The short answer
Portland's best small businesses span Powell's City of Books (the world's largest independent bookstore), third-wave roasters like Stumptown, Coava and Heart, Salt & Straw ice cream, local makers such as Portland Leather Goods, Kiriko Made and Orox Leather, record stores led by Music Millennium (open since 1969), and vintage hubs like House of Vintage and Sellwood Antique Row. They cluster along walkable shopping streets — Hawthorne, Alberta, Mississippi, NW 23rd and Sellwood — so plan a shopping day street by street.
Powell's is essential
The world's largest independent bookstore fills an entire city block.
Coffee capital
Stumptown, founded in Portland in 1999, is the city's original third-wave roaster.
