Cully Retreat Guidebook
Food scene
Delicious New Zealand-style treat - fresh vanilla ice cream blended with fresh berries of your choice and swirled into a cone. So good!
6 locals recommend
Nico's Ice Cream
5713 Northeast Fremont StreetDelicious New Zealand-style treat - fresh vanilla ice cream blended with fresh berries of your choice and swirled into a cone. So good!
Small donuts in both classic and unique flavors. Get there early because all of Portland likes to show up for these little tasty morsels.
219 locals recommend
Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai
4759 NE Fremont StSmall donuts in both classic and unique flavors. Get there early because all of Portland likes to show up for these little tasty morsels.
Our favorite neighborhood pizza joint. Amazing Neopalitan-style pizza. I recommend the tribunali pizza and chop salad.
59 locals recommend
Pizzeria Otto
6708 NE Sandy BlvdOur favorite neighborhood pizza joint. Amazing Neopalitan-style pizza. I recommend the tribunali pizza and chop salad.
Our weekly go-to. Awesome cocktail specials, solid tap offerings, and food that is so much more than your standard bar fare. Our standard order: nachos with pulled pork or BLT (w/ balsamic drizzle) and pork sliders...ok or the Cubano...it's all so good!
9 locals recommend
Hi-Top Tavern
5015 NE Fremont StOur weekly go-to. Awesome cocktail specials, solid tap offerings, and food that is so much more than your standard bar fare. Our standard order: nachos with pulled pork or BLT (w/ balsamic drizzle) and pork sliders...ok or the Cubano...it's all so good!
Yes, it's a vegan deli but you'd never know it. Delicious for vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters! Great spot for your classic bagel cravings or go big with a breakfast bagel sando.
8 locals recommend
Ben & Esther's Bagels and Deli
1800 NE Sandy BlvdYes, it's a vegan deli but you'd never know it. Delicious for vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters! Great spot for your classic bagel cravings or go big with a breakfast bagel sando.
Angel Food & Fun
5135 NE 60th AveDelicious burritos! Highly recommend pibil cochinita.
Wonderly
4727 NE Fremont StMy-O-My
Neighborhoods
Our neighborhood! Full of so many gems - food, drink, and green space. Enough like a city to have all the amenities you want but on the fringe just enough to be a slower pace and full of small locally owned businesses.
13 locals recommend
Cully
Our neighborhood! Full of so many gems - food, drink, and green space. Enough like a city to have all the amenities you want but on the fringe just enough to be a slower pace and full of small locally owned businesses.
A quick drive or bike ride will get you to our funkier neighboring neighborhood (that's fun to say), Alberta Arts. More food, more drink, and a plentiful amount of quirky little shops to fill a weekend of browsing.
205 locals recommend
Alberta Arts District
A quick drive or bike ride will get you to our funkier neighboring neighborhood (that's fun to say), Alberta Arts. More food, more drink, and a plentiful amount of quirky little shops to fill a weekend of browsing.
City/town information
Just three hours from the Cully Retreat, you'll find yourself surrounded by Ponderosa Pine trees and high desert air. Stellar destination for hiking, mountain biking, fishing, kayaking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, shopping, dining, and relaxing.
87 locals recommend
Bend
Just three hours from the Cully Retreat, you'll find yourself surrounded by Ponderosa Pine trees and high desert air. Stellar destination for hiking, mountain biking, fishing, kayaking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, shopping, dining, and relaxing.
Just 5 minutes north, you'll find Vancouver, Washington which has an up-and-coming waterfront and downtown area with cute shops and dining.
32 locals recommend
Vancouver
Just 5 minutes north, you'll find Vancouver, Washington which has an up-and-coming waterfront and downtown area with cute shops and dining.
Sightseeing
Lovely large park about 10 minutes away. A great place to take a picnic, watch the ducks in the pond, or catch a park yoga class. Also a great spot to just watch the characters of Portland.
437 locals recommend
Laurelhurst Park
SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd & Stark StLovely large park about 10 minutes away. A great place to take a picnic, watch the ducks in the pond, or catch a park yoga class. Also a great spot to just watch the characters of Portland.
Breweries
Great local beer with indoor and outdoor seating, food cart, and just a few blocks from the Cully Retreat.
Upright Brewing Beer Station
Great local beer with indoor and outdoor seating, food cart, and just a few blocks from the Cully Retreat.
Ecliptic Brewing
825 N Cook StOakshire Beer Hall
5013 NE 42nd AveCoffee Buzz Buzz
Walking distance from the Cully Retreat - Juniors is a local business not just making delicious drinks but roasting beans for multiple local coffee shops.
Junior's Roasted Coffee
7151 NE Fremont StWalking distance from the Cully Retreat - Juniors is a local business not just making delicious drinks but roasting beans for multiple local coffee shops.
Case Study Coffee Roasters
Bison Coffeehouse
3941 NE Cully BlvdFun, colorful, funky, friendly neighborhood coffee shop. Black drip coffee is everything you need it to be but they also offer monthly specials when you're feeling like a real spunky treat like a lavender oat milk latte and one of their homemade pop tarts.
30 locals recommend
Kainos Coffee
6633 NE Sandy BlvdFun, colorful, funky, friendly neighborhood coffee shop. Black drip coffee is everything you need it to be but they also offer monthly specials when you're feeling like a real spunky treat like a lavender oat milk latte and one of their homemade pop tarts.
Hip, modern, lovely space. You may find yourself here for the coffee but you'll quickly realize you're really there for the fresh housemade Stroop waffles.
Prince Coffee
Hip, modern, lovely space. You may find yourself here for the coffee but you'll quickly realize you're really there for the fresh housemade Stroop waffles.
City advice
Getting around
Almost anything is within 20 minutes of the Cully Retreat
Depending on what you have planned, the following modes are recommended:
- Biking -- we're just a few minutes from a Nike Bike Town station on NE Sandy if you want to borrow a bike
- Driving -- on average, you'll get anywhere in the PDX area in 20 min or less and parking is free in most neighborhoods outside of Downtown
- Trimet Bus + Max Light Rail -- multiple bus stops are within a few minutes of the Cully Retreat and will get you almost any direction you need to go for a daily max cost of $5/day
- Uber/Lyft -- friendly remember to not drink and drive :)