Bhuna (restaurant)

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Bhuna (restaurant)
Restaurant information
Food type Kashmiri (Indian)
Street address704 Northwest 21st Avenue
CityPortland
CountyMultnomah
StateOregon
Postal/ZIP Code97209
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 45°31′40″N122°41′39″W / 45.5279°N 122.6942°W / 45.5279; -122.6942

Bhuna is an Indian restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Northwest District, in the United States. [1] [2] [3] Established by chef Deepak Kaul in 2018, Bhuna has been described as the city's first Kashmiri restaurant. [4]

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Description

The Indian restaurant Bhuna operates on 21st Avenue in northwest Portland's Northwest District. Eater Portland has described the business as a "blue-tinged, window-lined" [5] and "sparsely decorated fast-casual spot". [6] The interior has blue-green walls and white subway tiles. [7]

Bhuna serves "Kashmiri soul food" such as rice bowls with kholrabi and collards with Kashmiri dried chilies, lamb rogan josh with black and green cardamom, and chickpea-fried calamari. [8] Among cocktails are negronis, old fashioneds, palomas, and rum lassis. [9]

History

Chef Deepak Kaul started Bhuna as a pop-up restaurant at Culmination Brewing in 2018, [10] [11] before moving into a brick and mortar space on 21st Avenue on October 17; [4] [12] the space had previously housed Dick's Kitchen. [13] [14] Like many restaurants, Bhuna operated via take-out at times during the COVID-19 pandemic. [15] In 2023, Bhuna celebrated its fifth anniversary by hosting a potluck party featuring dishes from other local chefs. [16] For Diwali, the restaurant hosted a candle- and lamp-lit dinner after sundown. The dining room had a shrine to the Hindu gods Ganesha and Lakshmi, and the menu included gulab jamun, kheer, cardamom chocolate chip cookies, and mango kulfi. [17]

Reception

Kaul won in the Chef of the Year category of Eater Portland's annual Eater Awards in 2018. [18] Nick Woo included the Chettinad chicken in the website's 2019 list of thirteen "stellar" curries in the city, [19] and Waz Wu recommended Bhuna in a 2021 overview of recommended restaurants for "standout" vegan curries. [20] Eater Portland's Brooke Jackson-Glidden included the masoor dal in a 2022 list of sixteen "sick day delivery standbys to order" in the city, [21] and Ron Scott included the business in a 2024 overview of "exceptional" Indian food in the Portland metropolitan area. [22]

In 2019, Willamette Week called Bhuna "a boon to the Portland area's small but vital group of worthwhile Indian restaurants", [23] and Portland Monthly said the restaurant had "the ambiance of a Chase Bank lobby, but don't let that stop you from sampling its simple, spice-laden bowls". [24] Krista Garcia included Bhuna in The Infatuation 's 2024 list of the city's best restaurants. [25]

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