Featured$$Osteria DOP
Downtown
Neapolitan pizza and hand-made pasta downtown, with the kitchen open to the room. The one to book if you only book one.
ItalianPizzaPasta
Featured$$$Marché
5th Street Public Market
Eugene's long-running French room, cooking the valley's own farms. Le Bar alongside it runs later on weekends.
FrenchPacific NorthwestWine
Featured$$Bar Purlieu
South Willamette
A small French bar with a serious wine list and a menu that changes with what's good that week.
FrenchWine barSmall plates
$$Beppe & Gianni's Trattoria
Near campus
A neighbourhood trattoria near campus that fills up on game weekends. Expect a wait and a bowl of something rich at the end of it.
ItalianFamilyNear campus
$$Fisherman's Market
West Eugene
Counter-serve seafood from an Alaskan fishing family — fish and chips, chowder, live crab. Casual, quick, and the real thing.
SeafoodCasualLunch
$Tacovore
Whiteaker
Tacos in the Whiteaker, which is the neighbourhood to walk around before or after. Counter service, patio, no ceremony.
MexicanTacosCasual
$$Party Bar
Downtown
Cocktails and bar food downtown from the Party Downtown team. The dining room next door has closed; the bar is the part that's still going.
CocktailsLateDowntown
$Noisette Pastry Kitchen
Downtown
Pastry and coffee downtown, and the answer to breakfast before a noon kickoff. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
BakeryCoffeeBreakfast
VariesHayward Field
University of Oregon
The rebuilt home of Oregon track and field, and one of the sport's cathedrals — worth walking past even with nothing on, for the tower and the sweep of the stands.
LandmarkSportCampus
FreeAlton Baker Park & Pre's Trail
Riverfront
The city's riverside park, with the bark-chip loop named for Steve Prefontaine. Flat, shaded, and the easiest way to see the Willamette on foot.
ParkRunningFree
FreeSpencer Butte
South Eugene
The bigger climb: a wooded trail to a rocky summit with the Cascades on a clear day. Steep near the top, and worth the last scramble.
HikeViewpointFree