Food Carts Portland

Location: SE 50th, South of Division Hours: Everyday, 10am-9pm The Story: In the shadow of Mt. Tabor, a new pod is taking shape just south of Division St. on 50th. With a mixture of trucks, buses and carts new and old, every pod needs a Mexican taqueria and Azul Tequila fills that need. Azul Tequila [...]

Location: SE 43rd and Belmont Hours: Mon-Sun, 11:30am-9pm The Story: Every so often you want some simple well made Mexican food. Las Loncheritas, now relocated to the Good Food Here pod sates that need for a cheap well made taco or burrito. Las Loncheritas isn’t just inexpensive, they offer a broad menu of items for [...]

Location: SE 20th and Morrison Hours: Tues-Sat, 12-8pm The Story: Take a moped, one of those older ones that you can pedal, replace the front with a two wheeled storage chest and you have Treat Machine, a cart focusing on what’s simple – the taco. The Treat Machine was built and is pedaled daily by [...]

Location: NE MLK and Graham at Dreamer’s Marketplace Hours: W-F, 8am-2pm; Sat/Sun, 9am-2pm The Story: There are so many types of breakfast foods available for someone in this city. Whether it be waffles or the greasy spoon or bagels or fast food, Portlanders have an abundance of choices. With the opening of Pepper Box, we [...]

Location: SE 33rd and Hawthorne The Story: One may think we have too many taco trucks. By last count, 15% of carts are Mexican Taquerias. But is that bad? I don’t think so because each one provides something different whether it is better service, better chorizo, handmade tortillas or an item not on everyone else’s [...]

Location: SW 3rd and Washington The Story: Twist and Shout! That’s what I wanted to do after eating at the newest cart from SW 3rd and Washington. Yet another cart has squeezed into one of the open spots at the SW 3rd lot and they are serving up some tasty Korean food…with a twist. Korean [...]

Location: SW 10th and Alder The Story: A new taqueria is open up off SW 10th and Alder in the cluster that includes Nong’s, SomTum Gai Yang and Savor Soup House. Some tough competition! Yet, Don Pedro’s meets the expectations and serves up a tasty and affordable meal. Don Pedro’s is a traditional taco cart [...]

Location: SE 48th and Division The Story: There’s a new pod growing organically down of Division at 48th and Peace, Love & Tacos joined just a couple of weeks ago. We heard about this new cart via our Facebook page and thought we should go check them out. Peace, Love & Tacos is the work [...]

Location: NE 102nd and Stark The Story: We all know that Portland has more than a few Mexican food trucks and taquerias. What sets one apart from another? Is it the way they prepare Carne Asada or Carnitas? Is it that they serve lengua (tongue) or cabeza (beef cheek?) Or is it that we actually [...]

Location: 6010 NE Killingsworth (next to the Best Fuel gas station/convenience store) The Story: Taqueria Mendoza is a little ocean blue trailer tucked into a scruffy strip on NE Killingsworth. It’s located in the Best Fuel gas station parking lot if that gives you any indication of the ambiance. Yet, Mendoza does this neighborhood a [...]