Voting is open for the next category of The Oregonian’s Readers Choice Awards: the best place for pie in the Portland area.
The 10 finalists below received the most reader nominations.
Want to help your favorite spot find the recognition it deserves? You can vote once a day at this link or at the bottom of this post until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. We’ll reveal the results on Friday, Nov. 8 at oregonlive.com/readers-choice.
Baker & Spice
This Hillsdale bakery started as a stall at the downtown Portland Farmers Market in 1998. It offers sweet and savory pastries, breads and more. Options include apple blackberry handpies and chicken potpies.
6330 S.W. Capitol Hwy., 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, bakerandspicepdx.com
Banning’s Restaurant & Pie House
The last time we asked you to vote on the best pie was in honor of Pi Day in 2016, and Banning’s took the title. This old school diner in Tigard has been around for a minute, or 45 years to be precise. Right now, they are offering nine flavors of pie, including apple, coconut cream and peanut butter.
11477 S.W. Pacific Hwy., Tigard, 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday; banningsrestaurant.com
Bipartisan Cafe
This cafe in the Montavilla neighborhood serves coffee, tea, sandwiches and pastries, but its specialty is pie. Options include cherry, banana cream and pumpkin.
7901 S.E. Stark St., 6:30 a.m.-6 p.m. daily; bipartisancafe.com
Blue Raeven Pies
This family farm grows berries, apples and peaches and makes pies, jams and syrup.
You can find their pies at the farmstand in Amity as well as Zupan’s Markets in Portland and Lake Oswego. They make gluten-free, dairy-free and sugar-free options with flavors like apple blackberry, rhubarb peach and pumpkin chiffon.
20650 S. Hwy. 99W, Amity, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday; blueraevenfarmstand.com
Lauretta Jean’s
In 2018, we ranked chocolate creams pies and this spot known for its flaky, buttery crusts finished second. (The winner was the sadly now-closed Random Order Coffeehouse & Bakery.) Options at Lauretta Jean’s include blackberry raspberry streusel, salted honey and chocolate bourbon pecan.
3402 S.E. Division St., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday; laurettajeans.com
Mehri’s Cafe and Bakery
This neighborhood spot in Southeast Portland serves breakfast and lunch as well as a big selection of cakes and pies. Options include marionberry, apple minced meat and sweet potato pie.
6923 S.E. 52nd Ave., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday; mehris.com
Mother’s Bistro & Bar
This staple of the Portland restaurant scene won the brunch category of our Readers Choice Awards in September. In addition to the cheesy breakfast nachos and wild salmon hash, Mother’s offers a pie of the day. A recent selection was a black bottom coconut cream pie with a macadamia nut cookie crust.
121 S.W. 3rd Ave., 5-9 p.m. Tuesday, 9 a.m.-2p.m. and 5-9 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday mothersbistro.com
The Pie Guy
Bart VanDomelen has been baking pies with fruit from his North Plains farm and selling them at places like the Hillsboro Saturday Farmers’ Market since 1996. You can also buy them from a fridge on his front porch. Flavors include razzleberry (raspberry, blueberry and marionberry), pumpkin and sour cream key lime.
19441 N.W. Dairy Creek Rd., North Plains, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. daily; The Pie Guy on Facebook
Pies fresh from the oven sit on display at Pie Spot in 2011, when it was named one of Portland’s best new food carts. Tyler Tjomsland | The Oregonian
Pie Spot
Pie Spot started selling its sweet and savory selections at farmers markets in 2009 and was named one of Portland’s best new food carts in 2011. Today, it’s a brick-and-mortar shop in the Kerns neighborhood. Gluten-free and vegan crusts are available. Sweet flavors include chocolate hazelnut, lemon vanilla bean and blueberry ginger. Savory options include chicken potpie, mushroom gruyere potpie and breakfast quiche.
521 N.E. 24th Ave., 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily; pie-spot.com
Screen Door
This restaurant specializing in Southern food also placed in the brunch category of our Readers Choice Awards. Options for sweet treats include Creole pecan pie and banoffee pie (a shortbread and pecan crust filled with bananas and caramel and topped with whipped cream).
9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m. daily, 2337 E. Burnside St. and 1131 N.W. Couch St., screenddoorrestaurant.com
Vote here
You can vote once a day until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. We’ll reveal the results on Friday, Nov. 8 at oregonlive.com/readers-choice.
Mims Copeland is a social media producer and covers trending topics for The Oregonian/OregonLive. Reach her at mcopeland@oregonian.com
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