Top Best Italian Restaurants in Hillsboro

"A rush of indie glamour greets you at the door: marble, grandma curtains, banquettes as soft as Italian bomber jackets, rock ’n’ roll. The menu pays homage to the Italian sensibility: great ingredients, simply prepared, pastas to wood-charred breads heaped with deliciousness. But everything is channeled through the imagination of owner/chef Joshua McFadden, a national vegetable star (and one of our 2017 Chefs of the Year), with his own cache of ingredients, produce intuition, and flavor combinations."

"If you're looking for a romantic spot to take your honey as your eyes lovingly meet over a plate of fresh pasta, this is it. The beautiful Gothic interior is complete with caged chandeliers, gilded mirrors that look like something out of Versailles, and plenty of romantic candlelight to set the mood. Outside of achieving perfect mood lighting, chef/owner and Rome native Simone Savaiano manages to hit the nail on the head with elegant, sophisticated Italian fare that instantly transports you to Italy."

"Mucca Osteria$$-$$$1022 SW MorrisonPortland, OR 97205RESERVATIONS(503) 227-5521inquiries@muccaosteria.comHOURS: Monday - Saturday, 5 - 10pm (dinner only). Mucca Osteria is one of my favorite date night spots in Portland, and it's been entirely too long since my husband and I have had a date night here. You can read my previous restaurant review of Mucca Osteria here."

"Mucca was opened by a native of Rome and focuses on traditional Italian cuisine. Like the other restaurants on this list, the emphasis is on preparing the food with local sustainable ingredients. Try the tasting menu consisting of 6-courses for $75 to get an idea of what the chef can do."

"Hawthorne’s no-frills pizza cafe stills emerges as one of the town's best pies. Brian Spangler shows respect for his dough, refusing to overload his crisp, quick-fired crusts with more toppings than they can handle. Thankfully, there's no need for DIY concoctions given the pizzeria's meticulous equation of sauce, fresh mozzarella, pecorino romano, and, in the case of the Pizza Amore, salty capicola scattered on top."

"With a reception as warm as a warden greeting a recidivist, Apizza wins no atmosphere awards. Still, for pizza theologists, it’s a temple. Owner Brian Spangler channels New York’s Italian-American coal-oven shops through an Oregon baker’s avid heart."

"A wildly popular authentic Italian restaurant, you might expect Nostrana to be a generic house of pasta, but while you’ll always find three or four on the menu, the focus is more on Northern Italian cuisine and pizza. I go here for the house charcuterie, the radicchio salad, the halibut and the seasonal thin crunchy Italian pizza – for me, the simple ones are the best choices. Nostrana is not cheap – by the time you have antipasti, salad, and pasta or pizza you are looking at $50 or more per person, but judging by the crowds most people think it’s worth it."

"only instead of being greeted by copious amounts of animals, it's the smell of pizza gently cooking away in wood-burning ovens. Against the backdrop of immensely high ceilings in a former grocery store amidst gentle chatter is the vision of Italy of six-time James Beard Award finalist chef Cathy Whims. Whims’ faithful renditions of aged steaks, pizzas, and pasta are so good that they’re able to transport anyone to a land far, far away, where you're suddenly riding in a gondola while stuffing your face full of profiteroles..."

"Pizza , Pasta ,  Italian"

"Gumba's fresh food is so good it's hard to believe it's just a food cart. In fact, one visit here may change the way you view food carts forever. Their menu changes often to reflect the chef's creativity, but their hand-cut pasta dishes are permanent fixtures on the menu."

"Alberta in Concordia, the pasta shop and Italian spot is the highest-rated Italian restaurant in Portland, boasting five stars out of 252 reviews on Yelp."

"Giuseppe's is the authentic Italian restaurant you must experience.great service old Italian style decor and soup or salad doesn't make a difference... (503) 669-8767Order online. Superb681 Reviews4.7"

"La Buca is a welcoming, family-friendly Italian restaurant located in northeast Portland. The restaurant specializes in paninis and traditional pasta dishes, but several meat and fish entrees are also available. Some of the more popular options include the chicken Caesar panini, the puttanesca pasta, and the slow-roasted pork with caramelized onions and peas."

"This sweet neighborhood cafe on SE 28th and Burnside serves up great Italian food with a friendly staff. Along with excellent service, you can expect outdoor heated seating set apart from the street with wide planter boxes. Kids will enjoy their own menu with pasta and veggie choices, and parents will enjoy the affordability—and the wine!"

"Chef Tony Meyers is the “product of a Sicilian grandmother who showed him around the kitchen,” so that probably tells you all you need to know about the food here, but we'll go on. Serratto takes pleasure in cooking up Italian and Mediterranean fare, and does so with flair. The restaurant in itself is huge, with a near-obscenely sized bar and appropriately sized wine list to match, and is constantly abuzz with the sound of low volume chatter emanating from the families dining within."

