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Where to Dine on New Year's Day in Portland, Mapped

From hangover-recovery brunches, to hangover-recovery dinners

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After all the champagne, brunch is always a good idea on New Year's Day, and that goes double on year's like 2017, when it falls on a legit Sunday — the holiest of all brunch days. Find many of the city's best brunch options for New Year's Day 2017 on the map below, along with restaurants and bars open for lunch and dinner (Looking for New Year's Eve festivities? Head over to this map).

Here are some of the highlights: Ava Gene's will ring in 2017 by putting on its first-ever brunch; the North Mississippi saloon-meets-cocktail lounge, Interurban, will help you tackle the dog that bit you with a Mexican-inspired "Hangover Brunch"; Old Salt Marketplace is serving its usual, under-the-radar brunch menu, which means top-quality plates featuring meats from the in-house whole-animal butchery program (likely without much of a wait); and Screen Door will be doing it's usual first come, first serve brunch. Maybe the lines won't be as long on New Year's Day? Maybe?

The map aims to offer great recommendations in neighborhoods all across the city. Know a delicious spot we missed? Let your fellow eaters know in the comments below. (Note the points on this map guide are not ranked; rather, they're organized geographically.)

—Chad Walsh and Mattie John Bamman

—All photos by Dina Avila unless otherwise noted

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The Waiting Room

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Find $2 mimosas and comfort-food classics for brunch, followed by the restaurant's regular happy hour and dinner menus.

Mother's Bistro & Bar

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Headwaters

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Haven't been to chef Vitaly Paley's fourth restaurant — this one newly opened inside The Heathman Hotel? See what it's all about on NYD. The full menus will be available for brunch, happy hour, and dinner, with some holiday specials, too.

Punch Bowl Social

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You might think that the sound of rolling bowling balls and the crack of pins would be the last thing you’d want to hear the morning after NYE — or let’s face it, the afternoon after — but on NYD, PBS is a chill spot in an otherwise closed-down shopping mall. And it serves all-day fun: Down a couple of bloodys, bowl a few strikes, and then head to the movies at the mall’s cinema.

Q Restaurant & Bar

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Nel Centro

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Downtown Portland is easily this city’s bustlingest neighborhood, but on the holidays it’s as quiet as church mice. Follow the city center’s people-less streets to Nel Centro, which will be open for brunch from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Refortify yourself with a creamy Benedict, but don’t forget to de-fortify with a San Marzano bloody Mary or two.

Three Degrees

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Chef Lauro Romero will prepare brunch plates like Dungeness crab toast, raw hamachi with aji amarillo vinaigrette, buttermilk waffles, and smoked brisket hash, from 8 a.m. to noon. Sitting inside the Kimpton RiverPlace Hotel, Three Degrees comes with views of the Willamette River, too.

Interurban

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Screen Door

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Known for its lengthy lines and for the satisfying Southern plates at the end of them, Screen Door will open for brunch, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and dinner, starting at 5:30. It's first come, first serve, to get those fried chicken and waffles.

Ava Gene's

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The Woodsman Tavern

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On New Year's Day, The Woodsman will open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and from 5 to 10 p.m. This means you'll have the opportunity to not only settle in for a hearty supper, but it'll give you the chance to take your sweetheart out to an early morning champagne-and-oysters brunch.

Country Cat Dinnerhouse & Bar

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Old Salt Marketplace

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It'll be business as usual at this old-school spot known for whole-animal butchery. In addition to some fantastic quality meats, find a large menu with things like buckwheat and apple pancakes and "red flannel hash." It's open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (reservations only accepted for parties of eight or more).

Sexy room? Check. Dim light? Check. The kitchen's famed Yakuza burger topped with chèvre and toothpick-fried potatoes? Check, check, and check. Get that burger now, and start your resolutions on January 2.

Interurban

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On New Year’s Day, Dan Hart’s saloon is hosting a “hangover brunch,” by offering Mexican-inspired pazole bowls, plates of chilaquiles and tequila Caesar salads. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Regular brunch items are also available. Prices vary. Just don’t forget to order a round of bloody Marys.

Open Tandoor

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The brick-and-mortar version of the Portland Masala Food Cart will be open for lunch and dinner. Find meats cooked in clay tandoor ovens, curries, and lots of vegetarian plates from chef Kinder Gill's native Punjab, India.

