Moving to Beaverton...

kimby8804

My husband and I are moving from Bend to Beaverton at the end of the month.  Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for best places to eat, shop, or just any 'must see' places in the area. 

 

estherandgeoff2

Shopping: Washington Square Mall, Tanasbourne (depending on where in Beaverton you live), Bridgeport Village, downtown Portland. For groceries we have Fred Meyer, New Seasons, Trader Joes. Are you looking for anything in particular?

Eating: mostly downtown Portland though there are some decent restaurants in Beaverton. There are a few good ones such as Mingo.  

must-see places? It depends on what you're looking for. You have access to the Oregon coast in a 1.5 hour drive, 1 hour to Willamette Valley wine country, 1.5-2 hours to Mt. Hood and 1 hour to the Columbia River Gorge. 

kimby8804

Thank you for all the great tips on places!  I guess I was just looking for some great local spots to check out.  I am pretty familiar with the downtown Portland area, but still trying to navigate my way around Beaverton.  I know coming from Bend we have a lot of must-see local spots/festivals to check out.  

I just need to get out there and go exploring!  Just wanted to see if anyone had any advice on places that I should look into.  Thank you for all of your suggestions   

 

estherandgeoff2

I see. Def. check out the Beaverton Farmers Market while it's still going on. Five Guys Burgers on Walker and Murray has really good hamburgers and fries. There's also the Pita Pit near there. I don't actually live in Beaverton myself though.

Jeff & Em

Here are our favorite places to eat, so far:

Hall Street Grill

Siam Thai

Abhiruchi

Si Senor

There's also a McMenamin's close by, and we're looking forward to trying Wasabi.  We haven't found a good Chinese place yet.  Or at least one that delivers.  I think all of the places I listed above (minus McMen's) can be delivered using d-dish dot com. 

JeniLovesNeil

We love Si Senor on NW Cornell and Saltzman.  For good chinese we like Happy Panda on 185th and Walker.   Cedar Hills Crossing has an awesome frozen yogurt shop called Peachwave. 

 

bunchkie

Typhoon Thai is awesome and i think they have a restaurant there.  Also Bite of Beaverton is pretty cool.

kimby8804

Ooo I love Typhoon!  And McMennamin's.  We have both of those restaurants here in Bend, so it will be nice to have them there too.  Thank you for all of the amazing suggestions. 

We are starting to pack everything up and just finishing all of the papers.  It will be nice to enjoy the fall up there.  Can't wait!  Now for the job search....

Mrs.McGuire

We just moved to the area and we loved our meals at Si Senor for Mexican. We also at Chinese at Chiam and I am in love with the Egg Flour soup. YUM O! Sunrise Bagels is yummy for a light breakfast too!

PDX

decarli's is a good restaurant w/ a good happy hour and giovanni's is a good local italian place. there are a ton of great parks (summerlake and tualatin nature park are 2 favorites). there is a powells at cedar hills which isn't as good as the downtown one but is still great tualatin hills parks and rec district is amazing and has great facilities, sports teams, classes, etc.

EastLock

We recently found this bar that was really cool. Nice people, stiff drinks Maxwells on 185 n of Baseline in Beaverton/Aloha.

Not fancy (clean bathroom) but as far as local dives go this place has been great.