A Guide to Food Carts in Portland Oregon
Location: SW Alder and 10th (between 10th and 11th)
Description: Soup for the masses! Soup for the Soul! There is something so primitively comforting to me about a hot steaming bowl of soup served alongside a grilled cheese sandwich. It’s what I want to eat when I feel blue. It’s what inspires me and refuels me when I’m having a rough day, a good day or simply just want some timber in my belly. Soup is the type of food to calm ones nerves and revive when the world seems unsteady and uncertain.
Well, the weather outside was frightful. Which is why you haven’t seen that much activity on Food Carts Portland lately. There hasn’t been much going on really due to Portland’s Snowpocalypse ’08 which shut down many of the carts and the city as a whole. Along with the holidays and my own travel and work commitments, I’ve also been a twee busy. I apologize for the lack of recent posts.
However, now that we’ve recovered from the Great Storm of oh-aught, I do have quite a bit of cart news to report:
New Food Cart “Pod” Downtown?
I was driving down SW Naito near Skidmore Fountain (you know, where Saturday Market is located) and noticed a sprinkling of new carts in one location, including a FISH AND CHIPS cart. (Yes, Matt Davis, this one’s for you). This might be part of the Mercy Corps sponsored immigrant run food cart program or something else, but I’ll try to walk down there next week and check it out.
Do Svidaniya* to Julia’s Russian Cart
I don’t have the whole story, but sadly it looks like Julia’s Russian Food on SW Alder near 10th has shuttered its window and door and is now closed. The cart remains, but the sign is gone. I’ll miss Julia’s warm smile along with her rib sticking and warming Borscht and tender Pelmini dumplings. If anyone knows the 411 on what happened or where she went, please let me know.
*means, “see you later” in Russian
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