This Southeast Powell food cart, in the John’s Marketplace pod, stuffs lightly blistered flatbread with well-seasoned halal lamb or little balls of falafel, joined by lettuce, tomato, pickles, olives, and tzatziki. The wraps are available with thinner saj or thicker pita, depending on the diner’s ideal bread-to-stuff ratio; regardless of the choice, these wraps are gargantuan with nice attention to detail, balancing zippy sauces with plenty of pops of brine or pickle. For dessert, an order of pistachio baklava is a must.

Downtown Portland’s Kafta House cart serves massive cone-shaped gyros stuffed with halal meats like lamb or chicken shawarma, hummus, lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, and onions, finished with a squiggle of house toum. The lamb is really the move here, retaining its juiciness with nice savory notes. The cart is a smart pick for tourists looking for a bite post-Powell’s.

Portland’s most famous Iraqi restaurant, Dar Salam serves its doughnut-shaped falafel and queema, a lamb stew with chickpeas, on both sides of the river. At its Alberta outpost, families sit under fun A-frames to eat slow-cooked lamb shanks accompanied by jammy eggplant stew or pickled mango salad. All of Dar Salam’s meats are organic and halal; with its various celebratory dishes, it’s a strong option for iftar.

Montavilla neighbors are all long familiar with Ya Hala, which has served Lebanese food on Stark Street for more than two decades. When looking to eat halal at Ya Hala, lamb is your safest bet — all of the lamb Ya Hala sources is halal — available as shawarma, in a kabob, or as kofta with shakshuka. The restaurant’s lemon chicken is also halal, which arrives juicy and tender with hummus, toum, cabbage salad, the garlicky potato dish batata harra, and grilled pita.

This Old Town Moroccan cafe serves nuanced tagines and powdered sugar-dusted chicken bastilla alongside shiny metal pots of mint tea. Kasbah sources halal meats for dishes like Moroccan kefta or Merguez lamb sausage, available as a tagine or a sandwich. The bastilla here is a must-order, flaky pastry giving way to a well-spiced chicken core.

Marrakesh is a Portland institution, known for its belly dance shows and prix fixe dinners of bastilla and tagine. Marrakesh sources halal meats for its dishes, from its chicken-prune tagine to its chicken-topped couscous. For a special iftar feast, bring a group and splurge on Marrakesh’s mechoui, a whole lamb cooked on a spit over a charcoal fire.