Miss Delta
Restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
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Miss Delta is a Southern restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States.[1][2] Anastasia Corya and Anton Pace opened the restaurant in 2007, and later sold the business to Marcus Oliver, who expanded the Cajun and Creole-menu to include barbecue.
- Anastasia Corya
- Anton Pace
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 The restaurant's exterior, 2025 | |
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| Established | 2007 |
| Owner | Marcus Oliver |
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| Location | 3950 North Mississippi Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97227, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°33′5.9″N 122°40′31.1″W |
| Website | missdeltapdx |
Description
The Southern restaurant Miss Delta, located in the north Portland part of the Boise neighborhood, serves brunch, lunch, and dinner.[3] According to John Chandler of Portland Monthly, the restaurant "is the slightly-less-thrift-store-funky offspring of the original Delta Cafe on SE Woodstock, a joint that earned its rep by dropping huge platters of Southern cooking on its customers for embarrassingly small sums of money".[4] The Portland Mercury's Alison Hallett described Miss Delta as a "well-designed little space" with wood floors, exposed brick walls, and "quirky" light fixtures "that suffuse the place with a bourbon-y hue create an atmosphere redolent with both Southern gentility and North Portland chic".[5]
The Cajun and Creole-influenced[6] menu has included soul food[7] such as barbecue,[8] biscuits and gravy,[9] catfish sandwiches,[10] cauliflower casserole, chicken and waffles,[11] cornbread muffins, fried okra, hushpuppies, gumbo, and po'boys.[12][13] The Trashy Mac is macaroni and cheese with smoked chicken and pesto, jambalaya, or gumbo.[14][15][16] The Meat Sweats is a platter of andouille, brisket, blackened chicken, pulled pork, and spare ribs.[12] Sides have included coleslaw, collards, mashed potatoes with chicken sausage gravy, and red beans and rice.[17] The dessert menu has included marionberry cobbler, sweet potato pie, and Milky Way cake (dark chocolate cake with chunks of Milky Way candy and caramel).[6]
History
Anastasia Corya and Anton Pace, who previously opened the Delta Cafe in 1995, opened Miss Delta in August 2007.[6] Previously, the space had housed Pasta Bangs.[18] Marcus Oliver later became the owner.[19] He purchased the restaurant and expanded the mostly Cajun/Creole menu to include barbecue.[20]
In 2013, Michael Russell of The Oregonian called Miss Delta a "one-time spinoff of ... cult favorite Delta Cafe" and said the restaurant "has seemed to change hands more times than the Mississippi River has tributaries".[17] Like many restaurants, the business experienced difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic, including staffing issues and temporary closures.[21][22] In 2021, Oliver's book Cool and Kooky Kids Coloring Cookbook was sold at the restaurant.[23] The business participated in Portland's first Fried Chicken Week in 2025.[24]
Reception
In his 2007 review of Miss Delta, Tim LaBarge of The Oregonian wrote, "Don't let the lighthearted interior fool you: Miss Delta is a place for serious eating and Southern comfort."[25] The newspaper's Grant Butler called the fried chicken "stellar" and said the "sides are good across the board".[26] In 2008, Butler said the restaurant "captures the essence of Southern cooking in all its cast-iron glory. Whether it's perfect black-eyed pea fritters or spicy jambalaya with hot sausage, smoked chicken and shrimp, dishes have a calories-be-damned approach. Portions are so large they have their own gravitational pull: The thing separating comfort from extreme discomfort is your own self-control."[27][28]
