THE PORTLAND COMPANION EBOOK
We’re a couple of weeks away from publishing the 200+-page Portland Companion eBook, but here’s an overview of what the main topics are. The copy is done; figuring out the logistics of e-book publication is next. Thanks for your patience.
Iconic Portland • Restaurants • Bars • Coffee & Tea • Food & Drink • Food Carts • Ice Cream • Pizza • Sandwiches • Cheese • Foodville • Farmers Markets • Farms • Breweries & Brewpubs • Distilleries •Cocktail Bars •Wineries & Wine Bars • Bars, Pubs & Taverns • Romance • Entertainment • Shopping • Arts & Culture • Strip Clubs • Bookstores •Kids • Dogs • Bikes • Parks & Hikes • Street Walks • Neighborhoods • Festivals •Architecture •
+ North Willamette Valley • Columbia Gorge • North Coast
And here are the eBook contents:
THE PORTLAND COMPANION CONTENTS
Throughout the book, an asterisk * signifies a place or experience that’s a personal favorite of the author. Listings are alphabetical within each quadrant or district. Neighborhoods are in parenthesis after the street address.
Getting Around
Portland Neighborhood Map
Iconic Portland
A Brief History of Food & Drink in Portland
Eating
Restaurant Codes • Portland’s Best Restaurants • Worthy Neighborhood Restaurants & Food Carts • Let’s Hear it for Hillsboro! • Food Cart Pods • Mexico & Latin America • Asia • Asian Grocery Stores & Supermarkets • Slava Ukraini • It’s…Europe • Coffee, Tea & Chocolate Houses • Breakfast & Brunch Worthy Diners • Bakeries • Donuts & Cupcakes • Pizza • Sandwiches • Fish & Chips • Oysters on the Half Shell & Indie Fishmongers • Steak • Hot Dogs • Barbecue • A Few Good Burgers • Classic Portland Butchers • Vegan • Cheese • Champagne & Dessert • Coffee & Dessert • Mezcal & Dessert • Pie • Ice Cream • Chocolate
Foodville
Farmers Markets & Farms • Foodville in the Neighborhoods
Drinking
Breweries with Brewpubs • Beer Pubs & Brewery Taprooms • Cask/Real Ale • Distilleries with Tasting Rooms • Whisky Bars • Cigars • Cocktail Bars • Mezcal, Tequila, Pisco, Sake • Liquor Stores • Urban Wineries, Wine Bars & Bottle Shops • Cider • Rooftop Bars & Dive Bars • Sports Bars & Soccer Pubs • Neighborhood Taverns & Pubs • McMenamins • Happy Hour • Romance & Nostalgia • Going Solo
Entertainment
Live Music • Concert Venues • Music Bars & Clubs • Games • Records, Strip Clubs & Vaux Swifts
Shopping
Vintage Shops & Thrifting • Gifting • Street Fairs • Cannabis
Culture
Nice Buildings • A Northwest Reader • Cultural Resources • A Portland Listener • Watch it! • Newspapers & Radio • Bookstores • Comics & Graphic Art • Just Go Buy Art
PDX Kids (& Kids at Heart)
Games • Comics & Books • City Fun • It’s Too Hot! • River & Lake Swimming • Waterfalls & Beach Towns • It’s Raining!
PDX Dogs
PDX Bikes
Street Walks & Stravaigs: Eating, Drinking, Shopping and Playing in the Neighborhoods
Powell & Foster • Division Street • Central Eastside • Kenton
Abbreviated Street Walks & Stravaigs: Old Town–Chinatown • 21st & 23rd Avenues (Northwest District) • Alberta Street • NE Killingsworth Street • Mississippi Street • SE 13th Avenue & SE Milwaukie Avenue (Sellwood/Moreland) • SE Hawthorne Boulevard • SE Belmont Street • Woodstock Boulevard • Stark Street (Buckman & Montavilla) • Multnomah Village
The Great Outdoors
Urban Parks • Worthy Hiking & A Few Good Hikes
A Few Good Festivals
Day Trips (Within a 2-hour drive from Portland)
North Willamette Valley
Wineries, Breweries, Restaurants, Bars & Destinations in McMinnville • Carlton • Dundee • Newberg • Salem
North Coast
Restaurants, Bars, Hikes, Breweries, Whale Watching & Destinations in Astoria • Long Beach • Seaside • Cannon Beach • Manzanita • Rockaway • Garibaldi • Tillamook • Netarts • Pacific City
Columbia Gorge
Restaurants, Bars, Farms, Wineries & Destinations in Troutdale • Cascade Locks • Native Fishers • Hood River • Mosier • Mount Hood Fruit Loop & Hood River Valley • Parkdale • White Salmon • Maryhill • Pendleton
Women, Black, LGBTQ & Indigenous Businesses
Portland Companions