Guidebook for Portland

Mark
Guidebook for Portland

Food Scene

High-end Peruvian restaurant with adventurous chef and top-notch drinks (including the best Pisco Sour in the Northwest.) The consensus best restaurant around (in walking distance). Wise to make reservations, but you can often eat in the bar without.
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Andina
1314 NW Glisan St
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High-end Peruvian restaurant with adventurous chef and top-notch drinks (including the best Pisco Sour in the Northwest.) The consensus best restaurant around (in walking distance). Wise to make reservations, but you can often eat in the bar without.
This is where real Portlanders go for dessert and a drink after dinner or a movie somewhere else. Bustling with delicious decadent desserts. 2 blocks away.
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Papa Haydn
701 NW 23rd Ave
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This is where real Portlanders go for dessert and a drink after dinner or a movie somewhere else. Bustling with delicious decadent desserts. 2 blocks away.
Incredibly delicious food in an unpretentious setting, great value. Looks like a lunch spot but they have great full entrees. If Slow-roasted beef brisket or lamb shank drizzled with porcini sauce over polenta cooked perfectly by a gourmet chef for $12 sounds good to you, don't miss this place. Highly recommended. And everything else on the menu is cheaper. Open 11 am to 8pm Th-Sat, 6pm M-Wed
Gastro Mania Deli
1986 NW Pettygrove St
Incredibly delicious food in an unpretentious setting, great value. Looks like a lunch spot but they have great full entrees. If Slow-roasted beef brisket or lamb shank drizzled with porcini sauce over polenta cooked perfectly by a gourmet chef for $12 sounds good to you, don't miss this place. Highly recommended. And everything else on the menu is cheaper. Open 11 am to 8pm Th-Sat, 6pm M-Wed
I haven't been but a couple of guests did and they recommend it. Can't get much more convenient!
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Carina Lounge
410 NW 21st Ave
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I haven't been but a couple of guests did and they recommend it. Can't get much more convenient!
Fresh baked gourmet French pastries and breads, a block and a half away, and good espresso drinks. What more do you want?
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Ken's Artisan Bakery
338 NW 21st Ave
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Fresh baked gourmet French pastries and breads, a block and a half away, and good espresso drinks. What more do you want?

Drinks & Nightlife

A world-class comedy club; one of the hosts occasionally performs there.
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Helium Comedy Club
1510 SE 9th Ave
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A world-class comedy club; one of the hosts occasionally performs there.
A tiny (one room) bar nearby, often candle-lit.
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M Bar
417 NW 21st Ave
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A tiny (one room) bar nearby, often candle-lit.
Cozy basement bar with live music and an excellent free comedy show, late nights Friday and Saturday at 10:30pm. They have residencies by excellent musicians from time to time. Very chill scene.
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McMenamins Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave
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Cozy basement bar with live music and an excellent free comedy show, late nights Friday and Saturday at 10:30pm. They have residencies by excellent musicians from time to time. Very chill scene.
Classic Irish pub -- they serve Irish Soda Bread as a snack. Very close.
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Kells Brewery
210 NW 21st Ave
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Classic Irish pub -- they serve Irish Soda Bread as a snack. Very close.
Classic dive bar with the funky, pre-hipster atmosphere that made people love this town -- cheap drinks, relaxed furnishings, dimly lit, quality post-punk music and interesting, cool people.
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Low Brow Lounge
1036 NW Hoyt St
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Classic dive bar with the funky, pre-hipster atmosphere that made people love this town -- cheap drinks, relaxed furnishings, dimly lit, quality post-punk music and interesting, cool people.

