Oct
31
2009
Location: SW 9th and Alder
Description:
Spella Cafe is considered one of the best espresso carts in the city. Spella has been noted in numerous publications for the quality of their roast and artisanship of the preparation. I have been to Spella many times over the past few years – mostly to enjoy a quick doppio [...]
Oct
30
2009
Location: N Mississippi and Skidmore as part of Mississippi Marketplace
Description:
This past week, at the grand opening of PROST!, a German pub that anchors the Mississippi Marketplace compound, we started to get a little hungry for something different. The pub did have menu items, but we wanted to take advantage of the entire lot and eat [...]
Oct
28
2009
A couple of announcements about Mississippi Marketplace today:
PROST!, the German pub that anchors the Mississippi Marketplace lot will open today – Wednesday – at 4pm. I’m so excited. Grab a carne adovada sopapilla from Nuevo Mexico and enjoy it with a nice cool German pilsner. Ahh, heaven.
The SugarCube, Kir Jensen’s dessert mecca formerly of downtown, [...]
Oct
28
2009
Location: SW 10th and Alder St.
Description:
The pod at SW 10th and Alder st. keeps growing, eventhough a long time cart like Asian Station has closed and is now for sale. Two spots up 10th sees the arrival of Ali Baba’s Turkish kitchen. I decided to stop by this week and see what they had to [...]
Oct
27
2009
Location: NE 14th and Alberta
Description:
Saturday, after some wonderful estate sales on the east side of Portland, we were on our way back home with the siren song of food cart lunch pulled us up to NE Alberta. Some of the carts were closed or very crowded, so we continued west when we saw this new [...]
Oct
26
2009
News News News:
Asian Station, a pretty nice cart in a prime location on SW 10th and Alder (right on the corner) has closed and is for sale. If interested, you can contact asianstationcafe@comcast.net.
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Speaking of carts for sale, there is a cart located at NE 23rd and Alberta that is fully equipped and for sale @ [...]
Oct
25
2009
Location: Mississippi Marketplace – N. Mississippi ave at Skidmore
Description:
Along with the numerous wonderful carts that make up Mississippi Marketplace is Dogfeather’s coffee and juice. Dogfeather’s was one of the first to open and has been doing well. Parked next to a breakfast cart as good as The Big Egg probably doesn’t hurt.
Dogfeather’s gets its name [...]
Oct
23
2009
Location: SW 3rd and Oak
Description:
There seem to be a ton of new hot dog and sausage carts cropping up of late. Historically, hot dog and sausage vendors were the only food carts in town. Here in Portland, other cuisines and carts have outnumbered them now for awhile, but the tenacious hot dog vendors are back [...]
Oct
21
2009
Location: 3441 N. Vancouver Avenue (corner of N. Vancouver and Fremont)
Description: Indian food cooked the South African way, with a home style touch cooked by a real “Mum” and daughter team. What’s that you say? South African Indian food? Who has ever heard of such a thing?
Well, millions of lucky South Africans that’s who, and [...]
Oct
20
2009
Ever wonder what would happen when you take an item from one food cart and let another food cart “mash it up!” Well, my good friend Justin (@Nerdliness on Twitter) decided today was the day he would take a traditional meal and make it crazy delicious.
Justin visited the brofamous Bro-Dogs and on SW 5th and [...]