My wife and I are going to be in Portland for the weekend of June 13.

Any good tips on restaurants, bars, cool things to do, must sees?

Pine State Biscuits for breakfast. Order the Reggie Deluxe. Eat. Smile. Go back to sleep.

Screen door cafe, or pips original donuts

Skip voodoo.

Is just meh

Multnomah Falls is a short distance away, and well worth it.

http://www.oregon.com/attractions/multnomah_falls

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Skip voodoo.

Is just meh

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Go to Blue Star instead. Better donuts and much shorter line.

Speaking of standing in lines - Portland has several places with crazy lines that might get recommended as must-do, but Salt & Straw ice cream is the only one I will gladly wait for 30 mins- 1 hr to get. Most other stuff just isn't worth it, especially if you are just here for a weekend and don't want to spend half of that waiting around with a bunch of hipsters. Pine State biscuits mentioned above falls in to this category on the weekends (definitely worth hitting up during the week though).

Thanks for the info. We will try some of these spots

Any good breweries or beer bars to hit up?

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Thanks for the info. We will try some of these spots

Any good breweries or beer bars to hit up?

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Here's a post I gave on the Food board's beer thread last year:

Too many good beer places to mention them all in one post, but here is a decent start:

Downtown/close-in
Breweries/brewpubs:
Deschutes - best overall combo of brew and pub
Cascade - sour specialists if you are in to that
Hair of the Dog - strong ales, really cool selection of old cellared stuff
Pints - in downtown. Haven't been there yet but have heard good things

Bottle shops:
The Beermongers - across street from Apex bar below. Good bottle selection and nice set of rotating taps of rare stuff

Beer bars:
Apex - amazing selection. highly recommend. CASH ONLY.
Bailey's Tap Room - prob best selection of rare/special taps in downtown
Green Dragon (near Cascade brewery) - liked it better before Rogue bought it, but still one of the better beer bars in town.

Further out
Breweries/brewpubs:
Breakside - GABF gold IPA and lots of experimental brews. Recommend their North Portland brew pub rather than their south side production brewery for better Portland atmosphere.
Ecliptic - started by guy who came up with Deschutes Black Butte Porter, Mirror Pond, and Jubleale recipes. Great neighborhood as well - if going here, also try the German bar Prost nearby
Hopworks - organic brewery/brewpub. Good beer and food. Very Portlandia.

Bottle Shops:
Belmont Station - prob most famous bottleshop in town. Has an attached bar with rotating rare beers.
John's Market - enormous bottle selection but not really a place for atmosphere. No on-site drinking.
Imperial Bottle Shop - good but not great. Worth going to if you want to combine with a trip to Salt and Straw or one of the restaurants in the neighborhood.

Beer bars:
Horse Brass - highly recommend this English pub. They alternate between RRBC Blind Pig and Pliny the Elder on tap. Tons of other taps with good stuff.
Saraveza
Roscoe's - a bit further out, but great rotating tap selection and nice little neighborhood.

Wow. That's awesome. Thanks!