Food Carts Portland

[Updated 3/2010 - Stella's seems to have closed.] Location: SW 3rd and Stark Description: Over the past three weeks, I have seen this new cart go from drab white with yellow splotches to bright green with awnings, wondering the entire time what the owners have in store for us. Last week, I got a glimpse [...]

Closed as of May 2010 Location: SW 2nd and Stark Description: Remember the “baked potato bar” craze of the 1970s and 1980s? Shopping malls, all-you-can-eat buffets, and school cafeterias all seemed to bust out with some version or other. One could buy a pre-baked spud, then load up on toppings such as your standard butter [...]

[Updated August 2010 - Cart has closed. Alberta waffle window still open] Location: SW 4th and Hall Description: A couple of years ago, I would never have thought that waffles could be the focus of a cart. That was because I wasn’t thinking outside the box. I was thinking of the waffles of my youth [...]

[Updated July 2010: Closed] Location: SW 5th and College Description: I didn’t realize that what Portland’s food cartopia sorely needed was African-Caribbean specialties until I made a visit to the Asaase Ital Palace by PSU’s cart cluster.  It’s only about two months old, and my previous attempts to sample its wares were foiled by random [...]

[CLOSED February 2010] Location: SW 3rd and Ash [updated 9/09] Description: Up on the west side of 10th ave some new carts have sprung up – Nong’s, Savor Soup house and now The Limp Noodle.  I chuckled when I first saw the name – pretty cheeky and a good play on words. You cannot miss [...]

[Closed July 2010] Location: SW 3rd and Ash St Description: One of those days.  You wander and you wander by 10, then 20, then 30 different food carts and nothing strikes your fancy.  You just about to grab something you know will be good, but it isn’t what you’re craving when you decided to walk [...]

[Updated 3/2010 - cart no longer at this location - unknown whereabouts.] Location: SW Moody and Abernathy in South Waterfront Description: Vittles. Love that word. Vittles. I think I actually use it more in casual conversation than I am aware of. When I heard there was a cart named Po’ Town Vittles, I knew I [...]

CLOSED MARCH 2009 Update: May, 2009 Location: SE 12th and Hawthorne This charming little cart relocated from SW 9th and Alder to SE 12th and Hawthorne, but sadly closed in early 2009. However, the equally charming owner wanted to let everyone what’s been happening in her fine cooking universe. “Dear CBF, I wanted to update [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]