Reeva (restaurant)

Reeva Cafe y Cocina a la Leña
Interactive map of Reeva Cafe y Cocina a la Leña
Restaurant information
EstablishedApril 2022 (2022-04)
Owners
  • Roberto Hernandez Guerrero
  • Roseva Alcerro
Food typeLatin American
LocationPortland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States
Coordinates45°33′03″N 122°35′01″W / 45.5507°N 122.5836°W / 45.5507; -122.5836

Reeva Cafe y Cocina a la Leña, or simply Reeva, was a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. The Latino-owned business was established by Roberto Hernandez Guerrero and Roseva Alcerro in 2022. It served Neapolitan pizzas with Latin American ingredients, among other dishes. Reeva garnered a positive reception and was named one of Portland's best new food carts by The Oregonian and Eater Portland. It closed permanently in 2025.

Description

The Latino-owned restaurant Reeva operated from a food cart on Sandy Boulevard in northeast Portland's Roseway neighborhood.[1] A nearby courtyard had tables made from oak barrels as well as potted plants.[2] Influenced by Honduran, Italian, Mexican, and Peruvian cuisines,[3] Reeva served Neapolitan pizzas with ingredients such as jalapeño, pepperoni, Mama Lil's Peppers, pesto, and red onion.[4] Other special pizzas used burrata, cactus chimichurri, and prosciutto.[2] The Machu pizza had a salsa Hauncaína base and Peruvian ingredients such as a sauce with cheese and chilis. The menu included a "pizzaleada", based on the Honduran baleada with refried beans, cheese, and sour cream.[5][6] The restaurant also served baked chilaquiles, steak and eggs, and huevos rotos, which had egg, wood-fired potatoes, arugula, and romesco. Coffee was on the breakfast menu;[5] among espresso drinks were cafe con leches and cortados.[7] The Green G.O.A.T. was a smoothie with fermented coconut yogurt, fruit, ginger, seasonal greens, lime, and mint.[8]

History

Spouses Roberto Hernandez Guerrero and Roseva Alcerro started Reeva as a food cart in April 2022.[5] As of 2023, Reeva was one of two pizzerias in Portland serving portafoglio pizza.[9]

In November 2025, Reeva closed indefinitely after Guerrero was denied re-entry to the U.S.[10][11][12] The food cart was put up for sale in January 2026.[13][14]

Reception

Reeva ranked second in The Oregonian's list of Portland's best new food carts of 2022.[15] In his list of the ten best dishes he ate in the city in 2022, the newspaper's Micheal Russell ranked the pizzaleada sixth and wrote, "in its basic form, the combination of chewy dough, melted mozzarella, sour cream (and perhaps the addition of a flash-cooked egg), will be one of the tastiest things you eat this year".[16]

The business won in the Best New Food Cart of Eater Portland's annual Eater Awards in 2022. The website's Janey Wong included Reeva in a 2023 list of twelve "remarkable" restaurants in the Rose City Park and Roseway neighborhoods,[7] and Brooke Jackson-Glidden and Rebecca Roland included the business in a 2024 overview of the best pizzas in the Portland metropolitan area.[4] Wong and Nick Woo also included Reeva in the website's 2024 guide to Portland's "most outstanding" food carts.[17] The business was also included in the website's 2025 overview of Portland's best food carts.[18]

In 2023, Katherine Chew Hamilton included the Huitlacoche pizza in Portland Monthly's overview of the city's rarest regional dishes[3] and Lindsay D. Mattison ranked the business number twenty in Tasting Table's list of Portland's best pizza.[19] Krista Garcia included Reeva in The Infatuation's 2024 list of the city's best food carts.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Graves, Mark. "Reeva Cafe y Cocina a la Leña, a food cart located in on Sandy Blvd. in NE Portland, Sept. 4, 2022". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "The 18 Best Food Carts In Portland 2024 - Portland, OR". The Infatuation. May 24, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Where to Find Portland's Rarest Regional Dishes". Portland Monthly. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  4. ^ a b Jackson-Glidden, Brooke (August 5, 2016). "Where to Find the Best Pizzas in Portland and Beyond". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on August 31, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Russell, Michael (May 5, 2022). "Reeva, with flavors from Honduras to Peru, ranks among Portland's best wood-fired pizzerias". The Oregonian. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  6. ^ "Reeva is a new Northeast Portland food truck serving wood-fired pizzas and more". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  7. ^ a b Wong, Janey (August 7, 2023). "12 Remarkable Restaurants in Roseway and Rose City Park". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on June 16, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  8. ^ "Roseway Is Packed With Places to Discover Right in the Heart of Sandy Boulevard". Willamette Week. May 29, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  9. ^ Russell, Michael (August 15, 2023). "Upcoming Portland pizzeria Grana specializes in Naples-style folded pizzas. Rick Steves is to thank". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on July 5, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  10. ^ "Reeva Closes Indefinitely After Co-Owner Is Denied Reentry to the United States". Willamette Week. November 26, 2025. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  11. ^ Guzman, Dianne de (November 25, 2025). "New Orleans-Inspired Bar and Music Venue Lollipop Shoppe Closes". Eater Portland. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  12. ^ Russell, Michael (December 3, 2025). "Portland restaurant community rallies support behind pizza chef stranded in Mexico after devastating immigration setback". The Oregonian. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  13. ^ Pettigrew, Jashayla. "Portland food cart up for sale as owner undergoes visa process". KOIN.
  14. ^ "Portland food truck closes after owner is denied return to U.S." Portland Business Journal. January 2, 2026. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  15. ^ "Portland's best new food carts of 2022". The Oregonian. September 13, 2022. Archived from the original on June 14, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  16. ^ Russell, Michael (December 22, 2022). "Portland's 10 best dishes of 2022". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on December 1, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  17. ^ Woo, Nick (June 10, 2015). "A Guide to Portland's Most Outstanding Food Carts". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on September 18, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  18. ^ Coleman, Ben (June 10, 2015). "The Best Food Carts in Portland". Eater Portland. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  19. ^ Mattison, Lindsay D. (May 8, 2023). "The Absolute Best Pizza In Portland, Ranked". Tasting Table. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
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