Northern Lantern House Labs

Portland, OR

Le Pigeon

Portland chef-driven tasting destination built around a fixed multi-course format rather than flexible ordering.

Read from

lepigeon.com

One page, and it is theirs.

Last official read 5 August 2026. A later corpus refresh is not a new read of this page.

Never stated

4 things the restaurant has not put in writing

Current tasting-menu price; live availability; physical-access route and restroom configuration; and one more.

A blank means nobody said it; it never means we filled it in.

Two of the restaurant's own pages disagree. Both claims are kept; neither is quietly dropped.

Portland, ORConflicting official informationDietary options onlyBest recorded use: Date night

Tonight at Le Pigeon

What Deep Dish knows

Kitchen
Fine dining · Plant-forward
Format
tasting / set menu; à la carte
Spend
Premium planning band
Booking
Reservations are recommended for dining-room tables and the chef counter.
Menu
Published on lepigeon.com
Source
lepigeon.com
Dietary options only4 fields never stated

What do you need?

Dietary

Before you order

Dietary options only

The menu marks dietary options, but the restaurant has published nothing about how the kitchen keeps them apart. A vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free marker is not a celiac or severe-allergy protocol. Ask the restaurant directly if that distinction matters for your table.

Separate omnivore and vegetarian tasting menus are published.
The restaurant’s own words, from the dietaryDetails field

None of this is an allergen guarantee. Deep Dish records what a restaurant published and when it was read, and verifies nothing about a kitchen.

Identity mark (tasting), drawn from cuisine and room signals recorded for Le Pigeon.

Why go

Portland chef-driven tasting destination built around a fixed multi-course format rather than flexible ordering.

No signature dish is named on the restaurant's own pages. Format on file: tasting / set menu; à la carte.

Compact, chef-driven Portland dining room with a close view of the kitchen and a deliberately focused tasting-menu…

Before you book

Why go, what to order, what it costs, what the room is like, whether it fits tonight, and what you still need to confirm. Where an answer says the restaurant has never stated it, that is their silence being reported, not a gap we intend to fill.

  1. 01Is the food actually good?

    On file

    The restaurant describes itself as Portland chef-driven tasting destination built around a fixed multi-course format rather than flexible ordering. That is the restaurant's own description, not a review consensus. Deep Dish does not rank food quality from public reviews.

    Restaurant-owned description · not a quality verdict

  2. 02Is it worth the money?

    On file

    The restaurant currently operates as tasting-menu-only. That is the restaurant's published figure, not a value verdict.

    Restaurant-owned pricing

  3. 03What is the overall experience?

    On file

    Compact, chef-driven Portland dining room with a close view of the kitchen and a deliberately focused tasting-menu format. Diner-facing tags on file: intimate, upscale, view.

    Restaurant-owned atmosphere + recorded bands

  4. 04What do other people think?

    Never stated

    Deep Dish does not collect diner reviews and does not rank rooms by them. What other people think is not a first-party field. Ask people you trust, or confirm with the restaurant.

    Not a first-party field

  5. 05How good is the service?

    On file

    Stated service format: open nightly with reservations recommended, according to the restaurant. That is the restaurant's own description, not a diner-experience pattern.

    Restaurant-stated format

  6. 06How convenient is it?

    On file

    Reservations are recommended for dining-room tables and the chef counter. Parking and transit details were not published on the reviewed first-party pages… Plan for a full tasting-menu evening.

    Booking, arrival, meal length, access

  7. 07What should we ask before ordering?

    On file

    Separate omnivore and vegetarian tasting menus are published. Before you order: confirm the live kitchen rule with the restaurant.

    Restaurant-owned dietary language

  8. 08What is the menu like?

    On file

    No signature dish is named on the restaurant's own pages. Format on file: tasting / set menu; à la carte. Drinks: wine and beverage menus are published alongside the tasting menus.

    Restaurant-owned menu language

  9. 09Is it clean and trustworthy?

    Never stated

    The health-inspection layer is empty in this build, so this restaurant has not been checked against one. Cleanliness here comes from an inspection record or from nothing at all. Public reviews are not used as a cleanliness signal.

