{"id":57798,"date":"2026-11-15T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/57798\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:35:29","slug":"the-oregonian-oregonlive-guide-to-portlands-best-restaurants-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/57798\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oregonian\/OregonLive guide to Portland\u2019s best restaurants: By the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dining OutPublished: Nov. 12, 2026, 6:58 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Gado Gado Portland\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/F2VQ76LOGFF7PO45JO7NYAVLBM.jpg\"  \/>Indonesian restaurant Gado Gado joined our top 10 for the first time this year.Vickie Connor | The Oregonian\/OregonLive<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NVAJWFZRQVETZFDZSUJXE62VZY\">After months of eating, weeks of writing and a multi-day rollout leading to today\u2019s top 10 announcement, The Oregonian\/OregonLive\u2019s new guide to Portland\u2019s best restaurants is fully revealed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"POYFCNRBHRB5VPCRQ64BSSEPJA\">These numbers tell the tale of how restaurant critic Michael Russell\u2019s picks for the city\u2019s best restaurants all came together.<\/p>\n<p>76: Portland restaurants Russell visited since July to put together our guide to Portland\u2019s best restaurants (77 if you count G\u00fcero and Farag\u2019s separately).1: Restaurant from our 2025 guide that closed.10: Places added \u2014 or added back \u2014 to this year\u2019s guide.16: Number of spots our biggest riser jumped in this year\u2019s rankings (L\u2019Orange, from No. 28 last year to No. 12 today).$12: Least expensive meal eaten for this guide (the brisket-trim burger at Lil\u2019 Barbecue, just $10 on Mondays).$250: Most expensive meal eaten for this guide (the per-person price for Nodoguro\u2019s creative Japanese tasting menu).<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant critic Michael Russell travels throughout the metro area (and beyond) reviewing restaurants, food carts, brewpubs, bakeries and more for The Oregonian. He has worn many hats at the newspaper, from&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dining OutPublished: Nov. 12, 2026, 6:58 a.m.Indonesian restaurant Gado Gado joined our top 10 for the first time this year.Vickie Connor | The Oregonian\/OregonLive After months of eating, weeks of writing and a multi-day rollout leading to today\u2019s top 10 announcement, The Oregonian\/OregonLive\u2019s new guide to Portland\u2019s best restaurants is fully revealed. These numbers tell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,34,42268],"class_list":["post-57798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-best-restaurants","tag-best-restaurant","tag-best-restaurants","tag-blutos"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dnc\/117620724388091369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}