"Serratto is a lively and elegant neighborhood restaurant serving authentic and innovative dishes from Italy, France and the greater Mediterranean region. The menu, which changes seasonally, is built around a commitment to using natural meats, the freshest seafood, and locally grown fruits and vegetables. All their portions here are generous."

"Oh yes, if you love Mediterranean and Italian flavors and are in the mood for pasta or wood fire personal pizzas, this is a great spot around 23rd Ave. When french onion soup is on the menu at Serratto, don’t pass it up. There’s usually a wood fired pizza of the day and plenty of delicious soups, salads and apps to try."

"Sitting at the crossroads of North and Northeast Portland, Park the Carts offers a variety of options, including several Black-owned carts, as well as indoor and outdoor seating. Sample a rotating menu of Hawaiian classics from the acclaimed Grind Wit Tryz or go for the melt-in-your-mouth barbecue from Premium Smokehouse PDX. If a classic—but by no means ordinary—burger is your jam, then Union Burger will not disappoint."

"Park the Carts is your one-stop destination in North Portland for some of the best Northwest cuisine in the city, from savory BBQ to sassy Thai delicacies. No matter what you order, cool down at their K-Pub, which has a variety of beer and soft drinks. Park the Carts has ample seating inside and out, plus live music on select weekends!"

"The family who owns this long-established chain also runs their own breweries, historic hotels, music venues, craft coffee shops, and even a movie-theater-plus-pub, located all over the state. Even though it was only established in the 1970s, it’s still one of the top 50 largest craft breweries in the U.S. You can even take tours of its many breweries throughout Oregon and Washington."

"An exciting and ever bubbling nightclub in this fantastic city, CC Slaughter is a place of everlasting fun. With its impressive features, including a large, spacious dance floor, live DJ performances every night, weekly drag shows, daily happy hour drinking, drag queen bartenders, and one of Portland’s most popular hosts – Queen Bolivia Carmichaels. Opening every day when the clock strikes 3 in the afternoon, this club is a sanctuary for fun seekers, party lovers, and people just looking to drink and dance."

"This popular club appeals to a slightly younger crowd of queers and their allies, who come to dance and take Jell-O shots. After a long hiatus that seemed like it may be permanent, CC Slaughters is back open, with extensive outside seating, dancing indoors, Friday night drag shows, and snacks like jalapeño poppers. Check out the bar’s Facebook page for more event details."

"CC Slaughters in Old Town has been a gay-bar standby since the early ’80s, drawing in people from the entire Pacific Northwest region with its LGBTQ events. Depending on the day, drag nights, all-request dance parties and obligatory Pride month bashes invite visitors and residents alike to celebrate the Rose City’s LGBTQ culture."

"So have organic gummi bears, gluten-free animal crackers, Pinkleton’s Curious Caramel Corn, and crushed chocolate-gobbed cookies from Portland’s lauded Bakeshop. Carefully curated toppings star at Eb & Bean, an artisan, soft-serve frozen yogurt pioneer that features the milk of happy, co-op cows, one table (communal), and blackboard shout-outs to local purveyors. Dessert fiends are already hooked on the aptly named “Tart” fro-yo, squiggled beneath a brisk blast of marionberry compote and the wild crunch of oat streusel."

"In 2014, Elizabeth Nathan ignored all the signs of a dying trend and jumped feet-first into opening a fro-yo shop. A passionate home baker who studied in the pastry program at the Bellouet Conseil in Paris and trained with Martine Lambert, the doyenne of French ice cream, Nathan banked on her belief that "a better frozen yogurt experience was possible." She was spot on. Eb & Bean isn’t like all the rest—so much so it was almost a completely different beast, which is why it’s managed to not only hang on, but thrive."

"The froyo from Eb and Bean has taken the city by storm the last few years. The swirling cones of goodness come in fantastic flavors (dairy or non-dairy, without artificial sweeteners, flavors, preservatives, or corn syrup). It’s then topped with seasonal, all-natural goodies, many from local Oregon companies."

"Cool Moon Ice Cream is Portland’s mainstay for exotic ice cream flavors as well as those of a more traditional background. The shop offers an intricate blend of rosewater and Kulfi, but on the other hand, will provide classics like the standard Birthday Cake flavor. Cool Moon Ice Creams are all handmade in their own kitchen and they’re made with natural ingredients, like cane sugar for sweetness."

"Don’t overlook this modern and vibrant shop in the heart of the Pearl District across from Jamison Square. Cool Moon Ice Cream offers a wide array of flavors, from your everyday vanilla (but there are four rotating vanilla flavors!) to Kulfi, made with pistachio, cardamom and rosewater. All of their ice cream is made on site in the store kitchen from 100 percent natural ingredients."

"The flavors are all hand-crafted in the store kitchen and made with 100% natural ingredients. Though a smaller operation, Cool Moon has a “life list” of nearly 200 flavors, with 26 available at any given time."