    Conservative — inspection layer not loaded

  10. 10What makes it different?

    On file

    Compact, chef-driven Portland dining room with a close view of the kitchen and a deliberately focused tasting-menu…

    From culinary identity, room, and format on the case file

Table intelligence

What the room is like, what to order and what it costs — each claim taken from the restaurant's own pages or a directory location fact, never from a review sample.

What to order

No dish is named on the restaurant’s own pages. Ask what the kitchen is known for when you call — this is a gap in the file, not a verdict on the food.

Menu formatOmnivore and vegetarian tasting menus are published; no a la carte menu is offered.

What it costs

The restaurant currently operates as tasting-menu-only. Confirm the active omnivore and vegetarian tasting-menu prices on the booking page before reserving.

When you can go

Le Pigeon is open nightly for dinner.No machine-readable schedule is held, so the instrument cannot tell you whether this room is serving right now.

The tradeoff

Restaurant-owned pages

Compact, chef-driven Portland dining room with a close view of the kitchen and a deliberately focused tasting-menu format.

OccasionSpecial-occasion dinner; chef-counter experience; tasting-menu date; destination dining.

Public reviews are not summarised here. What the room is like comes from what the restaurant published.

Getting there

Address
738 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214
Coordinate
No coordinate is held. Deep Dish cannot state a distance to this room.
Step-free
Not stated on any source held.

The room

Compact, chef-driven Portland dining room with a close view of the kitchen and a deliberately focused tasting-menu format.

DressNo formal dress code was stated on the reviewed first-party pages.

Decision brief

The file is still limited

Situation fit64
Evidence confidence45
Confirm burden82
Fit
Reads 64/100 against a partial situation. Strongest recorded use: date night. Add an occasion to sharpen this.
Evidence
Weakest coverage: Price. Those fields were not published, so they are not filled in.
What you still need to ask
1 critical risk: review window has lapsed. 1 watch item, 6 residual unknowns carried forward.
Confirm burden
Confirm burden 82/100 · planning load Heavy · one official conflict open · reviewed 2026-08-05, next 2026-08-12.

Before you choose it

Portland chef-driven tasting destination built around a fixed multi-course format rather than flexible ordering. That is what the restaurant says it does, read off its own pages.

Food & menu
Portland chef-driven tasting destination built around a fixed multi-course format rather than flexible ordering. Omnivore and vegetarian tasting menus are published; no a la carte menu is offered.
Spend / value
The restaurant currently operates as tasting-menu-only. Confirm live before you commit — price is volatile.
Experience
Compact, chef-driven Portland dining room with a close view of the kitchen and a deliberately focused tasting-menu format. Room read: formal, slower pacing.
Best fit
Special-occasion dinner; chef-counter experience; tasting-menu date.
Convenience
Reservations are recommended for dining-room tables and the chef counter. Plan for a full tasting-menu evening. Parking and transit details were not published on the reviewed first-party…
Dietary
Separate omnivore and vegetarian tasting menus are published. A menu marker is not a guarantee of allergy safety — confirm the live kitchen rule.

Recommended next action

Ask the restaurant about price before you commit. Call (503) 546-8796 in one pass and clear every critical item below; book only after they resolve.

When you are ready

Send Le Pigeon to the night plan in Occasion OS, where the rest of the night is being built. Rejected rooms and browsing stay here.

Send this room to the night plan in Occasion OS

What you still need to ask — in order

  1. 01Re-read the official pages before using this record for a decision.
  2. 02Call (503) 546-8796 and ask the conflicted field as a direct question. Keep both recorded claims visible until sources converge; do not adopt the friendlier one.
Official conflict preservedBoth claims remain on the record. Nothing has been collapsed to the friendlier statement.
Why it ranked where it did

Why it ranked here

Fit 64 of 100

This is the opening score for the occasion — 64 of 100 — and nothing you have told us so far has moved it up or down.

Add the party size, your budget ceiling, when you are arriving or where you are coming from, and every term that changes this number will be listed here.

What Deep Dish is watching

For this night

Critical

1
  • Criticalevidence · impact 78 · high confidence

    Review window has lapsed

    Last first-party review 2026-08-05; window closed 2026-08-12.

