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Late-Night Dining
With spicy-tuna bowls and gravy-drenched poutine, Portland's late-night restaurants can keep up with the wildest evenings out.
John Patrick Pullen
Tuck Woodstock
Tuck Woodstock wrote and edited content for Travel Portland from 2014–2020. Read More
It wasn’t always like this. Well sure, Portland has long loved booze and had a wicked crush on gourmet cuisine. But it’s a relatively recent phenomenon that bars and restaurants have kept their kitchens open late, serving high-quality food into the night.
If you’re looking to steam your eyelids to sleep with a big bowl of beef broth, the pho at Luc Lac Vietnamese Kitchen keeps revelers rolling in the door until 4 a.m. on weekends. Located downtown, it’s a popular destination after the bars signal last call (2:30 a.m. in Oregon), and their sugarcane shrimp will give you sweet dreams, indeed.
Sometimes, the only thing you want to eat with your drink is a toothpick full of olives. The swanky, laid-back Driftwood Room will graciously oblige, and serve up sizzling forest mushrooms, Texas shrimp skewers and a slice of Gorgonzola cheesecake, for good measure.
Then again, sometimes greasy food is exactly what you want from a late-night restaurant. With locations on both the east and west sides of town, Sizzle Pie brings late-night pizza relief to the masses until 3 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. on weekends, with every kind of slice imaginable: cheesy, meaty, vegetarian and even vegan.
If your cravings call for French fries, Potato Champion is where Portland goes for its after-dark starch fix. Specializing in gravy-drenched, cheese-curd-topped poutine, the food cart neighbors other late-night favorites like Pyro Pizza, serving up an impressive variety of delicious food in the wee hours of the morning (they’re open until 3 a.m.). But if you just can’t wait, they open at 6 p.m. on weekdays and at noon on the weekends, for the early birds.
Eating After Dark
Portland Pizza Guide
Enjoy a slice in the night.
Craft Spirits
Well made cocktails are a big part of the late night scene.
Food Cart Pods
Some of Portland’s favorite pods such as Cartopia are open late.
In the mood for greasy Mexican goodness? Night owls in the know head to Robo Taco before the clock strikes midnight to order mountains of “supernachos” and platters of corn tortillas piled with fried Oregon oysters, tender lengua or spicy soy curl pastor.
If you’re looking for something a little more upscale from your late-night menu, admire the twinkling lights of the downtown Portland cityscape from atop the Nines Hotel as you munch on midnight snacks of maki rolls, guava mousse and spicy tuna bowls at futuristic Asian eatery Departure (open until 1 a.m. on weekends).
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