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Some restaurant closures just make sense.

, no one is too surprised when it packs up its $15 milkshakes and corporate graffiti and disappears just a few months later.

Others sting, like the food cart with one perfect dish that gets brushed aside for a new boutique hotel, or the decades-old family-style Mexican restaurant you first visited as a kid.

So with apologies to the dozens of other local restaurant closures large and small, here are the 25 Portland restaurant closures that hurt the most 2018:

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25. BUNK SANDWICHES MORRISON

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The Bunk empire lives on, but we can still mourn the loss of the original sandwich shop, now home to Pizza Jerk’s second location.

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24. BEAVERTON BAKERY

The Beaverton institution

after 93 years making cakes and more for weddings, bar mitzvahs, graduations and more throughout the Portland metro area.

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23. AMADEUS MANOR

This throwback Milwaukie restaurant in an old, four-story stone building was best known for its picturesque Willamette River views.

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22. BREWPUBS

First- and second-generation brewpubs including Portland Brewing, Lompoc Tavern and Alameda Brewhouse

. Could this mark the beginning of the end for one of Portland's favorite restaurant formats?

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21. HOUSE OF LOUIE

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The last remnant of Chinatown’s once-bustling dim sum scene

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20. RUE

, Southeast Ankeny Street’s French-ish Rue was a year or two ahead of the neo-bistro craze.

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19. PARK KITCHEN

This longtime restaurant at the edge of the Pearl District ceased dinner service this fall not long after a Multnomah County jury

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18. STANICH'S

This Northeast Fremont Street burger bar, founded in 1949 by George and Gladys Stanich, had a good run before

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17. LE PANTRY

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Adrienne Harkey and Adam Merlin’s refined food cart --

-- left this winter without so much as a goodbye note.

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16. DUB'S ST. JOHNS

William "Dub" Travis III took his fried chicken from a low-key window at the back of the Ranger Tavern to a surprisingly formal restaurant at the heart of St. Johns,

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15. PAZZO

Downtown’s one-time Italian hot spot will

of Vitaly Paley (Paley’s Place), Dave Machado (Tanner Creek Tavern), Ben Gonzales (Nuestra Cocina) and a half dozen other prominent Portland chefs.

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14. THE AMERICAN LOCAL

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This modern American restaurant on Southeast Division Street had a surprisingly vegetarian-friendly menu of global small plates.

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13. URBAN MASALA

Urban Masala, a homey Indian cafe known for its butter chicken, rogan josh, and Kashmiri lamb, was among our

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12. ROOST

Southeast Belmont Street's perennial underdog of a restaurant

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11. CHALINO

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This modern Mexican restaurant from chefs Johnny Leach and David Haddow never found an audience.

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10. CHINESE VILLAGE

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Not for the food, necessarily. The last thing I remember eating here were some crab puffs (pictured above) that

But this campy grandfather of Southeast Portland’s old-school American-Chinese food scene offered something else: A restaurant out of a Hollywood location scout’s dream, with blood-red walls, jade-green booths and golden dragons on the wall. Like House of Louie, Chinese Village’s closure marked a shift, in this case away from the old Chinese restaurants that once brightened up 82nd Avenue with their video lottery lounges and distinctive neon.

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9. ACCANTO

After nearly 10 years on Southeast Belmont Street, the stylish, neighborhood-friendly Italian restaurant

. Opened by Trish Eiting as a casual alternative to the revived fine-dining experience at Genoa next door, which it outlasted, the restaurant was home to a half dozen top Portland chefs through the years, including David Anderson, David Anderson, Sean Temple, Jake Martin, Chris Frazier and, most recently, former Le Pigeon and Little Bird Bistro chef Erik Van Kley.

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8. THE ORIGINAL TACO HOUSE

, one of Portland’s longest-running Mexican restaurants, took many Portlanders by surprise. On Jan. 1, customers arrived at the nearly 60-year-old restaurant’s two remaining locations -- one each on Northeast 82nd Avenue and Southeast Powell Boulevard -- to find a note from Jeff Waddle, grandson of the restaurant’s founder, announcing the end of the family-friendly chain’s nearly 60-year-run. At its height, The Original Taco House had five metro area restaurants.

