Gino's Restaurant and Bar

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Gino's Restaurant and Bar
Restaurant information
Established1996 (1996)
Food type
Location8051 Southeast 13th Avenue, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, 97202, United States
Coordinates 45°27′53″N122°39′11″W / 45.4648°N 122.6531°W / 45.4648; -122.6531
Website ginossellwood.com

Gino's Restaurant and Bar is an Italian / Italian-American bar and restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. Established in 1996, it operates in southeast Portland's Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood. [1]

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Description

The Italian / Italian-American restaurant Gino's operates in a century-old building previously home to Leipzig Tavern at the intersection of 13th and Spokane in southeast Portland's Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood. The interior has red-checkered tablecloths. The menu includes pastas, sandwiches and soups, salads, and steamed clams and mussels. [2] The restaurant has served cioppino, [3] chicken marsala, ravioli and rigatoni, and a Caesar salad. [4] [5] [6] The burrata is served with baguette, cured meat, and zucchini pickles. [7] The grass-fed beef steaks are from Painted Hills Ranch. [8] The ragu stew has beef, pepperoni, pork ribs, and tomatoes. [9]

History

Spouses Marc and Deb Accuardi opened Gino's in 1996. [9] [10] Wesley Berger has been the chef. [11] Lady Gaga ate at the restaurant in 2017. [12] [13]

Reception

In 2014, Matthew Singer of Willamette Week said Gino's "remains one of surprisingly few places in Portland doing traditional American-style Italian without pretension". [14] The Portland Mercury 's MJ Skegg said the restaurant served "the best Caesar in town" in 2015. [15] The newspaper's Andrea Damewood called Gino's "lovely and longstanding" in 2025. [16] In The Oregonian 's 2017 list of Portland's 10 best Italian restaurants, Michael Russell called Gino's "one of Portland's best-kept old-school Italian secrets, though not for its garlic shrimp, spaghetti vongole or dry-aged steaks so much as its wine list, a leather-bound book with a quasi-completist approach to Barolo". [17]

In 2022, Brooke Jackson-Glidden included Gino's in Eater Portland 's overview of the best burrata in the Portland metropolitan area. She described the business as a "Sellwood institution". [7] The website's Alex Frane and Janey Wong included Gino's in a 2023 list of recommended eateries in the neighborhood, calling the business "a longstanding member of Sellwood's dining scene" with "one of the most robust lists of Italian wines in the city". [18] Gino's was also included in Eater Portland's 2025 overview of the city's best Italian restaurants. The website said, "Gino's is some Old Portland realness. This Sellwood restaurant, almost always packed with locals, delivers heaping piles of pasta and other red sauce standards to tables in its dining room and wood-lined bar... And outside the world of pasta, seafood-packed cioppino is a favorite among the restaurant's decades-loyal regulars." [19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "This Kid Has Practically Grown Up at Gino's". Portland Monthly. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  2. ↑ Morris, Elizabeth; Morris, Mark; Jewell, Judy; McRae, W. C. (2007-02-26). Moon Oregon. Avalon Publishing. ISBN   978-1-56691-930-2.
  3. ↑ Jepsen, Sue (2016-06-18). "What are Portland's best Italian restaurants? Nominate your favorites". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  4. ↑ McCollom, Hollyanna (2019-05-14). Moon Portland. Avalon Publishing. ISBN   978-1-64049-368-1.
  5. ↑ Stevenson, Jen (2025-08-26). Portland Family Adventures, 2nd Edition: City Escapades, Day Trips, Weekend Getaways, and Itineraries for Fun-Loving Families. Blue Star Press. ISBN   978-1-63217-586-1.
  6. ↑ Rucker, Gabriel; Erickson, Meredith; Fortgang, Lauren; Fortgang, Andrew (2013-09-17). Le Pigeon: Cooking at the Dirty Bird [A Cookbook]. Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed. ISBN   978-1-60774-444-3.
  7. 1 2 Jackson-Glidden, Brooke (2022-08-10). "Where to Find Dreamy Burrata Around Portland". Eater Portland. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  8. ↑ "Ginos Restaurant & Bar | Restaurant Listing". Portland Monthly. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  9. 1 2 "Portland Italian Dining Restaurants for When You're Rewatching "Sopranos"". Willamette Week. 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  10. ↑ "Five Places to Visit in Portland, Ore. (Published 2019)". 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  11. ↑ "God Save the Chef!". Portland Monthly. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  12. ↑ Bamman, Mattie John (2017-10-18). "Lady Gaga Ate at Portland's Gino's Restaurant This Weekend". Eater Portland. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  13. ↑ "Is Lady Gaga Recording New Music In Portland?". Willamette Week. 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  14. ↑ "Gino's: Restaurant Guide 2014". Willamette Week. 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  15. ↑ Skegg, M. J. "Hail the Gino's Caesar". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  16. ↑ Damewood, Andrea. "Food Review: Sellwood Is Swimming in Red Sauce". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  17. ↑ Russell, Michael (2017-10-02). "Portland's 10 best Italian restaurants". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  18. ↑ Frane, Alex (2019-02-20). "Where to Imbibe and Dine in Sellwood and Westmoreland". Eater Portland. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
  19. ↑ "The Best Italian Restaurants in Portland". Eater Portland. 2018-07-18. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
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