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Hannah Wallace

Contributing Writer

Contributing Writer

Hannah Wallace is a Portland-based journalist who writes about food, wine, cannabis, sustainable agriculture, wellness, and travel. She writes for Civil Eats, Fast Company, Food & Wine, Inc., Portland Monthly, SevenFifty Daily, Vogue, and the New York Times, among other outlets. She is also a freelance editor.

Born in England to American parents, she grew up in Westminster, Maryland, and Salem, Oregon, and then went on to attend Mount Holyoke College. After spending nearly a decade on staff at Travel + Leisure, she went freelance in 2006 and has been making a living with her words ever since. When she's not busy visiting organic pot farms, touring pastured chicken operations, or interviewing female entrepreneurs you'll find her at a yoga studio or running in Laurelhurst Park. (Or, OK, at a natural wine bar.)

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Aviary

At this inventive French restaurant, you'll enjoy cocktails on the patio and a meal that'll quietly knock your socks off.

Nimblefish

Nimblefish does ultra-fresh sushi (most of it flown in from Japan), perfectly seasoned rice, and very little else.

Lovely's Fifty Fifty

At this cozy restaurant, an open kitchen allows you to watch the chef decorate pizzas with seasonal toppings.

Canard

This vivacious, perennially packed French brasserie—the sibling to Le Pigeon—does playful riffs on high and low.

Langbaan

At Langbaan, the meal is a history lesson; each week's menu is inspired by a particular Thai kingdom or ruler and there's only room for 20 diners at once.

Nodoguro

At this omakase powerhouse, each dish, nigiri included, is like a miniature work of art made from top-notch ingredients flown in daily from Japan.

Headwaters

Seafood is the name of the game at this modern restaurant from Vitaly and Kimberly Paley, whose menu beautifully highlights the bounty of local waters.

Han Oak

Located literally next door to chef Peter Cho's house, this half-indoor, half-outdoor restaurant truly deserves the descriptor "homey."

Smallwares

With some of the chef's signature dishes, this new iteration of a restaurant that once lived on the other end of Fremont doesn't disappoint.

Quaintrelle

With straightforward, memorable cooking, this is the sort of stylish, high-ceilinged, candlelit bistro you wish existed in your neighborhood.

Coquine

By day, this space takes on a cafe-like atmosphere; at night, it transforms into a much-buzzed-about Northwest-French restaurant.

Kachka

Whether you're coming in for happy hour or dinner, there's so much to love about Kachka's creative Slavic menu.

Bistro Agnes

The menu here consists of French bistro classics like Nicoise salad, quiche, a croque monsieur, steak frites, and mussels mariniere.

Tusk

At this stylish, clamorous restaurant, the chef has a way with vegetables, turning out flavors and textures that feel just right.

Beast

This romantic tasting-menu-only restaurant, one of Portland's best dining spots, offers a meal you won't soon forget.
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