Shalom Y'all
Shalom Y'all is a restaurant serving Israeli, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern cuisine in Portland, Oregon, United States. There were two locations, before one restaurant rebranded as Lil' Shalom. Lil' Shalom closed permanently in 2025.
Description
Shalom Y'all is a restaurant in southeast Portland's Buckman neighborhood. Portland Monthly has described the restaurant as an "Israeli street food kitchen". The menu has included cucumber-kohlrabi salads, hummus plates with maitake mushrooms or braised lamb, oregano-perfumed lambchops, muhamara, a blackberry Manischewitz-spiked spritzer, and flatbread with a roasted pepper spread and pomegranate molasses. Both Shalom Y'all and its spin-off Lil' Shalom have served corn ribs.History
The original restaurant was established in May 2016, initially operating in the Pine Street Market. The business relocated to 1128 Southwest Alder Street in 2017.Plans for a second location in southeast Portland were announced in November 2017. The outpost opened in February 2018.
The business is operated by Sesame Collective. Laura Amans, Jamal Hassan, Kasey Mills are co-owners.
The restaurant's phone system was hacked in 2019. In January 2021, both locations were vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti. Michael Russell of The Oregonian wrote in 2021:
In mid 2021, the Alder Street location closed and rebranded as Lil' Shalom. The Shalom Y'all on Southeast Taylor Street continued to operate as usual.