Explore Portland
Portland is a green, low-key food obsessive's dream — food-cart pods, world-class coffee and roses, wrapped in forest and framed by Mount Hood. Chauffyr links a Japanese-garden morning, a food-cart lunch and a wood-fired dinner in a fixed-price black car, no parking meters, no rain-soaked walks.
Food carts and craft everything, Powell's books, rose gardens and forested parks, and one of America's most chef-driven dining scenes.
The facts, upfront
The best restaurants in Portland
Kann
Haitian · Wood-fired · $$$ · Central Eastside
Gregory Gourdet's James Beard-winning live-fire Haitian restaurant — Portland's most acclaimed table.
Le Pigeon
French · $$$ · Kerns
Gabriel Rucker's intimate, James Beard-honoured French counter on East Burnside — a Portland classic.
Langbaan
Thai · Tasting · $$$$ · Northwest
A groundbreaking, ticketed Thai tasting-menu room hidden behind a Northwest Portland storefront.
Nong's Khao Man Gai
Thai · $ · Central Eastside
The famous poached-chicken-and-rice cart-turned-shop — one dish, done perfectly.
Screen Door
Southern · Brunch · $$ · Kerns
Portland's beloved Southern kitchen — the fried-chicken-and-waffles brunch is worth the queue.
Voodoo Doughnut
Doughnuts · $ · Old Town
The pink-boxed, all-hours doughnut cult that became a Portland icon.
What to see in Portland
Powell's City of Books
Pearl District
The world's largest independent bookstore — a full city block, over a million books, colour-coded rooms.
International Rose Test Garden
Washington Park
The oldest continuously operating public rose test garden in the U.S., with sweeping city and mountain views.
Portland Japanese Garden
Washington Park
Widely considered the most authentic Japanese garden outside Japan, terraced into a forested hillside.
Lan Su Chinese Garden
Old Town/Chinatown
A walled Suzhou-style garden of pavilions, rockeries and a lake, tucked into downtown.
Portland Art Museum
Downtown
The oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest, with strong Native American and modern collections.
Pittock Mansion
West Hills
A hilltop 1914 chateau-style mansion with the definitive panorama over Portland to Mount Hood.
One perfect day in Portland
9:00 · Morning
Powell's City of BooksPearl District — A full city block of books
11:00 · Late morning
International Rose Test GardenWashington Park — Thousands of rose varieties
13:00 · Lunch
Nong's Khao Man GaiThai · Central Eastside — Poached chicken & rice
15:00 · Afternoon
Portland Japanese GardenWashington Park — Eight garden styles
18:00 · Golden hour
Pittock MansionWest Hills — 1914 French Renaissance mansion
20:00 · Dinner
KannHaitian · Wood-fired · Central Eastside — Wood-fired Haitian plates
Book this day, one chauffeur
One fixed-price car and driver for every stop — no parking, no waiting, no surge.