PODs, PAM, Sunday Parkways and More

All the news that’s fit to eat!

This summer, the Portland Art Museum is throwing the doors open for Free Fourth Friday! Admission to the museum is free every fourth Friday from 5-8pm and they will be having live music and food carts available in the courtyard. Head on down for some culture and try some snacks from Koi Fusion, The Village Crepery and Ruby Jewel Ice Cream. More information at Portland Art Museum.
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Sunday Parkways is back, this time in North Portland. This Sunday, the 27th, thousands of Portlanders and their families will take to the streets for the second Sunday Parkways event of the year. The route will snake through the car free streets of North Portland with numerous parks along the way offering activities for kids young and old. Food Carts will also be out including Dixon’s Rib Pit, Fuego, Island Daydream Shave Ice, Scoop Ice Cream, ACME Donut, Saigon Kitchen, Village Crepery, Fifty Licks, Headwaters Café and Voodoo Doughnuts to name a few. Fun day to get out, explore the city on a bike or just by foot and meet your neighbors.  More information, including maps.

OMG, so much more after the jump..
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Sunday will be a busy day in north Portland. North Station, one of the newer pods, is celebrating their grand opening with kids activities, live music and food from any one of the 15 carts there.  Located on the corner of N Greeley and Killingsworth, the pod offers up tasty vittles from the likes of Brown Chicken Brown Cow, Brother Bob’s Bakery, PDX671, Starchy and Husk, Savvy Js, Saucy’s Ribs, Sila Thai, Yogio, Olympic Hot Dogs, El Rancho, Wicked Waffles, Caraquena, Scoop and the anchor building which houses Pizza Depokos. The event runs from 8am-8pm so you can go before or after the bike ride if you decide you want to do both. Be aware that North Station is inside the route of the Sunday Parkways, so you may want to bring a map so you can park elsewhere and walk over. Or take public transportation. More Info.
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There is a new pod looking for vendors down in SE Portland. Real Good Food Belmont is accepting applications for carts to setup shop on SE 43rd and Belmont. Eighteen spaces available. More information at RealGoodFoodBelmont.com.
[Full Disclosure – Real Good Food Belmont has purchased advertising on FoodCartsPortland]
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Speaking of pods:
Dreamer’s Marketplace on NE MLK between Knott and Graham streets celebrated opening this past weekend with an open air arts and crafts market. They plan on having space for 14 carts, but are trying to incorporate non-food vendors in their plan also. If you are looking for a spot, contact them at DreamersPDX.com.

Since it seems all the pods on the east side have proper names, I think the westsiders are scheming to formalize their place in the scene. The pod at SW 3rd and Ash where Big-Ass Sandwiches and Rick’s Wild Seafood and Flavour Spot 3 are is now named Lot 94. I like it.
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Local darlings Pink Martini recently released a video featuring food carts. It is pretty fun to watch and see how a cart is incorporated into a sexy french song. Can you figure out which cart this is?

Sandwish from Kate Reynolds on Vimeo.

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Crystal Beasley has an idea. She wants to incorporate a food cart into her study of human behavior with games. Her plan is to open PieLab in Pioneer Courthouse Square 4th of July weekend and play games with her customers who come and order pie. What kind of games? Well, what if you ordered chocolate and got vanilla? The next patron may get your chocolate because the previous customer ordered vanilla. Get it? Sounds fun and unique, just what succeeds here in Portland. Crystal needs some additional funds to get her unique project off the ground and has set herself up on KickStarter. Toss in a few bucks if you feel so inclined. More information about the project at KickStarter.
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New carts in the past few weeks :
Curbside Grill – SE 13th and Lexington
Wholly Crepe – SE 50th and Divison
Kim Jong’s Grillin’ – SE 48th and Division
Pastrami on Rye – SE 4th and Hall
Lovin’ Spoonful – SE 2nd and Oak
Steve’s Chicken and Waffles – SE 3th and Hawthorne
Crème de la Crème – SE 33rd and Hawthorne
StreetWheels – cupcakes on the move
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Lastly, we’ve been giving out some stickers and we have more. Find us out and about and we’ll pass some on. We’ll even be riding the Sunday Parkways, so stop us and ask. If you see our stickers in the wild, let us know. Snap a photo and post it on our Facebook page.

Happy Summer (finally)