Oysters and fries at the Love Shack. | Carter Hiyama The city’s most astounding restaurants, food carts, bars, and more With its tangle of rivers, bevy of urban farms, and surplus of talented chefs, Portland is a dining city to its core. At food carts, subterranean bars, and white-tablecloth restaurants, chefs gather some of the region’s finest ingredients to transform into immaculate sushi, handmade pastas, and imaginative pintxos. For a city its size, Portland’s restaurant scene is impressively multifaceted — traditional and offbeat, covering hundreds of cuisines from various countries and regions around the world. The through line comes from the city’s collaborative nature, a desire to work with other farmers, producers, and even competitors to make something fun and new. Each quarter, Eater Portland updates the Eater 38, a list of exceptional restaurants and food carts that define what it means to eat here. The list sticks to businesses that have been open in Portland for at least a year, and that add something distinct and invaluable to the dining scene at large. New to the map this month: Bauman’s On Oak, Love Shack, and Memoire Cà Phê. For some of the most exciting new restaurants and carts in Portland, check out the Eater Portland Heatmap.