Matt's BBQ

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Matt's BBQ
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Food cart at Prost Marketplace, 2022
Matt's BBQ
Restaurant information
Food type Barbecue
City Portland
State Oregon
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 45°33′16″N122°40′33″W / 45.55435°N 122.67573°W / 45.55435; -122.67573
Website mattsbbqpdx.com

Matt's BBQ is a barbecue restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Boise neighborhood, in the United States. [1]

Contents

Sibling restaurant Matt's BBQ Tacos, also located in Portland, [2] opened in 2019.

History

In 2015, Matt Vicedomini opened his first food cart on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. [3] [4]

Matt's BBQ and its sibling restaurant Matt's BBQ Tacos closed temporarily in March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] Limited operations were restored in April. [6] [7]

Matt's BBQ Tacos

The sibling restaurant Matt's BBQ Tacos opened the 2019. [8] [9] The menu includes breakfast tacos. [10] Matt's BBQ Tacos initially operated as a food cart and relocated to Northeast Alberta Street. It began operating as a brick and mortar restaurant in November 2022. [11] [12] [13]

Matt's BBQ Tacos was named The Oregonian 's 2019 Cart of the Year, [14] and was featured on the Netflix series Street Food in 2022. [15] It was included in The Infatuation 's 2024 list of Portland's best restaurants. [16]

Reception

In 2017, Martin Cizmar of Willamette Week wrote, "Fact: Matt's BBQ Has the Best Brisket and Ribs in Portland". [17]

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