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By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:12:34 +0000

Vegan cart news alert: a very nice round up of vegan-friendly cart action by Jess at the lovely Get Sconed! blog: http://letsgetsconed.blogspot.com/2009/07/vegan-friendly-food-carts-in-portland.html

By: Jenn - Portland Pedal Power

Jenn - Portland Pedal Power — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:41:59 +0000

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By: Maija

Maija — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:39:45 +0000

@devlyn — sorry to disappoint, but there won’t be food carts at Director Park. The owner of Roux in N PDX is opening a restaurant there though called Violetta. I think there will be a lot of outdoor seating, so it will be a nice spot to eat food cart lunches in.

http://www.portlandfood.org/index.php?showtopic=7728

http://violettapdx.com/

By: xor

xor — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:54:51 +0000

not exactly food-cart related (sorry), but apparently this is what is going to go into the *building* at skidmore/mississippi, to be surrounded by (hopefully) many carts:

http://www.prosttavern.net/

if you are to trust the giant posters in the windows there, anyway. haha

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:35:12 +0000

I had the “red-red”, black-eyed peas in spiced tomato sauce with fried plantains and cassava grits. It was actually a pasty consistency, and really dense, but different and tasty. They do a couple combos like that – there were some lentil/bean and leafy green curries, they have a tofu scramble breakfast with potatoes and “Fry Bake” – little puffs of fried bread it looked like. Sambusas, peanut soup, and palm nut soup. The small curry plate was $6 and the large was $9.

And jerk chick-un, of course. They are kind of in a bad spot in the corner of the lot – so go show them some love!

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:55:18 +0000

Whoa, vegetarian Afro-Caribbean? Any hints on menu? Have to try that out!

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:07:14 +0000

That Mexican cart was sold and is already open as Asaase Ital, an all veg Afro-Caribbean cart! I ate lunch there today and it was great.

I don’t know anything food cart related, but I do know that N Williams and Shaver is the location that the old Cyan leasing office is supposed to be moved to. It’s been fully deconstructed here on 4th, so I don’t know where it’s at now. It be kind of cool if it had anything to do with the carts, but sad if it’s going to displace them.

By: xor

xor — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:07:02 +0000

i also am anxious about some cart action on skidmore/miss. (crosses fingers for an indian cart.) today they have really torn up the lot and are doing tons of landscaping prep.

fwiw, if people are looking for food carts to buy, craigslist probably has around 10 a week (some repeats, sure) up for grabs. just for kicks, i watch this rss feed: http://portland.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=food%20cart&format=rss

By: devlyn

devlyn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:09:50 +0000

I’m very much looking forward to Director Park’s completion to see what carts end up there…