61 Best Restaurants in The Oregon Coast, Oregon

Before or after taking an oceanfront walk along nearby Nye Beach, warm up with a piping-hot espresso, a croissant breakfast sandwich, or a bowl of tomato-basil soup at this funky bakery café with a cozy, shabby-chic dining area. The space doubles as a clothing and jewelry boutique. 

"Joyful work, delicious food, and strong community" is the rallying cry of this family-friendly, worker-owned cooperative known for everything from huevos scorcheros (poached eggs with rice, beans, cheese, and salsa) and organic, handcrafted breads to a variety of foods using local, fair trade, and organic ingredients. The offerings change with the seasons, but there are always vegan and gluten-free options, and the inviting dining room's big windows and children's play area overlook downtown and the Columbia River in the distance.

In the same complex as the Cannery Pier Hotel, this stylish bi-level space has magnificent views of the river and bridge to Washington. Inside, high ceilings are supported by ancient fir timbers, and an extensive menu focuses on creative seafood and meat grills, including roasted, spice-encrusted duck breast with orange marmalade glaze, and seared wild local salmon with an arugula-strawberry salad and a star anise–balsamic vinaigrette. You'll also find more affordable burgers, pastas, and vegetarian options. 

Freshly caught seafood is the mainstay of this convivial restaurant in a creaky-floored, Victorian-era storefront in Florence's Old Town. Whether you opt for patio dining during summer or lounge seating in winter, the eclectic fare of pastas, burgers, salads, and seafood-packed stews is consistently well prepared, and a live jazz band provides some foot-tapping fun many evenings. For a light snack, try the peel-and-eat shrimp and a cup of chowder in the restaurant's stylish Zebra Bar.

Head to this cozy, warmly lit, wood-paneled tavern for mouthwatering barbecue and smoked meats, and at refreshingly reasonable prices in this town where high-end dining dominates. The shareable starters include nachos with smoked cheese and pulled pork and smoked chicken wings, while main dishes run the gamut from brisket sandwiches with smoked mozzarella to sampler platters featuring smoked sausage, cured duck, salamis, and other delicious treats. 

The warm lighting, massive fireplace, marble-top bar, and glass-brick transom windows impart a cosmopolitan vibe to this high-ceilinged downtown bistro that turns out sophisticated, contemporary dinner fare. Highlights include bourbon-pecan Coho salmon and braised short ribs with andouille and white cheddar grits, but there's also a terrific bar menu of lighter bites—blackened-rockfish tacos, seafood mac and cheese, and the like.

This cozy café inside a 19th-century cannery building on historic Pier 39 has big windows overlooking the river—you can always take your well-crafted espresso or latte with you for a stroll around this fascinating pier with its free Hanthorn Cannery Museum. Open until midafternoon each day, Coffee Girl also serves tasty quiches, pastries, soups, bagels with lox, and grilled panini sandwiches.

This quirky and casual hole-in-the-wall in Port Orford excels at what it does: good old-fashioned fish-and-chips. With everything from shrimp to cod to clam strips paired with fries, the Crazy Norwegians serve it up with a side of pasta salad or coleslaw. Dine in at wooden tables with the mostly family crowd or take it to go to nearby Battle Rock Park.

Start your morning on the right note with a latte and one—or a few—pastries from this cheerful downtown bakery by the Necanicum River, about a 10-minute walk from the beach. The buttermilk biscuit breakfast sandwiches are delicious and customizable—add ham, bacon, Brie, Dijon mustard, a fried egg, or several other toppings. 

This funky, convivial restaurant with affordable, basic overnight accommodations on the upper floor is a reliable bet for all three meals of the day; it's also great for watching live music below a ceiling full of umbrellas, with views of the Yachats River and ocean. Family-friendly and lively, the Drift Inn features fresh razor clams, halibut fish-and-chips, juicy steaks, wood-fired pizzas, and other well-prepared American fare.

