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Where To Find Filipino Food in the Portland Metro Area
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items Filipino Food is delicious all year long, but every April we celebrate Filipino Food Month, so this is my collection of recommendations at this time of year. These are the places in Portland where you can find tasty Filipino dishes, drinks, and treat...
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Sit-down spaces where you can enjoy Filipino food.
Located in Hillsboro, they offer a somewhat meat-heavy menu in a sort of steam table setup. They also serve boba drinks.
Bobalicious Cafe
Located in the Parkrose neighborhood, I love this place. Fork and Spoon, owned and operated by Erwina Barney, offers classic Filipino dishes you might see in Manila, like Lumpia, Sisilog, Kare-Kare, Pancit, Halo-Halo and more. It's considered more tr...
Fork And Spoon
Offering “Filipino Fusion” food near PSU, you’ll find a lot of fun things to eat with Filipino flavors and techniques. Like Dynamite Lumpia (jalapeño cream cheese wrapped and deep fried), adobo wings, musubi, and a Kare-Kare Bacon Burger. They also o...
HunnyBeez
This little spot in Bethany Village Center offers homestyle Filipino cooking, just like you Filipino auntie would make.
Kubo
Located in Gresham, they offer Authentic Filipino-Hawaiian food. Think Kalua pork, Lechon Kawali, Wilog all day, Pancit, flan, and more.
Kuya’s Islander Cuisine
Run by James Beard Award winner Carlos Lamagna, Magna Kusina is considered one of Portland’s best Filipino restaurants. They offer street food and classic Filipino dishes, from skewers to lumpia to chicken adobo. The food is considered consistently g...
Magna Kusina
Likely one of the only Filipino restaurants in Vancouver, Manila Couve offers traditional Filipino fare, like chicken adobo, Pancit, crispy pata, and Dinugunan. I've met the owners and they are excited to be bringing their culture through food to “Th...
Manila Couve
Located inside the Moxy Hotel lobby in downtown Portland, Sun Rice originally was a pop-up and farmers market denizen. They specialize in rice bowls topped with everything from seared fish to veggie curry. Their mango iced tea is also excellent.
SUN RICE
Tambayan means “a place to hang out” in Tagalog. Head here for the classics: chicken adobo, Pancit, and Lumpia.
Tambayan Restaurant
Bakery and Coffee
Have a cup of coffee and something sweet!
Located inside the Fork and Spoon Filipino restaurant, you can have a coffee or tea while enjoying some Filipino sweets like ube cupcakes and ube bread pudding.
Chik & Chuck's Coffee
Named after a traditional horse-drawn carriage in the Philippines, Kalesa Coffee is a community space serving Filipino baked goods and other dishes, as well as drinks, made with traditional flavors. You can get a sweet corn shakerato, a coconut cold ...
Kalesa Coffee
Named after the sweet Filipino dessert halo-halo, they offer sweets and drinks. They also offer vegan and gluten-free items. Some recent things they’ve offered are Ginataang Bilo Bilo, ube cupcakes, pandan mamon, and more. I love that they are next t...
Shop Halo Halo
Owned also by Erwina Barney (the woman behind Fork and Spoon), this sweet Filipino bakery makes familiar items: savory empanadas, pandesal, ensaymada, pan de coco, and more.
St Barbra Pinoy Bakery
Food Carts
From Hillsboro to Portland, there is great Filipino food to be found in our food carts/trucks.
This Filipino food cart is located in the Alberta Street Pod and lunch and dinner, as well as brunch on Sundays only. It’s a small menu, but the choices are great: Kare-Kare, Lumpia, Sisig, plus the tasty Talongsilog on Sunday brunch. Plus, calamansi...
Baon Kainan
Head here for unconventional Filipino food mixed with American sensibilities. Consider the Amboy burger topped with atchara, a burger patty made from longanisa, adobo poutine, and more. They are located in the L’il America food cart pod.
Makulít
Here they offer authentic Filipino BBQ and fusion dishes, like Lumpia Shanghai, Pancit, and Pork Adobo.
Rommel's Food Truck