Kann

Kann is a live-fire Haitian restaurant from James Beard Award-winning chef Gregory Gourdet, in Portland's Buckman/Central Eastside neighborhood. After pandemic-delayed pop-up and "Kann Winter Village" yurt iterations beginning in 2020, the permanent restaurant opened in August 2022. Its name means "cane" (sugarcane) in Haitian Creole, a nod to Gourdet's childhood memories of sugarcane vendors in Haiti. The menu pairs traditional Haitian flavors with Pacific Northwest ingredients and is entirely gluten- and dairy-free. Kann won the 2023 James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant, was named the #1 Best New Restaurant in America by Esquire, and later placed #27 on North America's 50 Best Restaurants (2025).

Gourdet, who has been sober for over 15 years, treats the non-alcoholic program as a co-equal part of the beverage list rather than an afterthought, with the NA wines, ciders and cocktails listed on the first page of the drink menu alongside their full-proof counterparts. Verified zero-proof cocktails on Kann's own menu include AN LÒ (pineapple, yellow bell pepper, ginger, lime), ANME DOUS (hibiscus, lime, mint, clove, n/a juniper spirit, ginger), SOUF TWOPIK (papaya and passionfruit tea, lime, pineapple, soursop nectar), KOWOSÒL (soursop nectar, coconut milk, lemon, maple), and KANN KOLA (a house Haitian spice blend, coffee caramel, grapefruit spirit, lime, sparkling). The downstairs bar Sousòl extends the same philosophy with its own deep roster of non-alcoholic drinks, landing on Esquire's 2023 Best Bars in America list.