Parks & Nature

Stunning view of the city and a world class rose test garden. If you like roses, this is the place for you (especially in June, when they're blooming and Portland -- the Rose City -- has its Rose Festival. Little kids will love a ride on the retro mini-train which takes you right to the zoo.
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Международный Розарий
400 SW Kingston Ave
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Stunning view of the city and a world class rose test garden. If you like roses, this is the place for you (especially in June, when they're blooming and Portland -- the Rose City -- has its Rose Festival. Little kids will love a ride on the retro mini-train which takes you right to the zoo.
This park covers essentially the entire hill above our house for 20 MILES, from the zoo all the way north. Wildwood Trail and Leif Erickson Drive (an abandoned road) offer long, unpaved running/hiking trails closed off to cars.
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Форест-Парк
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This park covers essentially the entire hill above our house for 20 MILES, from the zoo all the way north. Wildwood Trail and Leif Erickson Drive (an abandoned road) offer long, unpaved running/hiking trails closed off to cars.
Beautiful manicured Japanese garden just up the hill. Recently renovated.
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Японский сад в Портленде
611 SW Kingston Ave
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Beautiful manicured Japanese garden just up the hill. Recently renovated.
Spectacular waterfall in the spectacular Columbia Gorge, where one of earth's largest rivers cuts through the Cascade Mountains. About 30 miles from Portland. If you don't have a car, there is a public bus for $5 round trip that runs on weekends in the summer, from the Gateway Transfer Station (on the Max Red Line, you went through it on the way in from the airport). http://columbiagorgeexpress.com/
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Multnomah Falls station
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Spectacular waterfall in the spectacular Columbia Gorge, where one of earth's largest rivers cuts through the Cascade Mountains. About 30 miles from Portland. If you don't have a car, there is a public bus for $5 round trip that runs on weekends in the summer, from the Gateway Transfer Station (on the Max Red Line, you went through it on the way in from the airport). http://columbiagorgeexpress.com/

Arts & Culture

Excellent museum, which you can get to easily on the trolley or just walk if the weather is good.
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Портлендский художественный музей
1219 SW Park Ave
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Excellent museum, which you can get to easily on the trolley or just walk if the weather is good.
One of Portland's two biggest theatres, within walking distance (right by the MAX train stop). Consistently high-quality work, Equity theater, fully funded.
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Artists Repertory Theatre
1515 NW 11th Ave
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One of Portland's two biggest theatres, within walking distance (right by the MAX train stop). Consistently high-quality work, Equity theater, fully funded.
Portland's biggest and best-funded theatre, an Equity stage that always has something impressive and big to present. Just a few blocks down the street. https://www.pcs.org/
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Музей Chattanooga African-American Museum
128 NW 11th Ave
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Portland's biggest and best-funded theatre, an Equity stage that always has something impressive and big to present. Just a few blocks down the street. https://www.pcs.org/

Shopping

23rd Avenue is a street full of fancy shops in old converted houses, maybe something like a combination of Union Street and Chestnut Street in San Francisco. Some good restaurants mixed in too, from the hyper-trendy ice cream shop Salt and Straw to Kornblatt's Deli and Boxer Ramen. Literally two blocks away from here.
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Northwest 23rd Avenue
Northwest 23rd Avenue
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23rd Avenue is a street full of fancy shops in old converted houses, maybe something like a combination of Union Street and Chestnut Street in San Francisco. Some good restaurants mixed in too, from the hyper-trendy ice cream shop Salt and Straw to Kornblatt's Deli and Boxer Ramen. Literally two blocks away from here.

Getting Around

The station I want to list is actually at NW 21st and Glisan, one block from here, but BikeTown stations are all over town. Check out a bike here, check it in anywhere else so you don't have to worry about it getting stolen. They don't have helmets but we have two you can borrow.
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BIKETOWN
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The station I want to list is actually at NW 21st and Glisan, one block from here, but BikeTown stations are all over town. Check out a bike here, check it in anywhere else so you don't have to worry about it getting stolen. They don't have helmets but we have two you can borrow.
Nearest car rental place. Good value, too.
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car
2740 NE Sandy Blvd
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Nearest car rental place. Good value, too.
The nearest light rail stop, on the Red Line. Takes you to the airport via downtown or the Zoo or out to Intel in Hillsboro, your choice. It's a great way to go to the airport, especially in snow or ice, only $2.50. Stops at midnight though.
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Providence Park MAX Station
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The nearest light rail stop, on the Red Line. Takes you to the airport via downtown or the Zoo or out to Intel in Hillsboro, your choice. It's a great way to go to the airport, especially in snow or ice, only $2.50. Stops at midnight though.

Entertainment & Activities

Portland's best art house movie theater, and it's literally right across the street from here.
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Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave
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Portland's best art house movie theater, and it's literally right across the street from here.
Home of the Portland Timbers soccer team and some other sporting events.
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Провиденс Парк
1844 SW Morrison St
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Home of the Portland Timbers soccer team and some other sporting events.