All the Portland espresso recomendations I could find online, and the shops that come up again and again.

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My Takeaways

The most common names in these blogs are probably:

1. Coava
2. Proud Mary
3. Case Study
4. Heart
5. Stumptown

If you visit any given cafe in Portland, chances are high their beans come from either Heart, Coava or Proud Mary, and for good reason. All three of them are local and put out some solid roasts… but I still recommend finding some smaller shops that still roast in-house.

In my opinion, the most underrated cafes and roasters are:

1. Sterling
2. Deadstock
3. Courier

and the most overrated are:

1. Stumptown
2. Case Study
3. Never Coffee (unless you really like lattes)
4. PUSH X PULL

Lists From Other Blogs

As of Jun 15 2023

PDX Monthly

Perhaps the most solid collection of Portland roasters and cafes, I found several shops I’d never heard of while it doesn’t miss the usual suspects.

1. Abba
2. Albina Press
3. Carnelian Coffee
4. Case Study
5. Cathedral Coffee
6. Courier Coffee
7. Deadstock
8. Either/Or
9. Electrica
10. The Fresh Pot
11. Futura Coffee Roasters
12. Good Coffee
13. Guilder
14. Heart
15. In J/Super Joy
16. J Vein Caffe
17. Kalesa
18. Keeper Coffee
19. Less and More
20. Never Coffee
21. Portland Cà Phê
22. Prince Coffee
23. PUSH X PULL
24. Roseline
25. Soro Soro
26. Sterling Coffee
27. Tōv Coffee
28. Upper Left Roasters

Oregon Obsessed

I’ve tried (and liked) almost all of Oregon Obsessed’s recomendations, though a few are overrated in my opinion:

1. Coava
2. Good Coffee
3. Stumptown
4. Case Study
5. Nossa Familia
6. Proud Mary
7. Deadstock
8. Never Coffee
9. Ovation
10. Portland Coffee Roasters

Daily Hive

Good to see Coava consistently topping these lists - hadn’t heard of Pájaro either.

1. Coava
2. Pájaro
3. PUSH X PULL
4. Heart Coffee
5. Stumptown
6. Upper Left
7. Deadstock
8. Good Coffee

Coffee Affection

Pretty much just hits the usual suspects. Not much is new here.

1. Coava
2. Good Coffee
3. Stumptown
4. Case Study
5. Nossa Familia
6. Proud Mary
7. Deadstock
8. Never Coffee
9. Ovation
10. Portland Coffee Roasters

FourSquare

1. Barista
2. Coava
3. Stumptown
4. Case Study
5. Heart
6. Courier
7. Spella
8. Sterling
9. Water Avenue
10. Good Coffee
11. Common Grounds
12. Nossa Familia

HopCulture

I hadn’t seen Kiosko before:

1. Proud Mary
2. Kiosko
3. Heart
4. Stumptown
5. Never Coffee Lab
6. Good Coffee
7. Coava

Boam

Fairlane is the only name on this list new to me. Pretty solid list.

1. Good Coffee
2. Nossa Familia
3. PUSH X PULL
4. Sunny Day Coffee
5. Ole Latte Coffee
6. Ovation Coffee & Tea
7. Fairlane Coffee
8. Sisters Coffee Company in The Pearl
9. Coava
10. Grendel’s Coffee House

R/Espresso Subreddit

As of the time of writing, many subreddits are protesting a recent change to reddit’s 3rd party API access rules, so I can’t view the listright now.

Bean Box

1. Roseline Coffee
2. Water Avenue Coffee Company
3. Coava
4. Good Coffee
5. Ovation
6. Proud Mary
7. Prince
8. Either/Or
9. Heart Cofffee Roasters
10. Nossa Familia Coffee
11. Stumptown

Trip Advisor

This list is focused on cafes and not really coffee… there were some names on this list I hadn’t seen before, so I’ll keep it around… but I wouldn’t put much weight on these names (hence why it comes last in my research page).

1. Chery’s on 12th
2. St Honore
3. Tin Shed Garden Cafe
4. Jam on Hawthorne
5. Island Cafe
6. Ken’s Artisan Bakery
7. Stumptown
8. The Waffle Window
9. Case Study
10. Cadillac Cafe
11. Milo’s City Cafe
12. Broder
13. Lovejoy
14. Gravy
15. Dragonfly Coffee House
16. Zell’s
17. Bleu Door Bakery
18. Petunia’s Pies & Pastries
19. Cameo Cafe
20. Public Domain Coffee
21. Stepping Stone Cafe
22. The Daily Feast PDX
23. Barista
24. Dulin’s Cafe
25. Heart Coffee
26. Babica Hen Cafe
27. Prasad