Mole oaxaqueno at El Yike Oaxaqueno. | Nathan Williams/Eater Portland
Best known for the large park at its center — featuring one of the city’s best playgrounds, with a climbing wall and “king of the mountain” synthetic hill — Arbor Lodge is an atypical destination for Portlanders from other parts of town. Easily missed on the way between trendy Mississippi and St. Johns, Arbor Lodge brushes up against two major arterials in Lombard and Interstate, and is served by the MAX’s yellow line, but is rarely a destination itself. As such, the riches of its food and drink scene are found in unabashedly casual settings,
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