Burgerville is a Pacific Northwest regional burger chain with many Portland-metro locations.
The grass-fed burger is a permanent item on an otherwise standard fast-food menu. It's a quick, affordable stop.
Grass-Fed Sweet Onion Burger (Carman Ranch)
Carman Ranch grass-fed beef in the Grass-Fed Sweet Onion Burger
Their menu names the Grass-Fed Sweet Onion Burger as "grass-fed Carman Ranch beef, Face Rock 2-year aged white cheddar, sweet onion spread, griddled onions," now a permanent everyday menu item. · confirmed via burgerville.com: menu
Dick's Primal Kitchen is a burger counter on Woodstock Blvd in Southeast Portland.
It's one of few restaurants serving 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef across the entire menu. It's a casual, counter-service burger stop.
Classic Burger (100% grass-fed, grass-finished)
100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef across the whole menu
Their current menu states: "We serve 100% grass-fed and finished beef," adding "Dick's Primal Kitchen is one of the very few restaurants serving 100% grass-fed, humanely raised & pastured beef." Every beef option on the burger, bowl, and salad menus runs on this program. · confirmed via dicksprimalkitchen.com
Higgins Restaurant is a longtime farm-to-table restaurant in downtown Portland, near SW Broadway.
The kitchen has a long history working with Oregon ranches. It's suited to a downtown lunch or dinner.
Grilled Grass-Fed Beef Burger · Grass-Fed Beef Brisket Pastrami
Grass-fed beef in the burger and the brisket pastrami
Their lunch menu names two dishes directly: a "grilled grass-fed beef burger" and an "open faced grass-fed beef brisket pastrami." A supplier isn't named on the current menu, though Higgins has historically sourced from Carman Ranch. · confirmed via higginsportland.com: lunch menu
Urban Farmer Portland is a modern steakhouse on the 8th floor of The Nines Hotel, downtown.
The menu labels its grass-fed and grain-finished cuts separately. It's suited to a hotel dinner or celebration.
14oz New York, Carman Ranch (grass-fed)
Carman Ranch, grass-fed, named cut; Painted Hills cuts labeled grain-finished
Their current dinner menu lists a "14oz New York, Carman Ranch, grass-fed, Oregon" alongside separate Painted Hills cuts explicitly labeled "grain-finished." The Carman Ranch steak is grass-fed and grass-finished, confirmed on Carman Ranch's own site history and independent press; the Painted Hills cuts are grass-fed but grain-finished, in the restaurant's own words on the same menu. · confirmed via urbanfarmersteakhouse.com: Portland dinner menu
Frequently asked questions
Are there grass-fed beef restaurants in Portland?
Yes, though the current, live list runs shorter than Portland's farm-to-table reputation might suggest. Dick's Primal Kitchen (Woodstock) is the standout: a whole-menu, 100% grass-fed and grass-finished burger counter, confirmed directly on their own current menu. Urban Farmer Portland (Downtown, The Nines Hotel) runs a Carman Ranch grass-fed New York steak alongside grain-finished Painted Hills cuts, and states the distinction itself. Higgins (Downtown) confirms two grass-fed dishes on its lunch menu. Burgerville, the Pacific Northwest regional chain, names Carman Ranch on its permanent Grass-Fed Sweet Onion Burger. Several other Portland restaurants with older press coverage of grass-fed claims (Ox, Besaw's, Hal's Cafe, Bantam Tavern, Little Big Burger) no longer carry that language on their current menus as of this check, so we left them off rather than publish a stale claim. See each listing for exactly what's confirmed and by whom.
Is Painted Hills beef grass-fed?
Painted Hills Natural Beef markets itself as grass-fed, but its own site describes a grain-based finishing diet, "corn, alfalfa, wheat and various food by-products" in the last months before processing. That makes it grass-fed but grain-finished, the same pattern as Bear Creek Farm and Porter Road Butcher in our Nashville guide. It's a legitimate, disclosed program, just not fully grass-finished. Urban Farmer Portland's own menu draws this exact line, listing Painted Hills cuts as "grain-finished" right next to its grass-fed Carman Ranch steak, which is why we can state it with confidence here.
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