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Restaurant information | |
Established | 2016 |
Owner(s) |
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Food type | Italian |
Street address | 1733 Northeast Alberta Street |
City | Portland |
County | Multnomah |
State | Oregon |
Postal/ZIP Code | 97211 |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 45°33′34″N122°38′50″W / 45.5594°N 122.6472°W |
Website | gumba-pdx |
Gumba Pasta Parlor, or simply Gumba, is an Italian restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. [1] Established in 2016, the business initially operated as a food cart. [2]
The Italian restaurant Gumba (pronounced "GOOM-bah") [3] operates in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood. Originally a food cart, the business now operates as a brick and mortar restaurant with an "airy, floral-but-industrial" dining room, according to Eater Portland . [4]
The menu includes pastas with ingredients such as burrata, egg yolk, lemon, shallots, and sumac, [3] as well as calamari with marinated chickpeas and pappardelle with braised beef short rib. [5] The restaurant has also served burrata with black pepper, fry bread, and olive oil, [6] as well as cannolis and eggplant caramel olive oil cake. [4] [5] The squid ink spaghettini has Manila clams, mussels, scallops, and cheese frico. [7]
Robin Brassaw and Jesse Martinez are the owners. [8] The duo started the business as a food cart in 2016 [9] and relocated to a pod called The Whale in August 2017. [10] Gumba became a brick and mortar establishment in 2020, [11] [12] operating in the space that previously housed Aviary. [13]
Brooke Jackson-Glidden included Gumba in Eater Portland's 2017 list of seventeen "date-worthy" restaurants open on Mondays. [4] She also included the business in a 2022 overview of restaurants with the best burrata in the metropolitan area. [6] The website's Janey Wong included the squid ink spaghettini in a 2024 overview of the city's best pasta dishes. [7] Gumba was also included in Eater Portland's 2025 overview of the city's best Italian restaurants. [5] Katherine Chew Hamilton included the business in the website's 2025 overview of recommended restaurants on Alberta Street. [8] Gumba ranked number 98 on Yelp's "Top 100 Places to Eat" list in 2023. [14] [15]