdet is so lauded.
4. Ancestro Park Blocks
One of the city’s newest brunch spots has quietly risen through the power rankings. Popping up in the Park Blocks’ Cadejo coffee shop on Thursday-Sunday mornings, Ancestro’s simple but well-executed menu of Mexican dishes like chilaquiles with pork belly, sopes with pickled cactus and black bean, buttery crisp tortas, and black bean-laced tlacoyos topped with scrambled eggs and tomato-onion sauce has been quickly gathering a cult following. Like the best restaurants in town, everything is excellent, so either come with a group or plan a return trip soon.
Find more info here.
5. Takibi Northwest

Taking up residence behind 23rd Avenue’s Snow Peak store — a high-end, Japanese outdoors gear retailer — this restaurant celebrates that feeling of sitting around a campfire at the turn of the seasons. After a fire earlier this year, the beautiful outdoors-meets-indoor Japanese American restaurant has reopened with a new team and menu. Find seasonal, wood-fired dishes alongside crunchy chicken karaage; silky dashi-simmered squash; hearth-fired American wagyu; and simple sushi and sashimi. Dream about your next camping trip from the dining room, with a cocktail in hand. Everything you need is just around the corner.

6. Someday Richmond
Down an alley along Southeast Division, is Someday, the neighborhood cocktail bar from bartending vets-turned-back-alley cocktail patio and mini food cart pod. Sip old and new cocktail recipes from a classic Scofflaw to a reimagined daiquiri, here infused with pandan. Bites (from the bar itself) focus heavily on snacks, with dishes like olives, cheeses, anchovies, simple veggie plates and a fancier old-fashioned weiner. But if none of the bar’s options fit your fancy, or you missed snagging a reservation for the bar’s Sunday evening oyster grill, explore Ruthie’s, the wood-fired pizza cart located just behind the bar.
7. Monty’s Red Sauce Sellwood Moreland
The newest restaurant in the Montelupo family, opening right around the corner from its Sellwood focacceria, is Monty’s Red Sauce, chef and owner Adam Berger’s version of an East Coast Italian American restaurant. Here, among low-slung, red vinyl booths, find dishes like generous portions of spaghetti and meatballs; thick, golden cutlets of chicken Parm; chicken marsala; and fried starters like mozzarella sticks and calamari alongside Monty’s creative spin on the antipasti plate: the mozzarella bar, with a you-pick selection of cheese, dips, and veggies.
8. Jade Rabbit Buckman
This former vegan dim sum pop-up from chef Cyrus Ichiza, whose restaurant Ichiza Kitchen was a destination, just moved into its own digs on Southeast Belmont. Here, find deceivingly good vegan variations of many popular Chinese and dim sum dishes like grilled bean curd dumplings, turnip cake, spicy wontons, siu mai and char siu bao. Elsewhere on the menu, larger dishes like Jade’s take on dan dan noodles, mapo tofu, and a ramen-esque “mami noodle soup” fill out the rest of the table.
9. Champagne Poetry Asian Fusion/Lounge Nob Hill
A second, pink-flooded Champagne Poetry just landed on NW 23rd. This bold, unapologetic patisserie known for its Asian-inspired mirror-glazed cakelets, macarons, and occasional X-rated Valentine’s Day sweets, has expanded across the river with a cocktail lounge menu. At the new location, find the same beloved baked goods alongside an expanded Champagne list, creative cocktails, and new savory dishes like duck leg ramen, Hokkaido uni over rice, and sliced wagyu with purple sweet potatoes.
10. The Paper Bridge Central Eastside

The Paper Bridge’s “excessively detailed” menu (really, a manual) about the dishes it serves is one of the biggest draws of this Vietnamese restaurant. For every menu item, the restaurant offers a miniature history lesson and glossary entry, often noting the dish’s origins, regional significance, and geography alongside ingredient and cooking descriptions. It’s worth taking the time to flip between the menu and its descriptions before ordering rare-to-Portland dishes like stir-fried morning glory with three types of garlic, classic Hanoi favorite bún chả, and the addictive, piping hot Hai Phong-style breadsticks with pâté.

