Is Rose City Park Portland's Friendliest Neighborhood?
Northeast Portland's Rose City Park might be the perfect neighborhood for you if you love snacking and being besties with your neighbors. Today we’re continuing our neighborhood guides — where we talk with Portlanders about the good, bad, and ugly of where they live — with longtime Rose City Park neighborhood resident (and City Cast's chief marketing officer) Gillian Kennedy.
Discussed in today's episode:
- Case Study Coffee
- Bakeshop
- Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai
- Owl & Bee Clay Company
- Puddletown Games & Puzzles
- Clyde's Prime Rib
- Little Griddle
- Baerlic at the Barley Pod
- Peter's Bar & Grill
- Mad Hanna
- Cutie Pie Pizzeria
- Javi's
- Black Water Records
- Rose City Park
- Rose City Bluff Restoration
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- Sticky Wicket Pub
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