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Akadi
West African restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Akadi is a Black-owned,[1] West African restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. Fatou Ouattara is the chef and owner.
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Description
The menu specializes in cuisine from Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast, and has seafood and vegetarian options.[2] Options include fried plantains, plantain fufu, and stews.[3]
History
Akadi originally operated at 3601 Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in the Boise neighborhood.[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic, business had declined by 50 percent, as of July 2020.[5] In December 2020, Ouattara confirmed plans to close temporarily on December 31.[6] Akadi reopened in southeast Portland's Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood in May 2022, along with its sister business, House of Flavor.[7]
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Reception
In 2018, Akadi was named one of Portland’s Best New Restaurants by Portland Monthly.[8] In 2019, Michael Russell included Akadi in The Oregonian's list of the city's 10 best new restaurants.[9] He later included the business in the newspaper's 2025 list of the 21 best restaurants in southeast Portland.[10] Russell ranked Akadi number 39 in The Oregonian's 2025 list of Portland's 40 best restaurants.[11]
In 2020, Eater Portland's Brooke Jackson-Glidden said the Attieke Poisson Braisé was "one of the top dishes in Northeast Portland" and also recommended the goat pepper soup and mafe.[12] The website's Waz Wu included Akadi in a 2023 list of "Portland’s Primo Special Occasion Restaurants for Vegans and Vegetarians".[13] Akadi was included in The Infatuation's 2024 list of Portland's best restaurants.[14] The business was included in Time Out Portland's 2025 list of the city's eighteen best restaurants.[15]
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