Below, you’ll find their picks for late-night eats, which are shockingly hard to come by in Portland (and yet the dive-bar fried chicken couldn’t sound better); excellent cocktails, un-shockingly very easy to come by in Portland (we’re making a beeline to the sunken bar at tiki lounge Hale Pele…right after we check out the rare bottles at Scotch Lodge and natty wines at Sardine Head); splurge-worthy menus; and the dish you can’t leave town without trying. Spoiler alert: This last one was the hardest for everyone to answer, because, well, the options are just that good. I think Expatriate has the best cheeseburger in the city, or at least one of them. They call it the American Standard, and it’s really simple. You actually get two of them to an order—they’re a little bit bigger than sliders—with just ketchup, mustard, onion, and American cheese on these nice, tiny, soft buns.
