Ron Scott/Eater Portland No need to drive into Portland or Oregon City this fall for a dose of steam burgers or oeufs en mayonnaise, Beaverton residents The owners behind the acclaimed (and beloved) Portland restaurant Canard have plans for another big expansion. Chef Gabrie l Rucker and co-owners Andy Fortgang and Taylor Daughtery will add another location to the growing Canard empire with a new location in Beaverton, set to open in the fall, as first reported by the Oregonian. Rucker shares that the Canard team was on the hunt for a new location when they landed on Beaverton, which not only has a “great population of hungry people,” but also a space they fell in love with and could see the potential in. The location: The former Beaverton Bakery at 12395 SW Broadway Street — more specifically, the movie theater space, which later morphed into a sign shop following Beaverton Bakery’s closure in 2018. “It had all the energy and all the feelings of, ‘This can work,’” Rucker says. “I’ve been in countless places where I don’t have that feeling, so I’m able to recognize that feeling these days. [Daugherty and I] both had the feeling of, ‘This has the vibe that can be a Canard.’” Daughtery agrees that the building has character. Mark Annen of Annen Architecture will handle the design once again, much like he did with Little Bird, which closed in 2019, and both Canard locations. “When you walk in, there’s the old movie theater marquee out front and a mezzanine that’s still up there — it just felt like it had already lived a life, and that we could breathe a new one into it,” Daughtery says. The addition of Canard is an exciting prospect for Beaverton, home to major business campuses including Nike World Headquarters. Canard’s been a sensation since its debut in Portland’s Buckman neighborhood, racking up accolades like a spot on Eater’s national list of the Best New Restaurants in 2018. The Oregon City location, which opened in 2022, was dubbed a family-friendly version of Canard, and it’s that location that Beaverton’s new outpost will more closely mimic. Bill Addison/Eater A strawberry-coconut Paris-Brest. It’s early in the planning process, but already the team shares that it’ll have Canard staples like the duck stack, steam burgers, and oeufs en mayonnaise, as the Oregonian reported. But Rucker already has ideas for Beaverton’s signature dessert, sharing that he’s working on a graham cracker-toasted marshmallow icebox cake to join the standout Paris-Brest dessert at the Burnside Street location and the mille-feuille in Oregon City. “Portland is kind of on an island, and a little bit of an outlier from the menu — it vibes a little bit differently,” Rucker says. “But, these two restaurants [Oregon City and Beaverton], we really want them to be more mirroring of the menus and more in line with each other, but we want that signature dessert to be a little bit different.” The Oregon City location of Canard has become a place for anniversaries and birthdays, but it’s also the kind of spot where locals can evolve into regulars and grab lunch at the bar nearly every day, Daughtery says, and the team’s been pleasantly surprised that they’ve been embraced as a neighborhood restaurant. And they’re hoping to repeat that success with Beaverton. “As [we] expand out into the suburbs and it’s more families, you picture yourself being there for 20 years, if you have a good run and if you’re lucky,” Daughtery says. “And you see young families grow up, you see kids start to have their prom dinners there — and that’s when you know you’ve struck it.” Canard (12395 SW Broadway Street, Beaverton) is set to open in Fall 2025. ...read more read less