Where to Dine and Drink in and Around Ladd’s Addition

A dish from Palomar. | Carla J. Peña/Eater Portland

The grid-defying, ahead-of-its-time Ladd’s Addition is a neighborhood-meets-maze, spokes and diagonals frustrating cross-town drivers and bikers who get caught by an accidental wrong turn. Still, it stands as a beautiful collection of historic architecture, rose gardens, handsomely mature deciduous trees, and a taste of an urban planning era that deprioritized speed for beauty. Almost entirely residential, Ladd’s residents must seek food and libation in the outside world of the north-south grid. Fortunately for them, some of Portland’s best restaurants, bars, and coffee shops are just a block or two away — the very reasons so

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