# Food & Dining search demand in Portland THE SEARCH LEDGER · PORTLAND, OREGON · FOOD & DINING Every month Portland types 2,525,010 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/portland/food-dining#colophon) 699 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Portland metro, Sep 8, 2026 2,525,010 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Portland metro, Sep 8, 2026 $1.5M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.22 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Portland metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Portland searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in AUG and lowest in FEB. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 65, February 63, March 73, April 73, May 85, June 86, July 96, August 100, September 75, October 77, November 74, December 74. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Portland — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Portland pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 699 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“apizza scholls portland”** at $2.70. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 1,220,000 | $0.42 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | coffee shops near me | 165,000 | $0.31 | 0 | transactional | | 3 | breakfast near me | 165,000 | $0.34 | 23 | transactional | | 4 | bars near me | 135,000 | $0.39 | 0 | transactional | | 5 | pizza near me | 110,000 | $1.19 | 12 | transactional | | 6 | portland restaurants | 27,100 | $0.79 | 46 | commercial | | 7 | city grill portland | 27,100 | $0.30 | | branded | | 8 | ox restaurant portland | 22,200 | $0.35 | 11 | commercial | | 9 | ken's bakery portland | 18,100 | $0.29 | 7 | commercial | | 10 | ken's pizza portland | 18,100 | $0.46 | 7 | commercial | | 11 | apizza scholls portland | 14,800 | $2.70 | | branded | | 12 | south park restaurant portland | 12,100 | $0.26 | 8 | commercial | | 13 | jake's grill portland | 12,100 | $0.46 | | branded | | 14 | stepping stone cafe portland | 12,100 | $0.86 | 0 | commercial | | 15 | cascadia bakery portland | 9,900 | $0.33 | 15 | commercial | | 16 | brunch pdx | 9,900 | $0.46 | 7 | commercial | | 17 | best restaurants portland | 9,900 | $0.88 | 13 | commercial | | 18 | best pdx restaurants | 9,900 | $0.75 | 10 | commercial | | 19 | breakfast in portland oregon | 9,900 | $0.31 | 15 | commercial | | 20 | chiyo sushi portland | 9,900 | $1.58 | 0 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Portland metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Portland food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 1,220,000/mo · $0.42 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 Elmasry Halal Egyptian Cuisine 4.6★ 817 - 2 Abu Omar Gyros & Shawarma 4.3★ 754 - 3 King of the Cajun 4.7★ 15 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 pdx.eater.com - 2 yelp.com - 3 ubereats.com - 4 reddit.com - 5 opentable.com pizza near me 110,000/mo · $1.19 CPC · difficulty 12 MAP PACK - 1 PizzaSlut 4.2★ 325 - 2 Fast Times 4.5★ 101 - 3 Silver Dollar Pizza Co 4★ 480 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 roventepizzeria.com LOCAL - 2 yelp.com - 3 locations.pizzahut.com - 4 tripadvisor.com - 5 ubereats.com Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Portland metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Portland The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse | 4.7 ★ | 16,951 | Brazilian | YES | | #2 | Luc Lac Vietnamese Kitchen | 4.4 ★ | 6,885 | Asian | YES | | #3 | Sizzle Pie | 4.3 ★ | 3,578 | Pizza | YES | | #4 | Huber's Cafe | 4.6 ★ | 3,378 | American | YES | | #5 | Southpark Seafood | 4.4 ★ | 2,980 | Seafood | YES | | #6 | Departure Restaurant + Lounge | 4.3 ★ | 2,608 | Restaurant | YES | | #7 | Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub | 4.4 ★ | 2,551 | Restaurant | YES | | #8 | Dante's | 4.4 ★ | 2,358 | Pizza | YES | | #9 | Baby Doll Pizza | 4.6 ★ | 2,297 | Pizza | YES | | #10 | Apizza Scholls | 4.6 ★ | 2,270 | Pizza | YES | | #11 | Melting Pot | 4.3 ★ | 2,229 | Fondue | YES | | #12 | Escape From New York Pizza | 4.5 ★ | 2,189 | Pizza | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Portland metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Portland searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. city grill portland 27,100/mo apizza scholls portland 14,800/mo jake's grill portland 12,100/mo mother's bistro portland 8,100/mo mad greek deli portland 5,400/mo bamboo grill portland 4,400/mo best coffee portland 3,600/mo extracto coffee portland 2,400/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Portland metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Portland asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Portland food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are some must-eat restaurants in Portland? Where to have dinner in Salem, Oregon? What is the best restaurant in Portland, Oregon according to Yelp? What are the 10 best restaurants? What is the 2 hour rule for pizza? What's Portland's most iconic pizza place? Who has the best pizza deals out right now? Where can I find good pizza in Wilsonville, Oregon? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Portland metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Portland search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Portland, Oregon · Food & Dining · 699 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 699 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. 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