Produce Row Café
Restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
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Produce Row Café, or Produce Row, is a restaurant and craft beer bar in Portland, Oregon's Buckman neighborhood, in the United States.
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 The restaurant's exterior in 2020 | |
 Interactive map of Produce Row Café | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1974 |
| Food type | Pacific Northwest[1] |
| Location | 204 Southeast Oak Street, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, 97214-1018, United States |
| Coordinates | 45.51994°N 122.663495°W |
| Website | producerowcafe |
Description
In 2016, Martin Cizmar of Willamette Week wrote, "Before it closed in 2014, Produce Row was a 40-year tradition of beer and music—home to multiple generations of Portland's music scene, going from the de facto homebase of Portland's pre-millennial indie-rock crowd to an unlikely IDM/EDM hang in the 2000s, before being revamped in 2008 into a New Portland beer hall and unlikely patio DJ hub—hosting international hip-hop night the Do-Over."[2]
History
The building was built in 1951 and opened as a breakfast café for produce dockworkers in 1953; it was also a barbershop at one point.[3] Produce Row originally opened in 1953 as a breakfast café for the produce dockworkers.[4]
Mike McMenamin had worked as a sandwich maker in college and was interested in a career in the food industry; after graduating from Oregon State University with a degree in political science in 1974, he and two college friends bought the landmark Produce Row Café, which was Portland's warehouse and wholesale district.[5] The brothers sold "The Row" to the employees in 1978.[6]
It was purchased by Alan Davis in the 2000s. In 2014, Produce Row closed after operating for more than forty years.[7][8]
In 2015, Davis sold Produce Row to Josh Johnston and James Hall, who reopened the restaurant and bar in May 2015.[9]
The restaurant participated in Portland's Dumpling Week in 2026.[10]
