Ross Island Grocery & Cafe

Nothing but good food with a great assortment of delicious things to eat. Fantastic owner operator!

Great little spot, perfectly placed directly across the street from my Airbnb! Excellent coffee, nice selection of beer and wine, and great food. The person who whined about the avocado toast should have spent 3 more dollars to get the breakfast burrito, it was amazing!

Perfect neighborhood cafe.

Great food and service!

Love this place! Delicious food, awesome staff, great location! Try the 'Club of Love' if you are undecided on a sandwhich.. it's amazing!

They are the best! Thanks for the care taken on our order. Couldn’t appreciate the staff more❤️

such a cute little cafe! the staff was extremely nice and welcoming. Definitely recommend if you're in the area!

staff is very nice but don’t seem to know how to pull espresso shots. i’ve probably been a good 10 times at least and have never enjoyed my coffee. management or ownership is not kind. if you’re new to town, new to the neighborhood, are not white, are not over the age of 65, you won’t feel welcome. do NOT order the avocado toast. it’s just cream cheese toast with a sprinkle of 1/8 of an avocado.

This is a great little neighborhood spot with good hot sandwiches and a nice breakfast burrito but they need a little work. The food takes way too long. I’m talking roasting a small chicken long sometimes, not just heating up and melting cheese on deli meat long. Rarely I’ve ordered with a long line of tickets either. This has swayed me from grabbing lunch before work because an hour simply isn’t enough time to order, wait, eat, and drive. If you get a coffee drink expect to wait 10 mins at least because if someone comes to the register they will just stop making your drink. That is honestly unacceptable from one service industry worker to another. Finish what you started and make that first customer feel considered and respected, tips will get bigger if you put them first because the person at the register will see it as good service they’re about to get. With all that said, I say it with love because this place has a great community and much potential and delicious food! Lastly, I would LOVE if breakfast was extended at least an hour, until noon.

I had a Ross Island BLT. It was yummy. Loved the music by Patrick.

I have a bad habit of ordering Uber Eats for breakfast almost every single day and have tried practically every place that delivers in my area. This morning, Ross Island Grocery & Cafe popped up for the first time (or at least the first time I noticed it) so I checked their menu and they had what I was looking for (poached eggs) so I ordered their classic breakfast and a coffee and waited for my food.

I'm honestly not sure if the eggs that came were actually poached or not, at first glance they looked like they were cooked over easy so I was a little disappointed at first but they also did not have any browning which is normally a tell tale sign of being cooked in a pan with oil or butter instead of in water. They also came as a single mass with two yolks as opposed to two separate eggs, which was different. But when I transfered them to a bowl and stirred them up into a glorious eggy soup for spooning onto my toast, I found that they were perfectly cooked with wonderfully runny yolks and were absolutely delicious so my disappointment quickly disappeared. The lack of browning and overall texture of them makes me think they might just have a different poaching technique than I'm used to but whatever the case, they were phenomenal. A+.

The bacon was a little thinner than I would have liked but it too was delicious and PERFECTLY cooked, so I can't really complain. Especially when the relatively low price for the meal is taken into account.

The breakfast potatoes were great. I'm normally a hash brown guy but I had no problem making the switch for this meal. They had a really nice crisp to them.

The toast was also perfectly toasted and was still plenty crispy after making the 15 minute journey from the restaurant to my house. When I order from most other places, by the time it arrives the toast is limp, soggy, and sad. Not this toast.

There's not much to say about the coffee other than it's just a great standard drip coffee. It's better than what I make at home by a wide margin and they put in the right amount of cream and sugar so it gets another thumbs up from me.

Honestly aside from the very minor complaint about the bacon thickness, I couldn't have been any happier with this meal. Everything was absolutely delicious and perfect and considering it was over $5 cheaper than basically anywhere else, it's probably going to become my new favorite breakfast place to order from.

I had high hopes for this cafe, but unfortunately, my experience
was disappointing. I ordered a $6 avocado toast, and when it finally arrived (after waiting over 30 minutes with only a few other customers in the store), it looked incredibly unappetizing on small pieces of toast. Definitely not worth the price.

That said, I want to give credit where it’s due—the employees were extremely friendly and polite, which I really appreciated. However, the long wait time and poor presentation of the food made this visit a letdown.

I hope they can improve their food quality and service speed in the future because the staff deserves to work in a place that meets the same high standard of friendliness they bring to the table.

Fantastic avocado toast. Quaint little neighborhood spot a minute from downtown

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Our daily morning stop during our stay in Portland.
Always pleasant, good food and good service!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sandwiches, Breakfast Sandwich

Adorable, hospitable, and beautifully local, the Ross Island Grocery & Cafe is a neighborhood gem!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5