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7. NONG’S KHAO MAN GAI CART

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As with the original Bunk, the sting of owner Nong Ponsookwattana closing her original Southwest Alder Street chicken-and-rice cart (to make way for a boutique hotel, naturally) was soothed a bit by the presence of two

. (A second cart with a deeper menu near Portland State University also vanished this year.) Still, seeing as food carts are one of the signature elements of Portland’s nationally celebrated food scene, and no cart was better known than Nong’s, the loss -- and the earlier closure of Nong’s cart near Portland State University -- feels like a blow.

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6. OLD SALT MARKETPLACE

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This ambitious project, with a restaurant, bar, deli, bakery, cafe, events space and seasonal farmer’s market, brought new life to the Concordia-Cully border when it opened in 2013.

most for its consistently excellent pork chop, its hearty brunch and its best-in-class meat counter, not to mention for providing an incubation space for the Appalachian pop-up Mae. Grain & Gristle, the first restaurant opened by chef Ben Meyer and Co., remains open on Northeast Prescott Street.

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5. THE WOODSMAN TAVERN

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Photo by Dave Killen/staff

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on Southeast Division Street, its gorgeous dining room filled with dark wood and a gallery's worth of framed paintings of Mount Hood from Stumptown Coffee founder Duane Sorenson's personal collection. After a few ups and downs,

, who was moonlighting as he waited for his new restaurant Bullard to open.

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4. CAFE CASTAGNA

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Yes,

, one of

(not to mention

). But we can still mourn Cafe Castagna, the ultimate neighborhood restaurant Monique Siu opened in 2001 as a casual sister to Castagna, the fine-dining spot next door. In hindsight, we probably took the burger, the butter lettuce salad and the mussels and fries at this Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard institution for granted.

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3. OVERLOOK RESTAURANT

Another casualty of 2018, North Portland institution

at the corner of North Maryland Avenue and Skidmore Street. And when Jim and Jane Vassalos finally turned the lights out at the Overlook, they took one of Portland’s last true diners with them, a place where neighbors gather for all-day breakfast and never have to wait long for someone to refill their coffee.

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2. BIWA

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This subterranean izakaya, which helped introduce Portland to good ramen and fried chicken

karaage

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. Once a trailblazer for Japanese drinking food in Portland, Biwa had become surrounded of late by solid Japanese drinking food and ramen options, including a couple of real-deal imports from Tokyo, including Afuri and Marukin. But all was not lost. Biwa co-owners Gabe Rosen and Kina Voelz continue to run the ramen-focused Noraneko, and Rosen and Biwa vet Kana Hinohara Hanson recently opened Giraffe, a small Japanese deli with baked goods from Beaverton’s great Oyatsupan inside Cargo, the close-in curio store on Southeast Yamhill Street.

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1. THE BIG EGG

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after nearly a decade serving some of Portland's best breakfast sandwiches and wraps, was a personal favorite dating back to its days as a bright yellow food cart parked at North Portland's Mississippi Station pod. Gail and Elizabeth Buchanan’s cozy brick-and-mortar space, which opened in the old Sugar Cube space in 2015, had a similar yellow hue and egg-themed Art Nouveau posters on the wall. Last year, The Big Egg tweaked its menu, dropping the lineup of breakfast sandwiches in favor of a new menu built around its best item, the classic breakfast wrap, a beautifully grilled flour tortilla filled with fluffy scrambled eggs, cremini mushrooms, green onions, cheese and a one-two punch of roasted salsa verde and a yogurt-lime sauce. The space is now home to Kargi Gogo, another cart-turned-restaurant, this one serving good Georgian cheesy bread and dumplings. But those wraps have been missed.

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

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We also say so long to Associated (taken by the ghost of Tennessee Red), Blackwell’s Grub Steak Grill, Clay’s Smokehouse (redux), Buckman Public House, Chopsticks III (how can be?), Holsteins Shakes and Buns (

), La Leña, Mandarin Cove, Nicoletta + Beppe’s, O’Connor’s, Portland Tavern (Joey Harrington’s first food-world L), Ray, RingSide Fish House and Smokehouse Tavern. And while it’s not a restaurant, don’t forget that 2018

for the century-old Boyd Coffee. If you’ve ever added creamer from a small plastic tub to a hot mug of diner coffee and thought to yourself, “Huh, that’s not that bad,” chances are you were drinking Boyd.

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Don't miss our earlier guides to Portland's 10 best new restaurants, our 2018 Restaurant of the Year and the city's 40 best restaurants, period.