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A visit to Belmont Collective in Southeast Portland is a good starting point for learning about the city’s cannabis culture.

Belmont

Visit this Southeast Portland street for great local flavor, surprising history and unique things to do.

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A visit to Belmont Collective in Southeast Portland is a good starting point for learning about the city’s cannabis culture.

Located a few blocks north of Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, Belmont Street stretches from the Eastbank Esplanade to Mount Tabor Park, and boasts its own mix of vintage and indie shops, coffee shops, bars and food carts. Read on for our favorite things to do and see in Belmont.

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Discover the neighborhood's top food, drink and things to see and do.

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Belmont Dining

Inside Belmont's many bars and restaurants, you'll find dishes, bowls, glasses and mugs filled to the brim with care and craft.

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Belmont Activities

Just a few blocks north of Hawthorne, bustling Southeast Belmont Street is a hub for Portlanders and visitors alike with plenty of activities for fun at any age.

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Belmont Shopping

Selling everything from eco-friendly hats to vintage cowboy boots, Belmont's shops can help pull together a made-in-Portland look.

Where to Eat and Drink on Belmont

Never Coffee pours delightful coffee drinks that highlight all of the flavors, like their Holy Grail with Bee Local honey and Jacobsen sea salt and tellicherry pepper. With their unique roasts and innovative drinks, makes this coffee shop a must-try for any adventurous lover of coffee. Just a few steps from the door is The Bite on Belmont, a food court of carts, with favorites like Hindsight Beer Cart serving pints (and wine, too), and Dinger’s Deli a vegan sandwich cart.

Belmont's Best Eateries

Here are a few of our favorite spots on this Southeast Portland street.

  • Farm Spirit

    Farm Spirit features locally sourced, plant-based modernist cuisine, served over multiple courses at a 14-seat chef’s counter. Wine and non-alcoholic beverage pairings are available, as well as gluten-free options with advance notice.

  • Paradox Cafe

    This vegetarian mainstay has been plating plant-based creations in Portland for over 30 years, with the option to “veganize” or “gluten free” any orde. Open for breakfast and lunch, with a busy brunch on the weekends. Try their beloved tempeh rueben!

  • Hoda’s Middle Eastern Cuisine

    This restaurant offers true Middle Eastern hospitality, serving recipes developed and prepared by chef Hoda Khouri herself, using only the freshest locally sourced ingredients.

  • Slappy Cakes

    Slappy Cakes is a full-service breakfast restaurant, with griddles built into each table on which you can craft your own pancakes. Everything is made from scratch and includes organic seasonal produce fresh from the restaurant’s backyard garden.

  • Coquine

    Coquine is a full-service neighborhood restaurant located at the top of Southeast Portland’s Mount Tabor. Chef Katy Millard prepares thoughtful, seasonal food, and is committed to sustainable practices and sourcing from local farms.

Fermenter is pro-probiotic. With fermented beverages like kombucha, kefir, and ginger beer, those are just the first sip at this inspiring plant-based restaurant, that has miso-based sauces, sides of sauerkraut or kimchi, and their infamous plant-based burger. With a focus on small batch and locally grown foods, this menu is comforting and adventurous. For a quick, healthy meal good for the whole family, try Laughing Planet. At the Belmont Street location, similar to their restaurants scattered around town, find toy dinosaurs on every table and have some fun while you eat.

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Belmont Attractions

These five Belmont landmarks are all local favorites.

  • Movie Madness

    Devoted to rare and obscure films, this video rental store is also a museum, displaying original costumes and props from classics like The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music.

  • Historic Belmont Firehouse

    At the Historic Belmont Firehouse’s Belmont Learning Center, visitors can slide down a fire pole, sit in a firetruck cab and explore over a century of firefighting history.

  • Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery

    With its first burial occurring in 1846, Lone Fir is the oldest cemetery in Portland and the final resting place of many of the city’s earliest settlers. Reconnect with the past through a quiet stroll or a guided tour.

  • Avalon Theatre & Wunderland

    At this family-owned business, two small screens show second-run movies, while the on-site video arcade offers hours of entertainment for mere nickels.

  • Horse Brass Pub

    Since 1976, this traditional English-style pub has served proper 20-ounce imperial pints (of more than 50 local, national and international beers) and traditional English and American pub grub.

What to Do on Belmont

In what was once the center of the City of East Portland, Belmont holds a lot of history, from Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery where many first settlers were laid to rest, to the Historic Belmont Firehouse that currently serves as a museum. Colonel Summers Park on Southeast Belmont and 20th Street, was created in 1921. Today is has a community garden, softball field, volleyball and tennis court, a splash pad and a restored brick picnic pavilion. For a bigger, more scenic park walk a few blocks north to Laurelhurst Park, with ponds and paved, tree-lined trails.

Mount Tabor Park

Mt. Tabor Park, a century-old public space known for its open-air reservoirs, forested hiking trails, sunset picnics, epic city views, its annual Adult Soapbox Derby, and, yes, its volcanic cinder cone.

Walk On

Belmont storefronts are filled with vintage stores, used books, and trinkets. Still straddling the worlds of old and new, Belmont is home to many shops that have been in the community for decades. Serving the pagan community for many moons, Moonshadow is a spiritual shop for books, crystals, and deepening your practice in the ancient arts. In true Portland fashion, you can also find small, independent bookstores filling their shelves with local authors and zines and books that are off-the-beaten-path. Belmont is no exception; try Belmont Books.

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