Vertical Diner Portland
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All plant based diner menu with breakfast all day, sandwiches, salads, burgers, vegan wings, shakes, gluten free, organic ingredients, clean food labels, great off street parking, soon serving cocktails, beer and wine
05/27/2026
Thank you for of your kind messages. We appreciate your patience with our situation. We let our team know we were closing in February instead of the day they showed up for work. We already have lost 2 people that were critical members of this team. It has been challenging keeping up with business. If anyone is great at vegan prep. We will hire you for the last 3 weeks. It has been slammed. We feel great doing the right thing but in some ways are being challenged for doing this.
We like to do the right thing, like treating everyone as equal. We come at our operations and services with love at a time where love, tolerance and compassion is looked down upon by ignorant, judgmental and angry people. Veganism was never about hatred.
So for all of you people making false, demeaning comments about our business. Shut the heck up!
Have you met me?
We operate business with a clean, professional, ethical approach founded with love for all.
We have had years of online bullying directed at me personally. It has been super gross to see in this Portland Vegan Community. Unreal.
Thank you for all of the real humans that are filled with love like us!
As for these sh*tty Real Racists that are sitting behind their keyboards with white guilt. These people were either bullied or were the ones bullying These leaders of vegan businesses, vegan social media groups, and even journalists have bullied me.
These people promoting hatred, fascism, division, have hurt the reputation of a great vegan business.
Do you really think that this is a MAGA vegan restaurant? What a joke. Has anyone met a vegan white supremacist. In 29 years of being vegan I have never met one.
To all of you bullies, I will not call you personally out for your actions. Why? This business is about hospitality, professionalism, love, animal rights, human rights, and our earth. Y’all haters will learn that your social media likes is just pumping the same stuff that you dislike in this world. You get to stew in your own stinky! Karma is real y’all!
Thank you!
-Ian,
Founder,
Owner,
Vertical Diner
Est. 1998
We look forward to seeing you all in our last 3 weeks of operation!
These pictures were from July 7, 2019 the first day we opened. It took us six months to get this place put back together into a usable, functional restaurant and also still retain its original charm from 1969 when it was built.
Over the years we’ve had many independent movies as well as college project films, and also major Hollywood feature length, film films, and series shows filmed at the Vertical Diner. We are excited to announce that after we close on June 14, a local filmmaker will be shooting some scenes at Vertical Diner. We’re also hoping that someone else will take over this wonderful space and keep it classic diner like for many years to come!
We’re getting a lot of restaurant operators walking through checking out the space to see if they’ve got the chops to do it. We really need someone that knows diner love to take over the space. Whoever has diner love will do incredibly well here! We have a return key option for that operator! This building has been set up so efficiently, it’s just amazing.
Hope to serve everyone over the next four weeks. We appreciate all the support of everyone coming out to dine with us a few less times before he shut down! It will help us with affording the process of shutting everything down, which is a huge process.
We’re very grateful for all of your support and messages of love and care. We have loved serving you all over the last 7 years.
Please look at the last post to get all of the information on our closing! We appreciate all of your support last week! It is amazing that we never had a post go so far until we announced we were closing. Darn. Social media is very responsive to tragedy, drama and chaos. What does that mean for our society. It is pretty scary. Never a better time than now to start some good old time zines!
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8124 SW Barbur Boulevard
Portland, OR
97219
Opening Hours
| Monday | 10am - 8pm |
| Tuesday | 10am - 8pm |
| Wednesday | 10am - 8pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 8pm |
| Friday | 10am - 8pm |
| Saturday | 10am - 8pm |
| Sunday | 10am - 8pm |
