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Portland's 50 best new restaurants

Update: Here are Portland's 10 best new restaurants of 2017.

Next week, The Oregonian/Oregonlive.com will release its 2017 guide to Portland's best restaurants, featuring many old favorites and a new addition: Our breakdown of the city's top 10 new restaurants. Below, in alphabetical order, find the city's 50 most notable new restaurant openings of the past year and change since our last new restaurant survey -- the long list we used to reach our favorite 10.

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Afuri

We only hoped for ramen. Instead, Afuri built Portland's most ambitious izakaya, with housemade tofu, "winged" gyoza and fish and meat cooked around a vertical coal stack called an irori. 923 S.E. Seventh Ave.

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Alto Bajo

Portland gets another Modern Mexican player via this Hi-Lo Hotel restaurant from chef Chip Barnes (Moto, Chicago) in consulation with Oaxacan-American chef Iliana de la Vega (El Naranjo, Austin). 300 S.W. Stark St.

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Aviv

A vegan Israeli restaurant inside a former vegan bar which replaced a former vegan trattoria, just across the street from a new vegan pizzeria and ice cream parlor. More importantly, Aviv comes from Tal Caspi, the man behind old food cart favorite Gonzo. 1125 S.E. Division St.

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Bar Casa Vale

The selection of Spanish hams at Nate Tilden's new bar rivals any in town, and the Barcelona-style gin and tonics and Pimm's cups are wonders to behold: large bowls filled with ice and a veritable bouquet of fruit and spices. 215 S.E. Ninth Ave.

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Big's Chicken

Big's Chicken, which began as a series of "Five-Napkin Chicken" events in Laurelhurst Market's parking lot, returned to its original home after a fire at its brick-and-mortar home. Too bad. Before the blaze, they were smoking up the sandwich of the summer. 3155 E. Burnside St.

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Bless Your Heart

Just three years ago, our guide to Portland's 10 best burgers featured three of John Gorham's creations, one each at Toro Bravo, Tasty n Sons and Tasty n Alder. Earlier this year, he opened his first burger-specific restaurant, and it's glorious. 126 S.W. Second Ave.

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Buckman Public House

The folks behind Lake Oswego's Tucci went big on this restaurant in the former Washington High School, now home to Revolution Hall, with hundreds of seats between the airy dining room and large patio. 1310 S.E. Stark St.

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Can Font

This second location of a Michelin-recognized (but not starred) restaurant from the outskirts of Barcelona opened a second location in an unlikely location: The Pearl District. The paella, which takes 45 minutes to prepare, is traditional and good. 1015 N.W. Northrup St.

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Chalino

Johnny Leach is a serious talent, skilled enough to run celebrity chef David Chang’s upper midscale Ma Peche in Manhattan, and to present this festive halibut ceviche polka dotted with bitter orange, watermelon radish and strips of shiso. 25 N. Fremont St.



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The Crown



You haven't seen cheese until you've seen Vitaly Paley turning the corner with a yard-long rectangle of pizza perched on a wooden peel, giant grin on his face. The Crown is the James Beard Award-winning chef's latest addition to Southwest Broadway , and his first pizzeria. 410 S.E. Broadway

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Dame



Dame took over the Cocotte space near Beast last September, bringing a food-smart restaurant and natural wine bar in the style of New York’s Contra or Wildair to Northeast Portland. Some of the faces have changed , but there’s still lots to love, including the inky blue wallpaper, the menu of fish and fishy snacks and, especially, the wine list. 2930 N.E. Killingsworth St.

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Danwei Canting

Danwei Canting, a best-of-Beijing restaurant housed in a concrete space decorated with a Portland-meets-China mural, is an homage to the foods co-owner James Kyle ate and loved during more than a decade living and guiding gastronomic tours in China's capital city. 803 S.E. Stark St.

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Deadshot

At the Monday-only Deadshot, Adam Robinson (Expatriate) presents unusual cocktails alongside creative bar snacks from Holdfast Dining chefs Will Preisch and Joel Stocks, including nachos built on fried chicken skins and sticky-sweet deep-fried prawn heads with spicy mayo. 537 S.E. Ash St. #102

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Duck House

Not every Chinese dish on Duck House's expansive menu is a winner, but if you're downtown and looking to eat dumplings -- and we mean a lot of dumplings -- Duck House is the place. 1968 S.W. 5th Ave.

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Farmhouse Kitchen

Farmhouse Kitchen, a Portland outpost of a Michelin-recognized Thai restaurant from San Francisco, serves "current, fresh and thoughtfully created" dishes including colorful salads and Panang Neua, a braised, bone-in short rib drizzled with panang curry. 3354 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.

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Figlia

Figlia, Renata's lunchtime spin-off inside Rejuvenation Hardware, serves outstanding soups, salads and the Grab & Go, a thin, Parisian-style baguette lined with prosciutto, Ancient Heritage Dairy cheese and Calabrian chile butter. 1100 S.E. Grand Ave.

