Dirty Lettuce is a Black-owned vegan restaurant serving Southern, Cajun, and Creole cuisine in Portland, Oregon.
Dirty Lettuce serves vegan Southern,[2] Cajun,[3] and Creole cuisine,[4] including plant-based "meats" such as seitan barbecue ribs and Ota tofu fried "chicken".
[5] Sides include fried okra,[6] jambalaya, macaroni and cheese,[7] sour cream and onion mashed potatoes, Southern-style leaf vegetables, a Nachitoches meat pie, bowls similar to KFC's Famous Bowl,[8][9] shrimp-and-grit fritters, candied yams, and corn muffins.
[12] He opened a brick and mortar restaurant on Northeast Fremont in the Cully neighborhood (at the Rose City Park border) in May 2021,[12] and planned to continue operating the food cart as of March.
[17] Similarly, Willamette Week's Shannon Gormley called Dirty Lettuce the "biggest breakout success" of Shady Pines, Portland's only vegan food pod until closing.