Tasty 'N Sons

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EaT: An Oyster Bar

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The only restaurant in town that sports a subtitle will indeed be open on NYD. And the kicker? They're giving away free cornbread, black-eyed peas, and cabbage to all you New Year's brunchers. Eating those three foods on NYD is a tradition that dates back to at least the Civil War and promises a year of prosperity.

Smokehouse Tavern

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If you’re fixin’ to fuel up on something heavy and hearty on NYD, Smokehouse Tavern is serving late-morning and early afternoon brunch fare like smoked brisket Benedicts, biscuits and gravy, and waffles topped with house-smoked chicken wings. Live in Vancouver, Smith’s Smokehouse Provisions is also open and offering brunch.

The Waiting Room

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Find $2 mimosas and comfort-food classics for brunch, followed by the restaurant's regular happy hour and dinner menus.

Mother's Bistro & Bar

[Photo: Mother’s Bistro & Bar]

Headwaters

Haven't been to chef Vitaly Paley's fourth restaurant — this one newly opened inside The Heathman Hotel? See what it's all about on NYD. The full menus will be available for brunch, happy hour, and dinner, with some holiday specials, too.

Punch Bowl Social

You might think that the sound of rolling bowling balls and the crack of pins would be the last thing you’d want to hear the morning after NYE — or let’s face it, the afternoon after — but on NYD, PBS is a chill spot in an otherwise closed-down shopping mall. And it serves all-day fun: Down a couple of bloodys, bowl a few strikes, and then head to the movies at the mall’s cinema.

Q Restaurant & Bar

[Photo: Lyudmilla Zotova/EPDX]

Nel Centro

Downtown Portland is easily this city’s bustlingest neighborhood, but on the holidays it’s as quiet as church mice. Follow the city center’s people-less streets to Nel Centro, which will be open for brunch from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Refortify yourself with a creamy Benedict, but don’t forget to de-fortify with a San Marzano bloody Mary or two.

Three Degrees

Chef Lauro Romero will prepare brunch plates like Dungeness crab toast, raw hamachi with aji amarillo vinaigrette, buttermilk waffles, and smoked brisket hash, from 8 a.m. to noon. Sitting inside the Kimpton RiverPlace Hotel, Three Degrees comes with views of the Willamette River, too.

Interurban

[Photo: Interurban]

Screen Door

Known for its lengthy lines and for the satisfying Southern plates at the end of them, Screen Door will open for brunch, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and dinner, starting at 5:30. It's first come, first serve, to get those fried chicken and waffles.

Ava Gene's

[Photo: Dina Avila]

The Woodsman Tavern

On New Year's Day, The Woodsman will open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and from 5 to 10 p.m. This means you'll have the opportunity to not only settle in for a hearty supper, but it'll give you the chance to take your sweetheart out to an early morning champagne-and-oysters brunch.

Country Cat Dinnerhouse & Bar

[Photo: Facebook/Country Cat]

Old Salt Marketplace

It'll be business as usual at this old-school spot known for whole-animal butchery. In addition to some fantastic quality meats, find a large menu with things like buckwheat and apple pancakes and "red flannel hash." It's open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (reservations only accepted for parties of eight or more).

Yakuza

Sexy room? Check. Dim light? Check. The kitchen's famed Yakuza burger topped with chèvre and toothpick-fried potatoes? Check, check, and check. Get that burger now, and start your resolutions on January 2.

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Interurban

On New Year’s Day, Dan Hart’s saloon is hosting a “hangover brunch,” by offering Mexican-inspired pazole bowls, plates of chilaquiles and tequila Caesar salads. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Regular brunch items are also available. Prices vary. Just don’t forget to order a round of bloody Marys.

Open Tandoor

The brick-and-mortar version of the Portland Masala Food Cart will be open for lunch and dinner. Find meats cooked in clay tandoor ovens, curries, and lots of vegetarian plates from chef Kinder Gill's native Punjab, India.

Tasty 'N Sons

[Photo: Tasty n Sons]

EaT: An Oyster Bar

The only restaurant in town that sports a subtitle will indeed be open on NYD. And the kicker? They're giving away free cornbread, black-eyed peas, and cabbage to all you New Year's brunchers. Eating those three foods on NYD is a tradition that dates back to at least the Civil War and promises a year of prosperity.

Smokehouse Tavern

If you’re fixin’ to fuel up on something heavy and hearty on NYD, Smokehouse Tavern is serving late-morning and early afternoon brunch fare like smoked brisket Benedicts, biscuits and gravy, and waffles topped with house-smoked chicken wings. Live in Vancouver, Smith’s Smokehouse Provisions is also open and offering brunch.

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