This listing was originally compiled in 2009. It was a collaborative, vegan reality & internet effort. It has been updated for the 2010 Try Vegan PDX Guidebook, coming later this summer.
The PDX Vegan Hundred: 100 Great Foodz in Portland, OR
Some of the best and most unusual vegan options Portland has to offer, with a few peculiarities, for peculiarities’ sake.
- Fries with spicy tofu sauce at Dots
- $1.25 Corndog from Hungry Tiger Too (Wednesday special)
- McMinnville Cream donut from Voodoo Doughnuts
- Tiramisu from Portobello
- Vegan Soyrizo Burrito from Los Gorditos
- Professor Nanotear Ham and Cheeze sandwich from Tube
- Milkshake from Sip
- Gnocchi from Portobello
- Boston Cream Pie donut from Sweetpea Baking Co. (Saturdays only)
- Soft serve from Blossoming Lotus
- Local cherry tomatoes from a farmers market
- Sesame Tofu from Bay Leaf
- Jerked chickun from Assase Ital
- A Big Big Lunch Special from an Indian chaat house
- Soy latte made with Stumptown espresso
- A crappy tofu scramble
- Cornmeal pizza from Dovi Vive.
- Weeping Tiger sandwich from Bye & Bye
- Bye & Bye or Floor Punch from Bye & Bye
- A Bowl meal from a cart
- Vegan nutella from Freddy Guy’s hazelnuts
- Soy curls in bulk
- 40 cent Tofuffalo at Hungry Tiger Too (Thursdays)
- the weekday vegan pancakes from Laurelthirst
- Maple vegan sausage waffle from Flavourspot
- Drunken noodles with pepper steak from Thai Food Cafe
- Macnocheeto from Homegrown Smoker
- Veggie platter from an Ethiopian restaurant
- Blackberries picked from a public place
- Baba Ganouj from Ya Hala
- Coconut Smashed Yams from Papa G’s
- Vegan slice from Bella Faccia
- a Whiffies fried pie after midnight
- Chili dog from Zach’s Shack
- Vegan poutine from Potato Champion!
- Missionary Chocolate Truffle
- Apron Activists 4-Course Dinner
- Hot Wok at New Seasons
- Che Guevara Burrito from Laughing Planet
- Pad Thai from Pad Thai Kitchen
- Random vegan dessert from a stand at Last Thursday on Alberta
- The Giant Pancake at Hungry Tiger Too
- TLP from Red & Black Cafe
- Cornmeal tempeh plate from Proper Eats
- Maple Walnut Scone from Back to Eden
- Vegan Mezza platter from a Lebanese restaurant
- Crispy eggplant from Fujin
- Lemongrass Tofu Sticks from Van Hanh
- Tofu Salad Bun at Pho PDX
- Cocktail made with local liquor
- Biscuits and Gravy from Paradox or Vita
- Coconut fried oreos from Homegrown Smoker
- Field Roast sausage
- Secret Aardvark Hot Sauce
- Toddbot’s Triangles
- Local microbrew
- Hot Lips soda
- Herb Crusted Tofu with Mushroom Marsala from The Farm Cafe
- Picnic in Laurelhurst Park
- Burrito eaten in Pioneer Square from Shelley’s Honkin Huge Burritos
- Eggplant tibs from Bete Lukas
- Tator tots before noon or after midnight
- Lone Ranger from Chaos Cafe
- Hand-crafted mocktail at Portobello
- Tofu at a BBQ place
- Mint Fava Falafel at Nightlight Lounge
- An unexciting hummus plate at a bar.
- Koi Fusion spicy tofu tacos
- Tofurkey dog with grilled onions from the Veggi Dog Stand
- Sesame chicken from a vegetarian chinese restaurant
- Bagel with scallion cream cheese from Sweetpea Baking Co.
- Vegan savoury crepe
- Club Vegan at Backspace
- Ice cream sundae from Back to Eden
- Raw fudge from Blossoming Lotus
- Tempeh reuben
- Pause vegan burger
- something baked with local marionberries
- Sunday Brunch at Sweetpea Baking Co.
- Dave’s Killer Bread
- Higher Taste Burritos
- Thai food that the server swears is vegan, but you taste fish sauce.
