HeyDay (restaurant)
HeyDay is a doughnut shop in Portland, Oregon, United States. Lisa Nguyen started the business as a pop-up restaurant in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, before moving to the food cart pod Collective Oregon Eateries in southeast Portland's Lents neighborhood in 2023. Specializing in mochi donuts, HeyDay has garnered a positive reception.
Description
The doughnut shop HeyDay operates in the food cart pod Collective Oregon Eateries in southeast Portland's Lents neighborhood. HeyDay specializes in mochi donuts made with wheat and rice flour; most are fried, though the ube variety is baked. The nonya kaya doughnuts have pandan. Other varieties have included baked apple, black sesame, ca phe sua, dark chocolate peanut butter, gingersnap, guava, lychee, raspberry cheesecake, white chocolate matcha, and vanilla bean sprinkle. Doughnuts are topped with various crumbles, frostings, or glazes using Southeast Asian ingredients such as coconut sweet corn, passionfruit, and yuzu. HeyDay also makes bear-shaped cake doughnuts and other baked goods such as biscuits and danishes.History
Lisa Nguyen started HeyDay as a pop-up in May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, initially selling at local cafes and tea shops including Portland Cà Phê. In 2021, Nguyen announced plans to move into CORE. In 2022, HeyDay was a vendor at the Tiger Tiger music festival. The business began operating at CORE in May 2023. In 2024, HeyDay launched Sunday Bakeshop, a rotating menu of cakes, cookies, cream puffs, macarons, pies, and other Vietnamese baked goods and desserts.In April 2025, The Oregonian reported that HeyDay had "recently closed". HeyDay was among local Filipino establishments that participated in a fundraiser for victims of the Vancouver car attack.