Mediterranean Exploration Company
The restaurants exterior, 2025
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Restaurant information
Established	2014 (2014)
Food type	Mediterranean
Location	Portland, Oregon, United States
Coordinates	45°31′32″N 122°41′04″W / 45.52561°N 122.68451°W / 45.52561; -122.68451

Mediterranean Exploration Company, or MEC, is a Mediterranean restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Pearl District, in the United States.^[1][2][3][4]

Description

The restaurant Mediterranean Exploration Company (or MEC) operates in northwest Portland's Pearl District. Food options include bacon-wrapped dates, falafel, mujaddara, and hummus with pita. The drink menu includes beer, cocktails, and wine, as well as tea and Turkish coffee.^[5]

History

The restaurant opened in August 2014, in the space that previously housed Riffle NW.^[5][6]

Reception

Kara Stokes and Maya MacEvoy included MEC in Eater Portland's 2022 overview of recommended restaurants in the Pearl District.^[7] The website included the business in a similar list in 2025.^[8]

MEC was a runner-up in the Best Mediterranean Restaurant category of Willamette Week's annual Best of Portland readers' poll in 2015.^[9] It ranked third in the same category in 2016 and 2017.^[10][11]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mediterranean Exploration Company.

• Official website
• "Mediterranean Exploration Company". Eater Portland. Vox Media.
• "Mediterranean Exploration Company". Thrillist. October 5, 2017.
• "Mediterranean Exploration Company". Travel Portland.
• "Mediterranean Exploration Company". Tripadvisor.