Akadi is a Black-owned,

West African West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ma ...

restaurant in

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, United States. Fatou Ouattara is the chef and owner.

Description

The menu specializes in cuisine from

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and the

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, and has seafood and vegetarian options. Options include

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s, plantain

fufu Fufu (or fufuo, foofoo, foufou ) is a pounded meal found in West African cuisine. It is a Twi word that originates from the Akans in Ghana. The word has been expanded to include several variations of the pounded meal found in other African c ...

, and

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History

Akadi originally operated at 3601 Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in the

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neighborhood. During the

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, business had declined by 50 percent, as of July 2020. In December 2020, Ouattara confirmed plans to close temporarily on December 31. Akadi reopened in southeast Portland's Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood in May 2022, along with its sister business, House of Flavor.

Reception

In 2018, Akadi was named one of Portland’s Best New Restaurants by ''

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''. In 2019, Michael Russell included Akadi in ''

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'' list of the city's 10 best new restaurants. He later included the business in the newspaper's 2025 list of the 21 best restaurants in southeast Portland. In 2020, '' Eater Portland'' 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. The website's Waz Wu included Akadi in a 2023 list of "Portland’s Primo Special Occasion Restaurants for Vegans and Vegetarians". Akadi was included in

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2024 list of Portland's best restaurants. The business was included in '' Time Out Portland'' 2025 list of the city's eighteen best restaurants.

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