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This page is under construction! I have a big ole list of well, lists, that I’m working on, including restaurants, bars, coffee, tea, shopping, and more. I’m going to ask my friends to pick their favorites because besides a few obvious places that you’ve already seen pop up within a few minutes of googling “VEGAN PORTLAND BEST”, everything is so subjective.
In the meantime, I’ll link to the following previously published lists:
- Portland’s Late Night Vegan-Friendly Eats 11/9/2010
- The Updated Portland Vegan 100 7/19/2010
- The Stumptown Vegans Bakery Showdown 6/16/2010
- The Stumptown Vegans: Portland’s Best Bowls 5/13/2010
- The Stumptown Vegans 25 Great Foods for $7 or Less 4/7/2010
- Get Sconed! Can’t Miss Food Carts pdf 7/2010
Know this: Dine at Portobello, hip up a couple carts, grab a VooDoo donut, some stellar coffee, consider some Ethiopian food and schedule in a mandatory visit to The Bye & Bye where you can hold a mason jar full of their signature drink or non-boozy Floor Punch in your hand as you contemplate their selections of vegan comfort food.
- at least one vegan bakery
- one VooDoo Doughtnuts (location wise!)
- two food carts – one for before, and after sundown. Might I suggest Homegrown Smoker, Native Bowl in Mississippi Marketplace, or the Taqueria Los Gorditos cart during the day, and making your way to Cartopia (Whiffies, Potato Champion!, Pyro Pizza, etc.) at SE 12th and Hawthorne come nightfall?
- Update 10/18/10: Add Kitchen Dances in the Good Food Here lot on SE Belmont to your must-go list! Just do it. Trust me.
I could go on, and on, and on, so I shall….once I haul over the rest of my notes!
Bakeries
As I write this, Portland has three, entirely vegan, bakery storefronts. Two are on the same damn street. It’s difficult to go wrong at any, and each location is quite convenient to other worthwhile (and vegan) wanderings.
- Back to Eden Bakery Boutique – Located on super vegan-friendly NE Alberta St., this small bakery and boutique offers hand crafted, from-the-heart treats made with creative, seasonal ingredients, such as gluten free cheesecakes, layer cakes and tarts – not to mention delicate and flaky vegan croissants.
- Sweetpea Baking Co. – Portland’s first and largest vegan bakery. It’s located at the corner of the vegan mini mall and offers an assortment of baked goods, including cakes by the slice and freshly yeasted donuts on Saturdays, made-to-order sandwiches, Stumptown Coffee, Townshend’s Teas, and a Sunday brunch buffet social scene definitely worth checking out.
- Dovetail Bakery – the newest addition to the who-has-the-best-so-and-so game, and I’m going to call best-cinnamon roll-in-town here, because it’s true. Also on NE Alberta, next to Held Vegan Belts and Vita Cafe.
Hey, Portland first caught my eye in 2004 based on a Peta Veg-Friendly U.S. city list and this gradually steamrolled into my Portland vegan blogging habit. I moved to Portland as an obsessed vegan tourist, and the journey hasn’t ceased.
The above recommendations are for those new or visiting the Portland metro area. If you’d like specific recommendations, please feel free to email or contact me on twitter, @getsconed
WOW !! Grew up in Portland, and now live in Eugene. Recently (8 months) vegan. Wish there were as many vegan-friendly places in Eugene as there appear to be in Portland! Next time I’m up there (go often — lots of family there), I’ll check out some of these places!
I like your blog!
Guess what I found????
Look at what I’m reading right now. <3