- Elephant ear from the Saturday Market
- Sticky bun from Dovetail Baking Co.
- Savoury pie from Nicholas
- Giant salad rolls from the Just Thai cart
- Vegan torta from Los Gorditos (cart or taqueria)
- Nutritional yeast on your popcorn at a movie theater
- Vegan grilled cheese from The Grilled Cheese Grill
- Vegan Nachos at El Nutri (2 carts)
- Something from the by-request vegetarian menu at Andina
- Vegan Steak and Cheese from D.C. Vegetarian
- Dragon Noodles at Red & Black Cafe
- Falafel from Wolf & Bears
- Vegan apple fritter from Voodoo Doughnuts
- Four-Cheese Lasgana from Blossoming Lotus
- Vegetarian Chinese lunch buffet
- Chicken Salad Sandwich at D.C. Vegetarian
- Cinnamon Roll from Dovetail Baking Co.
- Personal Pizza from a cart with a wood-fired stove
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#3: McMinnville Cream Donut from VooDoo
#6 Professor Nanotear from Tube
#8 Portobello’s Precious Gnocchi
#19 Bye & Bye
#22 Soy Curls
#33 Whiffies Fried Pies
#38 New Seasons Wok Bar
#42 Simon and the Giant Pancake at Hungry Tiger Too
#43 TLP from Red & Black
#86 Just Thai salad rolls of doom
#97 Green Wok Buffet
#99 Dovetail Cinnamon Roll – best in town, if I do say so myself
If you see something missing, or would like to counter any #s, please simply say so.
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I should have nominated either the vegan pho or the BBQ Tofu Bun at Pho Jasmine! Oh, I think Sweetpea’s brunch is on their twice (’cause their biscuits are so nice).
I did blog about this list in a special post on my blog about vegan food around the Oregon Convention Center (give up, go to food carts): http://pdxvegancookingclub.blogspot.com/2010/07/vegans-at-oscon.html
good catch, sherri! I remember you nominating the Fujin! replaced the 2nd brunch with another request, the new mocktails at Portobello.
Oh the McMinnville Cream! I have a serious unhealthy addiction to those.
Awesome list. I’ve tried about 30% of the food on it. I think I might print it out and use it as a checklist.
I had nachos at Proper Eats the other day that were to die for. The Live Nachos at Blossoming Lotus are fabulous as well.
I am going to Proper Eats later this week (for the first time in over a year, woops) and I will seek out these nachos…
All you can eat Vegan buffet, now that’s one I have yet to come across personally. I love it!
Great list. I love Portland!!!
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47 out of 100! I have a lot more eating to do.
http://glitzed.blogspot.com/2010/07/boy-oh-boy-ive-got-lot-of-eating-to-do.html
Wow, if I’d make a vegan 100 of my town I’d probably run out of ideas by 10.
I love that you said a boring hummus plate at a bar. I have had two in the last week! It was that or fries…
I wish the Black Sheep Bakery were on here. I like their food and they’re nice!
Man, I’ve had way way way too many of the things on this list and I don’t live anywhere near Portland.
The “Just Thai salad rolls of doom” look incredible. I will definitely be seeking that out the next time I go!
i’m soooo sad the Little Red Bike closed, their TLT&A was AMAZING.
I like the salad rolls at Huong’s Vietnamese, they are HUGE, two for $3. i call them “donkey rolls”… it wouldn’t be ladylike of my to elaborate as to why.
also, when you mentioned Tempeh Rueben, you forgot to specify “at Proper Eats”
only 21 for me, btw. then again, i don’t go out tons.
hey love the list, thanks! I plan to try them all. Note: local Microbrews are not always vegan; many use isinglass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass) to clarify their beer
looks like mine auto-something’d up there via wordpress, but who knows if it’ll stick. here’s my annotated list:
http://vegtasticvoyage.com/2010/07/26/portland-vegan-100/
pretty much if it says “sauce,” i’m not going near it. luckily, there was no sauce involved in the great oreo experiment.
Oh man, I want to try so much of this!
I had the tofu scramble @ Night Lights on SE Clinton and it was so good…fresh spinach, ota tofu, wild mushrooms and carmelized onion…so, so good!