Bring your appetite to dine at this charming old-world restaurant that's filled with mementos and artwork and specializes in the rich and comforting cuisine of Bosnia. The specialty here are filo-dough pies (called pitas in Bosnia) with slow-cooked, complexly seasoned fillings like spinach, farmers cheese, and eggs, or flame-roasted lamb), but stews and salads also feature prominently on the menu. There's also an extensive list of beers from the countries that make up the former Yugoslavia. 

Overlooking the bustling boat basin in the small village of Garibaldi, about 10 miles up the coast from Tillamook, this unpretentious restaurant with both outdoor picnic table seating and an inviting dining room warmed by a fireplace excels in barbecue but actually offers up a pretty diverse menu of comfort food, ranging from poke bowls to burgers topped with goat cheese and blueberry sauce. From the smoker, the St. Louis–style ribs are a house specialty, but don't overlook the pulled pork (best enjoyed in a Cubano sandwich).

This bare-bones, counter-service barbecue joint serves up diabolically delicious, house-brined and smoked meaty fare along with sides of "dirty" fries with decadent toppings (sweet Thai chili sauce, wasabi-garlic, and so on). The burgers and sandwiches are delicious, but if you have the appetite for it, consider the sampler of pulled pork, smoked chicken breast, baby back ribs, brisket, and tri-tip with a couple of sides.

This airy and bright café uses the cod caught by the local dories for its fish sandwiches, and everything served during its popular breakfasts and lunches is made fresh and from scratch, including delicious breads, biscuits, and pastries. Favorite dishes include blueberry-buttermilk pancakes and hearty egg scrambles with pesto and tomatoes at breakfast, and locally caught albacore tuna melts and veggie baguettes at lunch.

Located about 20 miles south of Florence in Reedsport, this homey, family-friendly restaurant—think log-cabin-style building decorated with mounted Oregon fish—is a great place to fuel up before playing on the nearby dunes. The food here is straightforward and traditional, from marionberry-stuffed French toast and seafood omelets at breakfast to prosciutto-wrapped prawns and wild game (a mixture of elk, bison, wild boar, and Wagyu) in the evening, and the use of fresh, often local ingredients results in some of the healthiest and tastiest fare along this stretch of the coast.

This friendly gastropub in Old Town Florence—a couple of blocks north of the riverfront—specializes in locally sourced, creatively prepared American fare and offers a well-chosen list of Oregon beers on tap, plus local spirits, iced teas, and kombucha. Stop by for lunch to enjoy the lightly battered albacore fish and hand-cut fries with tartar sauce, or a cheeseburger topped with Rogue River blue and served with marinated vegetables and local greens.

Well-prepared Pacific Rim–fusion fare and fun tiki-inspired cocktails complete with paper umbrellas, are the draw at this hip, supercasual spot festooned with surfboards, Hawaiian shirts, and tropical artwork. Boldly flavored dishes like Hawaiian-style loco moco, pineapple teriyaki chicken, and Spam musubi may have you feeling like you've been airlifted to Maui, and there's tasty sushi, too.

His lordship has a lot going for him: a cliff-top setting, a comfortable and spacious dining area in a dramatic contemporary building, sunsets visible through picture windows overlooking Face Rock Beach, and occasional live music on weekends. The upscale menu features plenty of steaks and local seafood; try the nut-crusted halibut, Pacific lingcod with a coconut curry sauce, or wild prawns with garlic butter and sherry. 

Sustainable, line-caught wild seafood—including albacore, cod, halibut, and, when in season, Dungeness crab—straight from the owner's boat is the draw at this festive weathered restaurant with colorful indoor and outdoor seating areas. Fish-and-chips of all stripes, including clam and salmon, are served, but the fish tacos and a sinful dish called slumgullion—clam chowder baked with cheese and bay shrimp—are the most popular choices. You can also buy fresh fish to go. There's a second location 15 miles up U.S. 101 in Seal Rock.

