Departure is an Asian restaurant and bar on the fifteenth floor of The Nines, a hotel in downtown Portland's Meier & Frank Building.

[1] Portland Monthly describes the restaurant as "a lively hub for creative, ambitious pan-Asian cuisine, a spot where Oregon’s produce, meats, and seafood are transmuted into bold yet comforting dishes that sizzle and pop with the big, bright flavors of chile, lime, and ginger".

[2] The menu "encompasses China (spring rolls, siu mai, fried rice) Japan (edamame, sashimi, kushiyaki) and Korea (a good bibimbap, stirred table-side)",[3] and offers vegetarian and vegan options.

[1][4] According to Portland Monthly, "Visiting the restaurant, with its Vegas-style decks and unparalleled views of the city, is an expensive but giddy-making surprise: it's as if you went into a dressing room to try on a pair of gaudy Ed Hardy jeans and came out clad in an Armani suit.

"[2] Michael Russell of The Oregonian wrote, "If you're interested in this kind of modern Asian fusion in Portland, you might be better off at Smallwares, Expatriate or The American Local, where the bill will be considerably lower.