Restaurant List
Listings marked “Restaurant verified ✅” have identified any menu items that use plastic (most do not respond to my inquiry). Please reach out via the contact form if you have suggestions of restaurants to add!
What’s compostable and recyclable in Portland? Most plastic containers currently end up in the landfill, and “compostable” containers can’t be composted by Portland Metro— they require high-heat processing centers and will only contaminate your compost bin. Only cardboard pizza boxes can go into the compost. You can put rinsed aluminum foil and round plastic soup containers (but not lids) into your blue recycling bin.
- Paper bowls with plastic lids.
- Uses plastic containers for take-out, but you can bring your own containers if you order there and wait
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Paper packaging except for salsas/sauce ramekins
- Restaurant verified ✅
- No plastic is ever used, cocktails to-go in reusable glass bottles.
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Our ramekins for dressing and sauce are plastic, as well as to-go drinks.
- Paper bowls with plastic lids.
- Ya Hala lids are plastic, and they use a round container that is paper but with plastic film. But their take out boxes are entirely paper and compostable.
- Restaurant verified ✅
- We use hard plastic for our vegan yogurt and cream cheese, sell glass jars of kraut with a plastic lid, and use plastic cups for togo drinks.
- Sushi is served in paper containers with plastic lids
- Compostable paper boxes, may use plastic ramekins
- All paper containers now, no more plastic lids!
- Sushi is served in paper containers with plastic lids
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Soup comes in a plastic container, as well as plastic 4oz portion cups for salad dressings and sauces
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Soup comes in plastic containers
- Can bring your own containers if you order there and wait, else takeout is in paper packaging
- Can request compostable paper containers, else they serve in Ecobox (paper with plastic lining)
- Restaurant verified ✅
- All packaging is plastic-free, and you can bring your own paper grocery bag for takeout!
- Paper bowls with plastic lids.
- Uses plastic containers for take-out, but you can bring your own containers if you order there and wait
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Plastic free (except for cold drinks cups). Backyard-compostable straws, Huskee cups made from coffee husks available for sale.
- Sushi is served in paper containers with plastic lids
- Compostable paper boxes
- All paper containers now, no more plastic lids!
- Restaurant verified ✅
- We serve our ginger and wasabi sometimes in plastic to go containers. So if someone wanted a plastic free order they should specify that they want ginger and wasabi in our paper containers. Also we use soy packets for our take out orders so it’s helpful if the customer has their own. Miso soup, fish roe, and creamy Scallops also come in a container with a plastic lid as well.
- Restaurant verified ✅
- We are a zero waste restaurant! Our to-go packaging primarily consists of waxed paper and non-polycoated paper boxes. We use glass jars for pantry items like our bone broth. There is, however, a supply chain shortage for mason jars, and as a result we use standard deli containers for some pantry items, made from PP plastic. The containers we use are standard sized, washable and reusable. We hope that our customers are able to use the containers for food storage in their own pantry.
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Sauce containers, milkshake cups and soup lids are plastic
- Compostable paper boxes, may use plastic ramekins
- Bowls have compostable containers with plastic lids. Other items may use paper boxes.
- Restaurant verified ✅
- The only plastic that we use are: soup container lid, sandwich bag that we put the bean sprout in, and the togo drink cup.
- Update 2/7/22: someone has reported that they use plastic takeout containers unless you specifically request non-plastic packaging!
- Uses plastic containers for take-out, but you can bring your own containers if you order there and wait (when they are not too busy)
- Paper containers except for liquid items, which use plastic lids
- Paper bowls with plastic lids.
- Restaurant verified ✅
- No plastic packaging used except for microgreens salad
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Fish & chips window uses paper boxes
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Mostly compostable paper takeout boxes with plastic used in some small containers, straws and plastic lining inside soup containers.
- Sushi is served in paper containers with plastic lids
- Restaurant verified ✅
- All togo containers are reusable!
- Pastas come in plastic-lined paper boxes. In pre-COVID times, reusable containers were accepted for take-out.
- Looks like the take-out was plastic-free except for small sauce containers!
- Food cart: baklava uses plastic packaging but meals are in paper containers
- Paper bowls with plastic lids.
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Soup comes in plastic containers
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Sauce containers, milkshake cups and soup lids are plastic
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Poke is served in paper containers with plastic lids.
- 1 oz plastic ramekins for ginger, wasabi, and soy as well as the lids on the miso soups
- Restaurant verified ✅
- Accompanying hot sauce sides come in small plastic containers, hummus and baba ganoush in plastic tubs
- Sushi is served in paper containers with plastic lids
- Compostable paper containers
- Restaurant verified ✅
- All paper packaging
- Uses mostly paper packaging