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Grand Army Tavern

Grand Army Tavern, a Northeast Portland bar from a pair of New York City ex-pats, serves approachable cocktails, vegan snacks and a DIY pork slider plate from George Kaden, the former right-hand-man to celebrity chef Marco Canora. 901 N.E. Oneonta Ave.

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Guero

For years, Megan Sanchez and Alec Morrison made great tortas from a Silver Streak trailer parked just south on 28th Avenue. At Güero's new home, they have room to experiment, with a reverse-engineered hamburguesa, a carnitas sandwich drenched in chile de arbol salsa and more. 200 N.E. 28th Ave.

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Gumba

Gumba, our 2017 Cart of the Year, deserves a place on this list for its fresh-made pappardelle tossed in braised short rib sugo and its "pizza fritta," an enormous, Neapolitan-style street elephant ear that caused us to gain about five pounds this summer. Recently relocated to Northeast Alberta Street and 23rd Avenue.

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Headwaters

Headwaters, Vitaly Paley's new seafood palace inside the former Heathman Restaurant, concerns itself with the bounty of the sea, including raw oysters, smoked and cured fish and more. 410 S.W. Broadway

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Heart Pizza

Check pizza off Micah Camden's quickly dwindling comfort food to-do list. In February, the prolific restaurateur behind Boxer Ramen and Blue Star Donuts opened the first location of Heart Pizza, a wood-fired, takeout-focused pizzeria, in downtown Portland. A second quickly followed. 417 S.W. 13th St. and 672 S.W. Gaines St.

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Issan nights at PaaDee

This Monday-Tuesday "pop-up" at PaaDee has been the hottest seat in town this summer, with whole fried fish, head-on prawns and an array of fiery Northeastern Thai-style laab. The menu was inspired by dishes the restaurant's staff were already cooking for themselves. 6 S.E. 28th Ave.

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Jackrabbit

San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino is known for his snout-to-tail cooking, and that theme continues at Jackrabbit, a new restaurant inside the Hilton's recently rebranded Duniway Hotel. 830 N.W. Sixth Ave.

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Jacqueline

At Jacqueline, owner Derek Hanson and his team balance a cast of crudos, shellfish, fish and seafood stews with some role-playing seasonal veggies. If you've been, you've probably eaten some fresh Northwest oysters, which are just $1 during the 5 to 7 p.m. happy hour. 2039 S.E. Clinton St.

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Kim Jong Smokehouse

Kim Jong Smokehouse features a bimbimbap base from food cart All Star Han Ly Hwang alongside meats from former "Top Chef" contestant B.J. Smith. The vegetarian version is plenty good, but if you're in a meaty mood, try the pan-seared salmon, or fatty beef rib. 126 S.W. 2nd Ave. and 413 N.W. 21st Ave.

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La Lena

La Leña, a new Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken spot from longtime Navarre chef Adam Warren and wife Angeline Perla, serves a great version of the beef heart skewers called anticuchos, pisco sours and smoky chicken. 1864 S.E Hawthorne Blvd.

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No Bones Beach Club

No Bones Beach Club is a new vegan Tiki bar on North Mississippi Avenue with the right mix of tropical drinks, island decor, and meat-free versions of Polynesian and Mexican fare. 3928 N. Mississippi Ave.

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Nomad.PDX

After honing his skills at Las Vegas' Joel Robuchon and Portland's Castagna, chef Ryan Fox turned his Nomad.PDX pop-up into a lavish brick-and-mortar with a high-tech kitchen and separate menus for its chef's counter, dining room and hidden Ash Bar. 575 N.E. 24th St.

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Opal and Omerta

An opulent cocktail bar out front, a hidden white-tablecloth Italian restaurant run by a Mario Batali protégé in the back, all part of a massive rebrand of the former Westin Hotel, now know as Dossier. 614 SW Park Ave

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OP Wurst

In hindsight, it's amazing this didn't happen sooner. Take Portland's signature sausage maker, add an eclectic beer list, corn hole for the summer and cozy fire pits for the summer, and you've got a winner. There are three locations, but you want to go to the Southeast Division Street flagship. 3384 S.E. Division St.

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Pearl Tavern

Late last year, former Oregon Ducks quarterback Joey Harrington partneredwith ChefStable restaurateur Kurt Huffman and bartender Ryan Magarian to open this gently sports-focused Pearl District restaurant. Former Bluehour chef Thomas Boyce to run the kitchen. 231 N.W. 11th Ave.

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Poke Mon

Poke Mon, chef Colin Yoshimoto's white-tiled poke bar, might be the best place to get creative takes on Hawaii's signature raw fish salad in Portland. And that's saying something. 1485 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.

