Gumba (restaurant)

Gumba
The restaurant's exterior in 2022
Restaurant information
Established2016 (2016)
Owner(s)
  • Robin Brassaw
  • Jesse Martinez
Food typeItalian
Street address1733 Northeast Alberta Street
CityPortland
CountyMultnomah
StateOregon
Postal/ZIP Code97211
CountryUnited States
Coordinates45°33′34″N 122°38′50″W / 45.5594°N 122.6472°W / 45.5594; -122.6472
Websitegumba-pdx.com

Gumba Pasta Parlor, or simply Gumba, is an Italian restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States.[1] Established in 2016, the business initially operated as a food cart.[2]

Description

The Italian restaurant Gumba (pronounced "GOOM-bah")[3] operates in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood. Originally a food cart, the business now operates as a brick and mortar restaurant with an "airy, floral-but-industrial" dining room, according to Eater Portland.[4]

The menu includes pastas with ingredients such as burrata, egg yolk, lemon, shallots, and sumac,[3] as well as calamari with marinated chickpeas and pappardelle with braised beef short rib.[5] The restaurant has also served burrata with black pepper, fry bread, and olive oil,[6] as well as cannolis and eggplant caramel olive oil cake.[4][5] The squid ink spaghettini has Manila clams, mussels, scallops, and cheese frico.[7]

History

Robin Brassaw and Jesse Martinez are the owners.[8] The duo started the business as a food cart in 2016[9] and relocated to a pod called The Whale in August 2017.[10] Gumba became a brick and mortar establishment in 2020,[11][12] operating in the space that previously housed Aviary.[13]

Reception

Brooke Jackson-Glidden included Gumba in Eater Portland's 2017 list of seventeen "date-worthy" restaurants open on Mondays.[4] She also included the business in a 2022 overview of restaurants with the best burrata in the metropolitan area.[6] The website's Janey Wong included the squid ink spaghettini in a 2024 overview of the city's best pasta dishes.[7] Gumba was also included in Eater Portland's 2025 overview of the city's best Italian restaurants.[5] Katherine Chew Hamilton included the business in the website's 2025 overview of recommended restaurants on Alberta Street.[8] Gumba ranked number 98 on Yelp's "Top 100 Places to Eat" list in 2023.[14][15]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Best Thing We Ate This Week: November 13". Portland Monthly. Archived from the original on 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  2. ^ Bakall, Samantha (2017-07-06). "Some of Portland's best and most beautiful pasta comes from a food cart". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  3. ^ a b McCollom, Hollyanna (2019-05-14). Moon Portland. Avalon Publishing. ISBN 978-1-64049-368-1.
  4. ^ a b c Jackson-Glidden, Brooke (2021-11-01). "17 Date-Worthy Restaurants in Portland Actually Open on Mondays". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2022-01-04. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  5. ^ a b c "The Best Italian Restaurants in Portland". Eater Portland. 2018-07-18. Archived from the original on 2019-01-26. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  6. ^ a b Jackson-Glidden, Brooke (2022-08-10). "Where to Find Dreamy Burrata Around Portland". Eater Portland. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  7. ^ a b Wong, Janey (2024-10-23). "The Best Pasta Dishes in Portland". Eater Portland. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  8. ^ a b Hamilton, Katherine Chew (2016-10-10). "The Best Restaurants and Bars on Alberta Street". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2021-11-03. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  9. ^ "Whether Serving Out of a Cart Window or Cardboard Boxes, Gumba Is One of Portland's Finest Pasta Parlors". Willamette Week. 2021-01-14. Archived from the original on 2023-05-01. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  10. ^ Bamman, Mattie John (2017-08-23). "Two Killer New Food Cart Pods to Get Excited About". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2021-02-05. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  11. ^ Jackson-Glidden, Brooke (2020-09-02). "One of Portland's Best Food Carts Will Become a Restaurant". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2024-12-08. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  12. ^ Russell, Michael (2020-09-01). "Gumba will bring its cart-made pastas indoors with new Northeast Alberta Street brick-and-mortar". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  13. ^ "The Best Italian Restaurants in Portland". Eater Portland. 2018-07-18. Archived from the original on 2019-01-26. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  14. ^ "These Portland restaurants made Yelp's Top 100 Places to Eat for 2023". KPTV. 2023-01-25. Archived from the original on 2023-06-08. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  15. ^ Bjorke, Christopher. "3 Portland restaurants make Yelp's top 100 list". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
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