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| Thơm Portland | |
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 The restaurant's exterior, 2025 | |
 Interactive map of Thơm Portland | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | August 2021 (2021-08) |
| Food type | Vietnamese |
| Location | 3039 Northeast Alberta Street,Portland,Multnomah,Oregon, 97211, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°33′33″N122°38′02″W / 45.5592°N 122.6340°W /45.5592; -122.6340 |
| Seating capacity | 10 |
| Website | thom |
Thơm Portland, or simplyThơm, is aVietnamese restaurant inPortland, Oregon, United States.
Thơm (which means "smells good")[1] is aVietnamese restaurant innortheast Portland'sConcordia neighborhood, specializing inpho.[2]Portland Monthly'sKaren Brooks has described the restaurant, which has a seating capacity of 10, as "tiny" and "casual". She wrote, "The feel is of stepping into a hidden studio in a mid-century home—blonde wood everywhere, painterly shades of green, a trio of hangingIsamu Noguchi Akari light sculptures, and customized wood speakers, four of them, strategically placed around the room."[3] The menu has included Phở Bo (beef noodle), Phở Chay (vegan phở), Bún Thịt Nướng (barbecue pork noodles), and Cơm Gà (chicken and rice), vermicelli, and rice plates.[3][4]
Brothers Jimmy and Johnny Le opened Thơm in August 2021, in a space which previously housed The Big Egg and Sugar Cube.[3]
In 2021, Michael Russell ofThe Oregonian called Thơm the "second-wave Vietnamese restaurant Portland has been waiting for".[5] He included Thơm in a list of Portland's best new restaurants[6][7] and the bún thịt nướng in an overview of the year's "most memorable" dishes, writing:
The phở is great. So is the five-spice chicken and rice. But my favorite thing to eat at chef Jimmy Le's new four-dish Northeast Portland restaurant is the bún thịt nướng, a bowl of 'dad’s grilled pork' served over slick rice noodles with pickles and nước chấm. Yes, you’ve had this dish before — you can get it at the airport! — just never with pork this sweet and juicy.[8]
Karen Brooks included Thơm inPortland Monthly's Best Restaurants list.[9]Brooke Jackson-Glidden included the restaurant inEater Portland's 2022 overview of recommended eateries on Alberta.[10]