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Pok Pok NW

From the lack of chatter, you'd never guess Pok Pok just opened its second full restaurant in Portland, this one in the former Bent Brick space, adding a handful of drinking snacks and cocktails to the old menu. And yes, they take reservations. 1639 N.W. Marshall St.

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Portland Food Hall

This charming food hall might not have the critical mass of Pine Street Market, but it did bring us a standalone location for one of Portland's best fried-chicken sandwiches, Boke Dokie, plus healthful bowls, smoothies and ramen. 827 S.W. 2nd Ave.

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Proud Mary

This Australian import is looking to turn Portland's cafe and brunch culture on its head, one $20 cup of coffee at a time. 2012 N.E. Alberta St.

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Q Restaurant



Q Restaurant , the transplanted home for the staff of Portland's beloved VQ, knows exactly what it: a power lunch destination for good soups, burgers and salads and a refined, relaxed dinner option for pretty plates of fish, steak or pasta. 828 S.W. Second Ave.

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Quaintrelle

Peak summer vegetables are on display at Quaintrelle, a slim North Mississippi Avenue bistro with a kitchen helped by Ava Gene's alum Bill Wallender. 3936 N. Mississippi Ave.

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Rally Pizza

After 10 years, Ken's Artisan Pizza chef Alan Maniscalco left Portland's flagship wood-fired pizzeria to open a place of his own on the other side of the Columbia River. Ddesserts, from former Ken's pastry chef Shan Wickham, are worth saving room for, especially the boozy hand-spun shakes. 8070 E. Mill Plain Blvd.

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Ray

Earlier this year, former "Top Chef Masters" contestant Jenn Louis sold Sunshine Tavern and turned North Portland's longtime Lincoln restaurant into the Israeli-focused Ray. 3808 N. Williams Ave.

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Revelry

Revelry comes from star Seattle chefs Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi and brings a Korean fusion menu of Korean-inspired noodles, rice bowls, savory pancakes and late-night hours to a space adjacent to outdoors store Evo. 210 S.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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Rue

Rue, a modern French-inspired bistro, serves a creative, carefully constructed menu heavy on vegetable dishes. The restaurant recently brought on former Renata cook Brandon Cunningham to be its new chef de cuisine. 1005 S.E. Ankeny St.

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Short Round

Short Round is a new Southeast Portland bar focused on Vietnamese and Korean drinking food, heavy on the fried snacks, from the owners of Northwest Portland's Fish Sauce restaurant. 3962 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

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SouthFork

After closing his short-lived Pine Street Market kiosk Commonlaw, former Paley's Place chef Patrick McKee signed on for SouthFork, a southern fusion restaurant and live jazz venue in the former Smallwares space. 4605 N.E. Fremont St.

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Spitz

In March, Spitz Mediterranean Street Food, a Los Angeles-based chain centered on Turkish spit-roasted meats, opened its first Portland location in the space adjacent to the Old Gold once home to Mextiza. The döner kebab and street cart fries are surprisingly bomb. 2103 N. Killingsworth St.

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Stacked

Following in the footsteps of Bunk's Tommy Habetz and Lardo's Rick Gencarelli, Stacked Sandwich Shop owner Gabriel Pascuzzi is the latest highly trained chef to turn his attention to the simple science of meat, cheese and bread. The top two or three sandwiches here can already go toe-to-toe with Portland's best. 1643 S.E. Third Ave.

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Tiffin Asha

Tiffin Asha, which started life as a South Indian food cart, recently moved into a brick-and-mortar restaurant across from Hat Yai and Podnah's Pit. The crowds appear to have fallen for the menu, which adds kebabs and appam to the cart's delicious dosa. 1670 N.E. Killingsworth St.

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Tusk

Stop thinking of Tusk as a Middle Eastern restaurant. Sure, there's hummus, flatbread and a pair of cooks (including chef Sam Smith) who spent time at Philadelphia's Zahav. But this second restaurant from the Ava Gene's team is far more Portland than Jerusalem. 2448 E. Burnside St.

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Urdaneta

Don't miss the Basque-focused Urdaneta's "pintxo hour," when you might find open-faced sandwiches topped with grilled morcilla (blood sausage), croquetas de jamon or a kalimotxo (red wine and cola) for $5 each. 3033 N.E. Alberta St.

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Wayfinder

Wayfinder Beer comes from Charlie Devereux, the co-founder of Double Mountain Brewery; and Matt Jacobson, the force behind late-night pizza sensation Sizzle Pie; and Rodney Muirhead, the barbecue maven at Northeast Portland's Podnah's Pit, who crafted the wood-fired menu. 304 S.E Second Ave.

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XLB

XLB has balanced out the salt in its seafood noodles and hoisin duck bao, and dialed in the texture on its namesake soup dumplings, with super-thin, stretchy skins trapping rich broth made from pork aspic that melts as the dumplings steam. 4090 N. Williams Ave.



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