Ava Gene's on Division Street is a vegetable-heavy Italian restaurant with an excellent wine list that mills its own pasta flour on-site.

Toro Bravo is a small, Inner Northeast Spanish restaurant that serves small bites and entrées, along with a $50 tasting menu that we really like.

Tusk is an East Burnside Mediterranean restaurant where you’ll eat bright plates of fruits and vegetables and dip flatbread into some great hummus.

Ox is an Inner Northeast Argentinian restaurant known for their huge wood fired grill and the wide variety of meat and seafood cooked on it.

Pok Pok is the super cool Thai restaurant that your older cousin who went to college in Portland always used to talk about. However, it's still great.

Beast is a 24-seat restaurant in North Portland that feels like a nice dinner party, complete with shared communal tables and a prix fixe menu.