Urdaneta How to eat and drink your way through Portland’s famous Alberta Arts District Alberta Street is one of the most prominently featured neighborhoods in Portland tourism guides. Few other streets, if any, can boast a similar density of restaurants, art galleries, bout ique stores, and coffee shops. The portion of the street between NE Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and NE 33rd Avenue has held the moniker Alberta Arts District since the nineties, thanks to the indie art culture that’s still going strong in the galleries on Alberta today. But just as much as it’s known for art, Alberta Street is also known as one of the most heavily gentrified areas in Portland. Alberta was a historically Black neighborhood and was also home to a sizable Latino community, but by the mid-2000s, the racial makeup of North and Northeast Portland neighborhoods including Alberta had dramatically shifted, continuing in the decades after. In recent years, groups such as Self Enhancement, Inc. have worked to offset some of the effects of gentrification by building affordable housing for communities with historical ties to the neighborhood. Today’s dining scene on Alberta is wide-ranging, with an array of cultures represented. This map dives into some of the finest dining and drinking in the neighborhood, including a couple of longstanding Ethiopian restaurants, a Vietnamese American take on brunch, top-tier food carts, and a subterranean wine bar serving dealer’s choice pours. — Additional reporting by Rebecca Roland and Brooke Jackson-Glidden. ...read more read less