Norah (restaurant)


Norah is a restaurant with two locations in Portland, Oregon, United States. The business serves vegan Asian cuisine in southeast Portland's Sunnyside neighborhood and northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood. It has garnered a positive reception and was included in VegOut magazine's 2024 list of the nation's ten best vegan restaurants.

Description

The restaurant Norah has two locations in Portland, Oregon, operating on Belmont Street in southeast Portland's Sunnyside neighborhood and Alberta Street in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood. The business name references "manora", a traditional dance in southern Thailand.
Norah serves vegan Asian cuisine. The menu includes mushroom linguine with coconut-galangal sauce as well as pad thai and roasted cauliflower with curry. The restaurant has also served noodle soups, samosas, and pad thai nachos.

History

Ketsuda Nan Chaison and Prae Nobnorb are co-owners.
The Alberta Street location opened on November 5, 2024.

Reception

In 2024, Norah was included in VegOut magazine's list of the ten best vegan restaurants in the U.S., and Kay Kingsman included the business in a Fodor's list of Portland's fifteen best restaurants. Norah was a runner-up in the Best Vegetarian / Vegan Restaurant category of Willamette Week annual 'Best of Portland' readers' poll in 2024. It was a finalist in the same category in 2025. The business was included in a Yelp list of Portland's ten best vegan eateries in 2025.