From: therese@garnet.berkeley.edu ()
Newsgroups: rec.food.veg
Subject: Portland Veg and Veg-Friendly Restaurants
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:42:29 GMT
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Hi!  My trip to Portland was fun - and here's a compiled list of veggie and 
veg-friendly restaurants in Portland, Oregon.  I can personally recommend 
Old Wives' Tales (especially if you have kids, they have a playroom there), 
India House, and the McMenamin's pubs (especially the Ram's Head)!  Baba 
Roots had good veggie sushi.
 
MISCELLANEOUS
 
Al-Amir 223 SW Stark - 274-0010 - Lebanese - excellent food
Baba Roots - all vegan restaurant right off SE Hawthorne
Chin Yen - Chinese restaurant on 28th and NE Burnside
Cup and Saucer Cafe 3566 SE Hawthorne Blvd.  236-6001
The Daily Grind - 4026 SE Hawthorne 233-5521  It also has a natural
  food store and six blocks west of Hawthorne there are lots of "neat
  stores"
  Mixed reviews - one contributor says this place is boring but cheap,
  another says  it's wonderful and the food is "out of this world"
  Different strokes....
Food Front (grocery deli) - 2375 SW Thurman (Portland + 2.5 mi)
  222-5658
Hands On Cafe  - 8245 NW Barnes 297-1480 - Very good for lunch
Happy Bowl - 937 SW 5th, 223-0809 - not all veg., but some good    
  offerings - takeout 
Indigine - 3723 SE Division  238-1470 - veg-friendly
Jarra's Ethiopian.  1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd.  230-8990 Pyrocuisine; 
  HOT food!
Mr Moto.  Cheap Japanese box food.  NW 21st at (Davis?) west side
  street, small walk down, no phone.
Moloch/Heathman Bakery and Pub - 901 SW Salmon 227-5700 - 
  Excellent bread, pizza and more
Nature's Fresh Northwest - Best natural grocery, also deli. 4000 SW
  117th (Beaverton 1.0 mi) 646-3824
Old Wives Tale - 1300 E. Burnside 238-0470.  Run by a women's
  collective.  Great for families - has playroom for kids
Portland Adventist Medical Center.  They only accept cash (no
  plastic) and hours are limited, but food is pretty good. (location?)
Song of the Rose Cafe - pure vegi, lunch and dinner on weekends -
  pretty good.  1328 NW 23 (Portland + 1.5mi). 224-0863
Vinnie's -824 SW 1st, 222-9818 - Non-veg, but has a vegan chef and 
  veggie menu 
 
If you like bookstores at all, BE 100% SURE to go to Powell's City of
  Books at 1005 West Burnside downtown.
 
MEXICAN
 
Bullring NW. - Mild mexican.  1900 NW 27th 274-4096 (Portland +
  2.5 miles) and 2627 SE 82nd, 775-2855
Macheesmo Mouse.  Weird (some say good) Mexican.  Many locations.
  723 SW Salmon (Portland + 0.2mi) 228-3491
  3553 SE Hawthorne (Portland + 3mi) 232-6558
  811 NW 23 (Portland + 2mi) 274-0500
  10719 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway ( Beaverton + 2 mi, next to
    Target)
Santa Fe Taqueria - 831 NW 23rd  220-0406  (Portland + 2 miles)
Mayas Taqueria - 1000 SW Morrison (Portland + 0.4 miles)  226-
  1946
Casa-U-Betcha - 612 NW 21st 222-4833 and 1700 NE Broadway - 
  282-4554 - funky Mexican (over-priced, I thought - T.)
 
INDIAN
 
India House - 1038 SW Morrison - Indiand excellent lunch buffet -
  spicy
Kashmir - 1705 NE Couch  238-3934  North Indian & Pakistani
Plainfields Mayur - Spendy but Worth It.  Best Indian food in
  Portland.  852 NW 21st (Portland + 1mi)  223-5517
Swagat Indian Restaurant - 4325 SW 109th, Beaverton  626-3000
 
THAI AND VIETNAMESE
 
Tara Thai House - 4545 Watson 626-7258 (Beaverton + 0.2 miles)
Bangkok Kitchen  - 2534 SE Belmont  236-7349 -  Thai food, but has 
  veggie items
The Saigon Kitchen - 835 NE Broadway Vietnamese/Thai
Yen Ha -  8640 SW Canyon Rd.  Beaverton - Vietnamese
 
PUBS
 
McMenamin's Pubs - all over the place - Great beer and vege 
  burgers!  They have other vegetarian selections at times. 
Blue Moon Tavern, 432 NW 21st & Glisan, Portland (503)223-3184
Ram's Head, 2282 NW Hoyt & 23rd, Portland (503)221-0098
Mission Theatre and Pub, 1624 NW Glisan, Portland (503)223-4031
Edgefield Theatre and Pub, 2126 SW Halsey, Gresham (off 84)   
   (503)669-8610
Bridgeport BrewPub (beer/pizza), 1313 NW Marshall, Portland   
  (503)241-7179
Heathman Bakery & Pub (yum!), 901 SW Salmon, Portland       
  (503)227-5700
Portland Brewing Co., 1339 NW Flanders, Portland (503)222-7150
 
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Sandy:
  * Elusive Trout Pub, 39333 Proctor Blvd, Sandy  (503)668-7884
      On our way back to Portland from Mt. Hood, they are on the right
      hand side of the road in Sandy.  Good beer, big food for cheap.
      Great soups.