Next to the little post office in Charleston Marina, this canary-yellow food stand dispenses delicious burgers, fish-and-chips, seafood tacos, and other freshly made short-order fare, which you can enjoy at one of the outdoor tables or take with you for a picnic at one of the beach parks nearby. Specialties include Tsunami burger with jalapeños, grilled onions, bacon, and blue cheese, and the clam roll sandwich topped with a calamari dressing—be sure to order a side of the crispy garlic fries. 

Late in 2022, this wildly popular Italian restaurant and its neighboring sister restaurant, the Firehouse Grill, restructured and combined into one bustling, inviting space—called Nonni's Bistro—that features hearty breakfast and lunch fare, including fluffy biscuits with gravy, salmon Benedicts, cinnamon French toast, and meat-loaf scrambles early in the day. At night, tuck into well-prepared Italian classics like lasagna Bolognese and linguine in a garlicy white wine sauce tossed with local crab, salmon, and prawns.

The kitchen at this upbeat, contemporary gastropub with a welcoming outdoor balcony, from which you can see the ocean in the distance, stands out for its commitment to locally sourced produce and seafood and an ambitious craft-cocktail selection. The eclectic, elevated comfort fare is filling and affordable—consider panko-crusted shrimp with a banh mi dipping sauce and the fried chicken sandwich with blue cheese buffalo sauce and pub fries.

This small, homey café serves cups of drip-on-demand coffee—you select the roast and they grind and brew it on the spot. Beans are roasted on-site, muffins and breads are freshly baked, and a view of the Siuslaw River can be savored from the deck out back.

In this rustic-elegant space with handmade redwood tables and local paintings set directly on the Nestucca River, dine on locally sourced seafood and grills, including pan-roasted line-caught coho salmon with smoked-potato gnocchi, seared wild mushrooms, and sage-brown butter; and grilled New York steak with crispy leeks and whole-grain mustard jus. Note the selection of barrel-aged sour beers and local ciders.

In a rustic 1915 building on the beach, this café, brightened with candlelight and fresh flowers, sits opposite Three Arch Rock, a favorite resting spot for sea lions and puffins. The seafood-intensive menu includes fresh and simple preparations of halibut, scallops, and salmon with lemon-herb butter, oyster burgers, and shrimp melts, and the meal's not complete without one of the homemade desserts.

The thoughtful prix-fixe menu at this offbeat restaurant in the outstanding Sylvia Beach Hotel changes nightly, but there's a good chance one of the handful of entrée options will be fresh local seafood, perhaps a moist grilled salmon fillet in a Dijonnaise sauce, served with sautéed vegetables, fresh-baked breads, and rice pilaf; a decadent dessert is also included. Note that dinners, which start at 6 pm, are quite leisurely, so young children may get restless.  Call for reservations and daily menu; you can't reserve online.

Serving consistently well-prepared modern seafood fare, Tidal Raves uses local and sustainable fish and shellfish in preparations inspired by places far and near. A few steaks and vegetarian dishes round out the lengthy menu, which also includes such local classics as Dungeness crab cakes, panko-crusted razor clams, and rockfish and shrimp green curry with steamed peanut rice, and the inviting bi-level dining room has tall windows overlooking the ocean.

One of the best features of this cheerful café in sleepy Nehalem village, just down the road from Manzanita, is that the kitchen offers just about anything you might be in the mood for at breakfast and lunch, from fancy egg dishes and comforting cinnamon French toast to Cobb salads and burgers on homemade brioche buns—it's a remarkably varied menu for such a small place. There's also a full bar with a great selection of drinks and craft beer and Oregon wine as well.

The dazzling beach and ocean views, especially at sunset, are just part of the story at this casually elegant restaurant at the Surfsand Resort; it's also a reliable if very traditional destination for a leisurely feast of local seafood and steaks, such as panko-breaded Pacific razor clams with rémoulade, seared Chinook salmon with risotto, and the prodigious 22-ounce "tomahawk" rib-eye steak with sweet potato–andouille hash. There's a nice list of Oregon wines, and breakfast—featuring delicious crab cake Benedicts and cinnamon roll French toast—is offered daily.