“Build it and they will come” is the loose credo of real estate development, which panned out to be so with Portland developer Jonathan Culley’s opening several months ago of the new multi-family high rise (a whopping 4 stories), at the far-flung residences at 89 Anderson St.  in East Bayside. At the base of the building, now nearly fully rented, is another part of the formula, Baharat, an axiomatically hip, cool, trendy restaurant serving Middle Eastern food, which the city’s millennials are already lapping up after only 5 days in operation.

The Baharat main event at the bar

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