    DoRe-read the official pages before using this record for a decision.

Watch

1
  • Watchevidence · impact 84 · high confidence

    Official sources conflict — both claims preserved

    Retain each source, date and field conflict; do not select the more favorable statement without evidence.

    DoCall (503) 546-8796 and ask the conflicted field as a direct question. Keep both recorded claims visible until sources converge; do not adopt the friendlier one.

Unknown

6
  • Unknownaccess · impact 24 · high confidence

    Access honesty marker: route unstated

    Detailed physical-access route and restroom information were not stated in the reviewed first-party pages.

    DoAsk only if a guest needs it; the record does not claim accessibility either way.

  • Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence

    Current tasting-menu price

    Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.

    DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.

  • Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence

    Live availability

    Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.

    DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.

  • Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence

    Physical-access route and restroom configuration

    Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.

    DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.

  • Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence

    Dietary modification limits beyond the vegetarian menu

    Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.

    DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.

  • Unknownarrival · impact 18 · high confidence

    Parking and transit unstated

    Parking and transit details were not published on the reviewed first-party pages; confirm access for your arrival window.

    DoLow stakes here; check a map before you leave.

Restaurant sources

What the restaurant publishes

Pages read

Every line in the table below came from one of these sources. None of it was assembled out of other people’s reviews.

Never stated

4 things the restaurant has never published. Listed rather than filled in. Each one is a question worth asking before you commit to the table.

  • Current tasting-menu price
  • live availability
  • physical-access route and restroom configuration
  • dietary modification limits beyond the vegetarian menu
Service
Open nightly with reservations recommended, according to the restaurant. Service format from the restaurant's own pages: No a la carte menu offered. · chef’s tasting menu wine and beverages View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Newsletter Block This newsletter signup form needs a storage option.
Menu
Omnivore and vegetarian tasting menus are published; no a la carte menu is offered.
Occasion fit
Special-occasion dinner; chef-counter experience; tasting-menu date; destination dining.
Hours
Le Pigeon is open nightly for dinner.
Reservations
Reservations are recommended for dining-room tables and the chef counter. The official site presents booking from the main page. Availability from the restaurant's own pages: we’d love to see you LE PIGEON IS OPEN NIGHTLY Reservations are recommended for dining room tables and the chef’s counter. Commitment terms from the restaurant's own pages: chef’s tasting menu wine and beverages View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Newsletter Block This newsletter signup form needs a storage option.
Price
The restaurant currently operates as tasting-menu-only. Confirm the active omnivore and vegetarian tasting-menu prices on the booking page before reserving.
Dietary
Separate omnivore and vegetarian tasting menus are published. Other dietary modifications, allergy feasibility, and cross-contact controls require direct confirmation.
Beverage
Wine and beverage menus are published alongside the tasting menus.
Groups & private
Best suited to small parties and chef-counter dining rather than flexible large-group meals. Seating evidence from the restaurant's own pages: we’d love to see you LE PIGEON IS OPEN NIGHTLY Reservations are recommended for dining room tables and the chef’s counter.
Atmosphere
Compact, chef-driven Portland dining room with a close view of the kitchen and a deliberately focused tasting-menu format.
Accessibility
The restaurant has never said.
Parking & transit
Parking and transit details were not published on the reviewed first-party pages; confirm access for your arrival window.
Dress
No formal dress code was stated on the reviewed first-party pages.
Typical meal length
Plan for a full tasting-menu evening.
Practical notes
There is no a la carte path. Choose between the omnivore and vegetarian tasting menus and confirm dietary feasibility before booking.
Address
738 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214
Conflicting information
Retain each source, date and field conflict; do not select the more favorable statement without evidence.
Source quality
Official restaurant website / first-party page
Confidence
moderate_with_conflict
Freshness
CURRENT_WITH_OFFICIAL_CONFLICTS
Likely to change
Availability, dietary and cross-contact claims require same-cycle confirmation; hours, reservations and price are reviewed within 7 days; menu and access statements within 31 days.
What to verify next
Sources reachable as of 2026-08-05; official conflicts still open — do not collapse to friendlier claim. Reconfirm live before booking.

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