The Best Restaurants in Portlands Outer West Side and the Western Suburbs

Tunnel under the West Hills to find the region’s best Korean, Hawaiian and Szechuan.

Spring Restaurant (Liz Allen)

Paiche
4237 SW Corbett Ave., 503-403-6186, paichepdx.com. Breakfast and early lunch Monday-Friday. $.
Paiche was our 2016 Restaurant of the Year because of its stunning ceviches and potato plates from wild-eyed Peruvian surfer-chef Jose Luis de Cossio. When de Cossio had a crisis of conscience about culling from our overfished seas, Paiche transformed into a coffee shop with a menu hand-written on notebook paper featuring a tiny collection of vegan dishes, like tamales rich with corn and pepper spice, beautiful purple-potato causa and an eggplant cake like nothing else on Earth. It’s all outrageously good—de Cossio could butter toast and make art.

Kama’aina
1910 Main St. A, Forest Grove, 503-430-0465, kamaainacfoh.com. Lunch and dinner daily. $$.
Pacific University brings a lot of Hawaiian students to the mainland, so it makes sense that Forest Grove now has Oregon’s best kalua pork, lau lau and mac salad. Kama’aina can turn out a stupefyingly good teriyaki chicken plate, but service is spotty and, occasionally, comically bad.

Tastebud
7783 SW Capitol Highway, 503-245-4573, tastebudpdx.com. Dinner nightly. $$.
Tastebud Pizza saved the restaurant desert of Multnomah Village with fine wood-fired pizzas topped with peaches and pancetta. There’s an hour wait on a Friday, but once you’re seated, you can sate yourself with warm marinated olives.

Taste of Sichuan
16261 NW Cornell Road, Beaverton, 503-629-7001, beaverton.tasteofsichuan.com. Lunch and dinner daily. $.
The menu has the heft of a family photo album, but all you need is the “Wild Side” section, with melt-your-face-off stews, jellyfish, pickled frog and irresistibly enigmatic soups like “The Great Fire Pot Debate” and “The Other Parts of a Pig.”

Amelia’s
105 NE 4th Ave., Hillsboro, 503-615-0191, ameliasmexicanfood.com. Lunch and dinner Monday-Saturday. $$.
The mustard yellow building in spiffed-up downtown Hillsboro offers Mexican family favorites and less-familiar fare like chamorro de cordero, a divine platter of tender lamb shank in chili-and-tomatillo sauce.

Spring
3975 SW 114th Ave., Beaverton, 503-641-3670. Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Sunday. $.
Hidden away above a ramshackle grocery store that looks like it may have once housed a bowling alley, Spring offers a steaming bowl of their sujebi and the cleanest-tasting sundubu jjigae soft-tofu stew broth we’ve encountered.

DJK
12275 SW Canyon Road, Beaverton, 503-641-1734. Lunch and dinner daily. $-$$$.
Once you over-order at this grill-topped hall of Korean BBQ it’s arts-and-crafts time, unfurling spare rib or pork belly with your tongs. Don’t sleep on haemul dolsot bibimbap, a Far-East paella with squid and shrimp in a screaming-hot stone bowl. 

Yuzu
4130 SW 117th Ave, Beaverton, 503-350-1801. Lunch and dinner Monday-Sunday. $-$$.
Beaverton’s hidden Yuzu izakaya serves delightful small bites and a wonderful ramen tonkotsu broth devoted to excessive pork-sweet fatness, a butterball of pure comfort for which no other broth in town substitutes.

Beaverton Sub Station
12448 SW Broadway St., Beaverton, 503-641-7827, beavertonsubstation.com. Breakfast and lunch Monday-Friday, lunch Saturday. $.
The “sub” in the name is short for sublime. The only truly great classic deli sandwiches in the metro area comes from a downtown Beaverton strip mall. Coffee costs a quarter, rolls are baked fresh down the block and the subs are perfectly built from perfect things.

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