Downtown Restaurants, Southwest (SW) Portland

Live jazz. Black and white tiles. Crayon masterpieces. Brasserie Montmartre was a Portland classic. Until it closed in 2006 for building renovations and then...just kept not reopening. But new owners and three years later, it’s back in all its glory—gleaming...

It seems that every year, portions of the small but formidable Bunk empire slowly encroach into different parts of the city. First, there was the original Bunk Sandwiches (known for its famously long lines) on SE Morrison in 2009. Then there was Bunk Bar, which opened on...

Rick Wilson earned so many fans pedaling his single-origin, drip coffee to local farmers markets that he had to find a place to park Downtown (on the new transit mall) and serve it every day of the week. The one-time Zefiro chef also added Mediterranean “street...

Cheap, fast, and…healthy? No wonder Café Yumm developed a rabid following with college students—and, well, everyone—in Eugene. Now they have set up Downtown at PSU, but don’t think these addictive rice bowls are just for coeds. The key is...

Leave it to groundbreaking chef Chris Israel to bring Alpine cuisine to Portland. Israel redefined the local restaurant scene with Bruce Carey at Zefiro nearly 20 years ago, and followed that up with Saucebox in 1995. After a stint in New York as an Art Director at Vanity...

In September 2010, Joe Rapport, a classically trained chef, opened Joe's Burgers in Tigard. Within a year, a second Joe's (Joe's Burgers & Bar in SW Portland) took the place of Rapport's now-shuttered JoPa's. And now, there's a third Joe's...

There is more to Japanese cuisine than sushi and ramen—ever heard of curry rice? Also known as the eponymous kalé, the stew-like dish of meat and veggies simmered in sauce and served with rice is a hugely popular comfort food in Japan, and soon, in Portland as...