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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in The Oregonian/OregonLive, Willamette Week, and Portland Monthly. Updated July 2026.
Han Oak Restaurant · Kerns
Chef Peter Cho and Sun Young Park run Han Oak as a warm, communal room serving seasonally inflected Korean home cooking, more recently including a premium hot pot format. Named The Oregonian's Restaurant of the Year in 2017, it is one of the defining kitchens of Portland's modern Korean American scene.
Jeju Restaurant · Portland
From the team behind Han Oak, Jeju turns Korean barbecue into a prix fixe, nose to tail meal cooked in a wood fired oven rather than at a tabletop grill. Banchan, sashimi, housemade dumplings, and ssam wraps round out considered courses instead of an all you can eat rush.
Ko Sisters Seoul Food · Boise
Seoul born sisters Susie and Ann Song hand bread a Korean corn dog of fish cake sausage and mozzarella in a sweet savory panko crust, plus a skewer of chewy rice cakes, sausage, and glass noodles fried in sticky red sauce. Seoul night market food built for a Portland cart pod on N Williams.
1st Street Pocha · Beaverton
A Beaverton Korean fried chicken specialist that earned a spot on Portland Monthly's Beaverton coverage. It sits within the dense cluster of Korean restaurants that has made Beaverton, not inner Portland, the metro's real center of gravity for the cuisine.
Always Spring Restaurant · Beaverton
A Beaverton standby for home style Korean cooking, recommended for its yukgaejang, a spicy shredded beef soup loaded with green onion and bracken fiddlehead, and its ugeoji galbi tang, a short rib and cabbage soup. It is the kind of steady neighborhood spot regulars return to for comfort food.