Food Carts Portland

*Photos provided by Tim Roth. You should hire him because he’s really good.
Location: NW 8th and Couch
Description: Eating good Thai food can be a revelation. Julia Child once said she never really knew good French food until she went to France. Thailand is my France. My initial visit to the “Land of Smiles” was in [...]

Location: SW 3rd and Washington
Description:
I have been a fan of Tito’s Burritos for a few years now.  I moved back downtown for work in 2004 and quickly jumped back into the food cart scene.  I was so jones’n for some great tacos.  It took me a few years to actually discover Tito’s and thier $1.25 [...]

Location: Here, There and Everywhere! This one was spotted on NW 4th and Davis, downtown.
Description: Cute little tricycle powered ice cream carts found in a neighborhood near you.
Sample Menu:

All the usual ice cream cart suspects. Fruit Freezes, Creamcicles, Ice Cream Sandwiches, Rocket Pops, Push-ups, Choco-Tacos, Drumsticks, and more!
Personally, I love the idea of pedal [...]

Attention budding “cartepeneurs” (I koined that term. Get it? Cart + Entrepreneur = Cartepreneur!) I crack myself up. Anyhoo…
The Los Reyes Mexican Food cart at SW 9th, near SW Washington St. has been for sale for a few months now.
I don’t know the details, but I do know the cart is fully functioning and operational.
Call [...]

Closed as of Oct. 27, 2009. Cart now under new ownership.
Location: SW 9th and Stark (9th and Alder parking lot)
Description:
I was looking for something different for lunch on this beautiful sunny spring day.  One of Portland’s first of the year.  I had seen that some new carts had sprung up in the 9th and Alder [...]

Location: SW 10th and Alder Parking Lot
Description:
Bratwurst.  Brat.  The best known and most basic of German Sausages.  Everyone knows it and everyone has had one – even veggies brats.  Jameson Wittkopp, the owner of Altengartz has built a business behind the Brat.  Not the bier sausage, not the weisswurst, not the kielbasa – just the [...]

My peeps over at Willamette Week are holding their second annual EAT MOBILE event this coming Saturday, April 18, from 5:30-9:30 pm, at the Disjecta space at 8371 N. Interstate Avenue. Disjecta is conveniently located one block from the Interstate MAX stop at N. Denver. Get off MAX at the Kenton/N. Denver stop.
The cost is [...]

Fork ‘N’ Spoon is currently closed for business. Updated July 20, 2009.

I was down by the 5th and Stark pod and ran into JD Khar of Fork ‘N’ Spoon Delivery, a new food cart delivery service downtown.  This group of guys will utilize their feet and bikes to delivery your favorite food cart lunch direct [...]

There is a taco truck parked here sometimes…and sometimes it goes elsewhere. There seems to be no rhyme or reasons to its mysterious disappearences and reappearences.
It’s on the corner of NW Davis and 4th Ave. Anyone have any idea?

Location: 804 SW 12th Ave and Yamhill (located on Yamhill, next to India Chaat House)
Description: The Chaat is back! (Updated May 17) There was some sort of family split WHICH IS NONE OF OUR BUSINESS, but the former cook/owner/or something from India Chaat next door just simply reopened  a new name and a spiffed up [...]