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"Set in a massive apartment-and-retail development in Lake Oswego at 4055 Mercantile Drive, Mercato Grove functions as a Chefstable 'campus' that feels like a restaurant row: a crescent of spots where diners can move from egg-topped carbonara to rhubarb pop tarts to griddled mortadella sandwiches and then stroll to Fills for soft-serve sundaes and Berliners. Within a single development visitors can find steak frites, salted caramel Berliners, hardcore sandwiches, casual pastas, wood-fired pizzas, and an impressive lineup of beers; Chefstable plans to build a much larger shared outdoor space so guests can eventually get dishes and drinks from multiple restaurants and share them at one table, but for now the complex is best set up for a food crawl." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden