Summer noodle salad at Kayo’s Ramen. | Nathan Williams / Eater Portland
Sugar-crusted conchas, plump xiao long bao, and earthy massaman lamb curry are just a few of the dishes that can be found steps from one another on North Williams Avenue’s densely packed dining strip. Only a few decades earlier, though, the neighborhood thrived but looked quite different.
Like nearby Mississippi Avenue, the modern North Williams Avenue rests on a legacy of harm done to the once-majority Black neighborhood and the decades of gentrification that followed. Then known as the “Black Broadway,” a swath of Williams and the surrounding neighborhood — including Black-owned
→ Continue reading at Eater