Providore Fine Foods is a vibrant culinary marketplace in Portland that blends European charm with Pacific Northwest flair, offering artisanal goods, gourmet groceries, and a delightful sense of community.
"It is extremely difficult to beat the deli at Providore: Walking from one end of the deli counter to the other, one can stock up on fresh-baked bread from Little T American Baker, myriad pickles and charcuterie, one of the city’s best cheese selections, and an array of house deli salads. Add a full selection of local fruit, imported candies, and rare sodas and seltzers, and you’ve got an A-grade picnic going. Oregon Park is very close to Providore and is equipped with picnic tables." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"Providore Fine Foods Market is a veritable garden of culinary delights, where the highest quality cheeses, wines, oils and vinegars, produce, and proteins are at your fingertips. Perhaps the most exciting and somewhat secret feature of Providore is the tiny oyster counter tucked in the back, where you can sidle up to the bar and slurp fresh oysters to your heart’s content. The Flying Fish Oyster Bar’s happy hour specials — 50 cents off oysters, $1 off beer and wine — are worth it from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday." - Kara Stokes
"Likely Portland’s most popular high-end specialty market, Providore exudes luxury with its selection of high-quality imports and local goods. Fishmongers at the TwoXSea seafood counter wrap McFarland Springs trout for customers, who may also fill their basket with Revel Meat steaks and Pastaworks ravioli. Picnickers stop by the elaborate cheese and charcuterie counter, grabbing a few Little T baguettes and pre-made salads as accompaniment. And those stocking a pantry may end up nabbing a few cans of Spanish octopus or Sibeiho sambal off the market’s shelves. Providore also offers delivery and pickup for those who order online." - Janey Wong
"Part gourmet grocery, part food hall, part farmers market, Providore Fine Foods is an impeccably merchandised culinary Eden that grabs your attention from the get-go. In addition to the main grocery shelves of anchor tenant Pastaworks, which offer up everything from cut-to-order fresh pasta and delicate triple creams, to rare imported oils and passion fruit puree, the space houses a collective of purveyors, all at the top of their game. Flying Fish Company/The Meat Mongers sell sustainably sourced local seafood, meat, eggs, and dairy and acclaimed Southeast bakery Little T stocks just-baked breads and pastries. The fun’s not over once you’ve canvassed the entire shop—go out the back door, immediately turn left, step up to the bright-yellow Arrosto window, and order the half- or whole-bird chicken dinner, complete with juicy free-range rotisserie chicken basted in lemon-and-rosemary oil and sides of creamy Yukon Golds roasted in chicken drippings, perfectly bitter radicchio-and-escarole salad with lemon-anchovy dressing, and thick, springy fingers of fresh-baked focaccia from the Pastaworks bakery." - Jen Stevenson
Extremely high end provisions/deli/wine store with the best of everything. You'll be poor when you leave but eating/cooking like a king. Best cheese, salami, chips and chocolate selection in the city if you're looking to stock up on best road trip snacks. Also the only place I know that sells retail the Best Chips of All Time - Juanita's Chilipeno flavor tortilla chips.
