Old restaurant

"Unleash your inner foodie in a city that has become a hot culinary destination, and experience an amazingly textured range of global delights created with fresh, locally harvested ingredients". (Fodor, 2008, Portland, 9.)

If coffee is important in Portland, the amazing number of restaurants competing for a diner's loyalty is staggering. While there are always new restaurants to try, there are some old classics still remaining, including the Seafood Grotto in the northwest section of the city. This opened in 1891 as Zack's Oyster House in the Joyce Hotel which now is a hostel.