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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Willamette Week. Updated August 2026.
kann · Buckman
Chef Gregory Gourdet's Kann is a live-fire Haitian restaurant that has drawn national attention, from The Oregonian naming it its Portland restaurant of the year for 2025 to a New York Times new-restaurant nod and a high national placement. The Central Eastside room pairs Haitian flavor with wood-fired cooking and Gourdet's Beard-honored track record.
Jamaican Homestyle Cuisine · Humboldt
Willamette Week called Jamaican Homestyle Cuisine the most consistently flavorful of the city's Jamaican spots, praising an oxtail plate and jerk chicken liberal with Scotch-bonnet heat. The Black-owned, woman-owned North Portland kitchen builds a menu of braised oxtail, curry goat, and jerk chicken from Jamaican-sourced ingredients.
Jamaica House · St. Johns
Chef Simba Puma, a lifelong Rastafarian raised in Saint Ann Parish, cooks jerk in the former Baowry space in St. Johns over a menu of curries and Jamaican staples. Willamette Week's four-way comparison of the city's Jamaican restaurants called its jerk sauce the richest in town, low on pepper heat but heavy on deep, earthy, herbal notes. Order the jerk, and the jerk tofu if you are skipping meat.
Yaad Style Jamaican Cuisine · Sabin
A spacious, sparse-walled room on Martin Luther King Boulevard near Fremont, with a small tutorial in Jamaican patois posted by the door. It runs one of the broadest Jamaican menus in the city, from jerk chicken to curries and sides, and Willamette Week's citywide comparison singled out its veggie patty as the one in Portland it would heartily recommend. Order a patty and the jerk chicken.