Güero is a restaurant serving
Mexican cuisine
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in
Portland, Oregon
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's
Kerns neighborhood, in the United States.
Description
The restaurant specializes in
tortas
Torta is a culinary term that can, depending on the cuisine, refer to cakes, pies, flatbreads, sandwiches, or omelettes.
Usually, it refers to:
* cake or pie in South America, much of Europe, and southern Philippines
* flatbread in Spain
* a t ...
.
History
The restaurant opened in February 2017.
Reception
Güero was named "Portland's 2017 Rising Star restaurant" by ''
The Oregonian
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'' contributor Ben Waterhouse.
The ''
Portland Mercury
''Portland Mercury'' is an alternative bi-weekly newspaper and media company founded in 2000 in Portland, Oregon. It has a sibling publication in Seattle, Washington, called '' The Stranger''.
History
A prior version of ''The Mercury'' was ...
'' included Güero in a 2019 overview of the city's 50 "best multi-cultural restaurants and food carts". It was a runner-up in the Best Mexican Restaurant category of
''Willamette Week'' annual 'Best of Portland' readers' poll in 2022. The business was included in ''
Time Out Portland'' 2025 list of the city's eighteen best restaurants. Krista Garcia included the business in ''
Eater Portland'' 2025 overview of Portland's best Mexican restaurants and food carts.
See also
*
Hispanics and Latinos in Portland, Oregon
*
List of Mexican restaurants
This is a list of notable Mexican restaurants. Mexican cuisine is primarily a fusion of indigenous Mesoamerican cooking with European, especially Spanish cuisine, Spanish, elements added after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the 16th ce ...
References
External links
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Gueroat the
Food Network
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Güeroat
Lonely Planet
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History
20th century
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2017 establishments in Oregon
Mexican restaurants in Portland, Oregon
Restaurants established in 2017
Restaurants in Kerns, Portland, Oregon
Restaurants in Northeast Portland, Oregon
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