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southern end, picnic tables are arranged beneath beautiful old-growth
trees.
Wander the length of Lents Park along the footpaths until you reach its
southern boundary, at SE Steele St.; turn left to get back to SE 92nd
Ave. At 92nd, turn right and walk several blocks toward Lents's town
center, such as it is.
At the corner of SE 92nd Ave. and Ramona St. you'll find the Ararat
Bakery, which is not only a bakery but also a restaurant (serving fant-
astic Eastern European-style home cooking) and sometimes an after-
hours lounge, depending on the day and the hour. There's also a shop
section where you can pick up imported goodies as well as take-home
versions of the baked goods.
Diagonally across SE 92nd Ave. is the site of the Lents International
Farmers Market (Sundays 11 a.m.-4 p.m., June-October), a relatively
new market with a cosmopolitan vibe so pronounced that the posters
and website that advertise it are rendered in five languages. The scope
of its offerings has started to draw shoppers from far-off neighborhoods
who are eager to try something new or hunting down a hard-to-find
specialty. Compared with other Portland markets, it's on the small side,
but it has a distinctive community-based feel that can't be missed.
A few blocks farther up, past a Mexican restaurant, a dodgy-looking
bar, and a sweet little coffee shop, you'll reach a stoplight and be faced
with the New Copper Penny. It looks totally uninspiring from this angle.
If you take a left up SE Foster Rd. and walk to the front entrance (you
can't miss the huge neon penny), it looks a bit less dire (at night any-
way) but is instead confusing: inside it's a gigantic
nightclub-steakhouse- sports-bar combo with a large and well-
equipped children's play area in one corner. Overall it has the feel of a
relic, though from what era we can't quite say. But if you have kids with
you and you'd like to park them somewhere while you enjoy a steak and
some booze and maybe a UFC fight on TV, you're in luck.
Cross back over to the other side of SE Foster Rd. and take the walk-
way left up to the Lents/SE Foster MAX Station, where you can catch
the Green Line back into town.
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