Bollywood Theater
Pair of Indian restaurants in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
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Bollywood Theater is an Indian restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. It operates in the Vernon neighborhood. Previously, another location was in southeast Portland's Richmond neighborhood.
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| Established | 2012 |
| Food type | Indian |
| Location | 2039 NE Alberta Street, Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°33′33″N 122°38′38″W |
| Website | bollywoodtheaterpdx |
Description and history
The business has operated restaurants on Northeast Alberta Street and Southeast Division Street.[1] The northeast location opened in 2012.[2] The southeast restaurant began operating in February 2014[1] and closed permanently on April 19, 2025.[3]
Troy MacLarty, a former cook at Chez Panisse, owns the restaurant and serves as its chef.[4][5]
Reception
Matthew Korfage of Willamette Week described Bollywood as "pure Portland: upscale street food amid mismatched tables, variegated artisanal knickknackery and deeply ironized shrines to foreign film".[6] The business won in the Best Indian Restaurant category of the newspaper's annual 'Best of Portland' readers' poll in 2016,[7] 2017,[8] 2018,[9] 2020,[10] 2022,[11] and 2024.[12] It ranked second in the same category in 2025.[13]
Ron Scott and Janey Wong included the restaurant in Eater Portland's 2022 overview of "exceptional" Indian food in the city.[14] Rebecca Roland included Bollywood in the website's 2025 overview of the Portland's best Indian food.[15]
