Food Carts Portland

Location: SW 3rd and Washington (Sonny Bowl cart) The Story: “Feel Yummy! Be Healthy! Eat bloop!” That’s the slogan of a new venture downtown started by Kat and Matt, the owners of bloop, who spells their cart name with the lowercase b in case you were wondering. While Portland does have carts that specialize in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Location: SW Mill st, between 6th and Broadway Description: Coffee. $1. What else is there to say? Simple. Straight forward. Good tasting coffee. $1. Boy Gorilla coffee figured this one out. All around the Portland State University campus are both corporate and non corporate coffee shops. Last I visited one, a small cup of black [...]

Location: N. Mississippi at Skidmore in Mississippi Marketplace Description: Breakfast! The most important meal of the day. Isn’t that what we’ve learned all our lives? And yet, what do we eat when running out the door trying to get to the office or run that important errand – coffee, pastries… or something like that. I [...]

Location: SW 5th, between Oak and Stark Description: Welcome to the strip Brunch Box. So excited for you to join us. The Brunch Box is a new cart in the 5th avenue cart pod where Matlocks used to be. They’ve only been open a couple of weeks now and you can see by their menu, [...]