11. Silk Road Pearl District
Drawing inspiration from the famed Eurasian trade route, expect to find cocktails and food at this Pearl District late-night bar infused with east and west Asian ingredients. The glamorous bar is a collaboration between LULU’s Vijay Kumar and Chinese stalwart Ambassador’s Lexy Foong, who is supplying the Chinese American food menu. Snack on wagyu beef-stuffed dumplings, salt and pepper calamari and General Tso chicken while sipping on seasonally shifting cocktails scented with five spice, shiitake mushrooms, curry, and genmaicha.
12. Dame Concordia
After years of bouncing around town as a pop-up, Luna Contreras’ Guadalajara street food and casual fonda-style restaurant finally has a permanent and familiar home. Early this year, Chelo officially took over Dame, the shared Northeast Killingsworth restaurant space, which has hosted a slew of pop-up residencies (including Chelo), between the main corner space and its next door Lil’ Dame kitchen almost every day of the week. Now, on Thursdays-Sundays, find many of Contreras’ signature dishes like mushroom gorditas, stuffed with kale, epazote, and Gruyere, and the tlayuda, currently topped with roasted carrots, charred chicories, and winter squash. Close out dinner with another signature, the ultra popular tres leches cake, scented with almonds and dolloped with matcha cream.
13. Estes Ristorante Mississippi
Dame’s former anchor restaurant Estes is now taking up residence in Mississippi’s Broder Nord. Four evenings a week, chef Patrick McKee will be serving his Italian-inspired menu after the popular Scandinavian brunch spot shutters for the day, trading Swedish hash and aebleskivers for fresh pastas stuffed with butternut squash and porchetta paired with polenta and braised kale. The short but sweet menu changes frequently, swapping out seasonal veggies and pasta sets as winter continues to wane. For those that want to bring a bite of Estes home, neighborhood favorite Bella’s Italian Bakery in Southeast Portland stocks fresh pastas and sauces from the Estes team in the grab-and-go fridge.
14. Fair Weather Clinton
This pandemic-era coffee shop and bakery has returned with a full brunch and lunch menu five days a week. Taking over its sister restaurant Jacqueline’s former corner space on Clinton, Fair Weather’s menu will look somewhat familiar to fans of the previous oyster bar. Here, find pastries and smaller morning bites like yeasted waffles with hazelnut praline butter, an egg and pork belly slider on a milk bread English muffin, and cured Chinook salmon. Larger plates also channel the previous seafood scene, with dishes like shrimp & grits with Calabrian chiles and chilled Dungeness crab with avocado on toast. There’s also Dear Francis coffee, wines-by-the-glass, and cocktails behind the bar.
Find more info here.
15. Tastebud Pizza Multnomah Village
Portland’s long-beloved wood-fired pizza restaurant recently reopened its doors after five years of takeout only. Though pies and Sunday you-bake bagels were available from the cozy counter, we’re glad to be able to sit back in the restaurant again. Like many of the best pizzas that rise to glory across Portland, Tastebud’s arrive decked out in seasonal fashion, topped with fiddlehead ferns with shiitake bechamel and oyster mushrooms, roasted asparagus and baby bok choi, or sausage and broccoli raab. Salads, too, highlight the best of the market with one of the city’s OG kale Caesars and the simple-but-lovely spring greens with hazelnuts in a mint vinaigrette.
Find more info here.
16. Bamboo Sushi NW 23rd Multiple locations
This fully sustainable sushi restaurant-turned-West Coast chainlet has been a go-to spot for years. Find TikTok-inspired crispy rice rolls, here topped with spicy salmon, albacore, and tuna, or smashed avocado. Daily changing hand roll specials, poke, nigiri, sashimi, and signature rolls make up the rest, with abundant vegan options to boot. The green machine is one, filled out with tempura-fried green beans, and can be boosted with albacore, salmon, and crab for those craving fish. Landlubbers, too, will be happy here, with a short menu of sea-free options, including a wagyu burger and a grilled truffle teriyaki rib eye.
17. No Saint Vernon
No Saint’s excellent bread program and creative seasonal vegetable dishes earn this Northeast Portland restaurant a spot in the strong class of pizza and pizza-adjacent restaurants that have become pillars of the area’s culinary scene. Even in the winter months when seasonal options are limited, the menu continues to shine, and especially now with spring on the horizon. Salads are a must, like mache with preserved citrus and green daikon in a tahini vinaigrette. Elsewhere, housemade pastas are worth the table space and of course, the main event: Wonderfully chewy and creative pies that support a cast of toppings like nowhere else in town (cabbage alla gricia? Sign us up). These cycle through frequently and we’re consistently impressed.
18. Tina's Dundee
This longstanding wine country outpost was one of the area’s few fine dining destinations when it opened in 1991. It maintains its stance as a regional culinary leader with its short but sweet menu of seasonal dishes using local produce and wild-caught proteins, plus classic desserts and timeless cocktails. Wine country menus don’t get more classic than this, with dishes like fried Willapa Bay oysters with sorrel aioli, rack of lamb with mint-hazelnut-Dijon persillade, and a souffle Provencal studded with fresh herbs and Cypress Grove goat cheese. Desserts include a vanilla bean crème brûlée and a chocolate Victoire, while cocktails harken back to a different generation with Spanish coffees, grasshoppers, and Sambuca affogatos.
19. Moon Pocha Kerns
Taking over the former Sudra space on Northeast 28th Avenue’s restaurant row, Moon Pocha is the latest from local restaurateur Tommy Shin (you may be familiar with his ramen and sushi spots Samurai Blue, Akasaru, and Nama Ramen scattered across Northeast Portland). At this Korean late-night spot, expect an assortment of small plates, including classic dishes like tteokbokki, scallion pancakes, and corn cheese alongside larger soups, stews, fried chicken, and more. Drinks are a critical part of pojangmacha, or pocha (Korean street food), and here arrive soju-rich, balanced with tonic or ginger ale, and sweetened with housemade fruit syrups. Other non-soju cocktails, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic options are also on offer.
Find more info here.
20. Matta Alberta

After setting his pop-up aside to open Mémoire Cà Phê, the long-awaited Vietnamese American brunch spot from Richard Le, Cà Phê’s Kimberly Dam, and Heyday’s Lisa Nguyen, chef Le is reviving his restaurant residency. Taking over the brunch spot three nights a week, the latest iteration of Matta will focus on foods Le loved to eat growing up, alongside fun new creations. “Lil’ bites” like shrimp toast on a Heyday bun and a steak salad tossed with apples and herbs in a fish sauce vinaigrette balance out “big bites” like dry-fried chicken with fish sauce caramel and salt and pepper pork ribs with serrano and daikon. A duo of desserts — the fried banana, strawberry basil jam “sundae scaries” is calling to us — and a short NA drink list fill out the rest of the menu.
