Beaverton booming: Meet the new and upcoming restaurants bringing heat to Portland’s best dining suburb

It’s been a busy few years for Beaverton’s restaurant scene. New arrivals started showing up around 2018, when the city successfully courted Big’s Chicken to take over an old rubber stamp shop in the city’s Old Town neighborhood. Since then, the surrounding streets have become filled with names familiar to Portland food and drink fans — Afuri Izakaya, Top Burmese, Whole Bowl, Ex Novo Brewing.

But that might be a trickle compared to the flood to come. With the arrival of the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts earlier this year, new restaurants are popping up from Old Town to Cedar Hills Crossing. As we prepare to publish our first restaurant guide to Central Beaverton this week, here’s a list of the city’s new (less than one year old) and upcoming restaurants, bakeries, cafes and brewpubs.

1st Street Pocha

This popular Korean street food restaurant replaced Beaverton’s beloved Du Kuh Bee in the narrow space between Koya Sushi and Nak Won, alongside a new pedestrian plaza complete with tables, tree stump chairs and a covered kid’s play area.

Opened in: September 2021

Address: 12590 S.W. First St., Suite B

Bamboo Sushi

Construction is underway on the sustainable sushi group’s first Beaverton location, found across a walkway from the Cedar Hills Crossing Shake Shack.

Opening date: 2022

Address: 2545 S.W. Cedar Hills Blvd. Suite 120

Binary Brewing

The microbrewery at Southwest Portland’s Uptown Beer bar is branching out with a new brewery, taproom and slider concept in the fully renovated former Beaverton Bakery space.

Opening date: TBD

Address: 12375 S.W. Broadway St.

Breakside cart pod and taproom(s)

Portland’s premier brewery plans to open a food cart pod (with Matt’s BBQ, Farmer & The Beast and Tito’s Taquitos on board), two tap rooms (including one in a shipping container) and an American tavern from the folks behind Please Louise pizzeria, all on a pair of Old Town lots behind Ex Novo Brewing.

Opening date: 2022

Address: 12680 S.W. Farmington Rd.

Caspian Kabob

North Portland’s favorite Persian food cart will bring its saffron rice and salmon kebabs to a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the upcoming West End District, a new development at the site of the old Kmart.

Opening date: May 2022

Address: 3807 S.W. Orbit St. Suite 110

Hapa Pizza

Natalie and Aaron Truong plan to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant for their Asian-inspired pizzeria this summer, but their Saturday stall at the Beaverton Farmers Market will continue.

Opening date: August 2022

Address: 12755 S.W. Broadway St.

In-N-Out Burger

The notoriously tight lipped California-based burger chain has explored a site near the Chick-fil-A on Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway. Expect an official announcement when construction starts.

Opening date: TBD

Address: Near 10565 S.W. Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy.

K-Town Korean BBQ

Portland’s original all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue parlor opened its third location in Beaverton earlier this year, complete with K-Pop videos on the TVs.

Opened in: February 2022

Address: 4570 S.W. Lombard Ave.

Loyal Legion

The buzzy Southeast Portland beer bar opened its second location to big crowds at the former Bank of Beaverton building late last year.

Opened in: November 2021

Address: 4500 S.W. Watson Ave.

Moberi

This Portland-based smoothie and açaí bowl cafe recently opened its fourth location — and first in Beaverton — at Cedar Hills Crossing.

Opened in: April 2022

Address: 2545 SW Cedar Hills Blvd Suite 110

Paris Baguette

Two years after competitor Tous Les Jours touched down in Beaverton, similarly South Korean bakery mega chain Paris Baguette opened its first Oregon location at Cedar Hills Crossing with a new line of blood orange mochi doughnuts.

Opening date: January 2022

Address: 2725 S.W. Cedar Hills Blvd. Suite 105

Portland Cider Co.

The cidery, which has a production facility and main taproom in Clackamas, plus a second taproom on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, is opening a third location just west of downtown Beaverton by early summer.

Opening date: June 2022

Address: 4005 S.W. Orbit St. #120

Ranch Pizza and Loro

Ranch Pizza plans to open a fifth location alongside a new cafe concept, Loro, in new construction one block from Lascala Apartments.

Opening date: 2022

Address: 4815 S.W. Lombard Ave.

Salt & Straw

Later this year, Portland’s signature small-batch ice cream shop already plans to set up shop in a standalone building within sight of Shake Shack.

Opening date: 2022

Address: In new construction at Cedar Hills Crossing.

Shake Shack

Though plans were in place for a location across from Powell’s City of Books before the pandemic, the global burger and frozen custard chain ended up opening its first Oregon location in Beaverton.

Opened in: April 2021

Address: 2597 S.W. Cedar Hills Blvd.

Sizzle Pie

The Portland pizzeria known for its vegan options opened its latest location between Top Burmese and The Sudra in the heart of Beaverton’s restaurant row.

Opened in: January 2022

Address: 12645 S.W. First St.

Stevens Italiano

This pandemic-time pivot from Burger Stevens owner Don Salamone will bring its Italian comfort food (plus a bistro burger, and cocktails) to a full restaurant in the former Waba Korean Grill space.

Opening date: December 2022

Address: 12055 S.W. First St.

The Sudra

Portland’s popular plant-based Indian fusion restaurant brought its signature tikka masala soy curls to a corner spot in Beaverton’s Old Town neighborhood late last year.

Opened in: October 2022

Address: 4589 S.W. Watson Ave.

Tiger Sugar

This cult-favorite boba shop, known for the “tiger stripes” of dark syrup running along the side of each cup, picked Beaverton to open its first Oregon location this year.

Opened in: February 2022

Address: 4130 S.W. Lombard Ave.

Know of a new or upcoming restaurant we missed? Drop reporter Michael Russell a line at [email protected].