Food Carts Portland

Location: SE 43rd and Belmont Hours: Daily, 11:30-7pm The Story: Portland loves Thai food. That is apparent with Thai restaurants and food carts available in most every neighborhood in the city. Lately though, we’ve been introduced to a new approach to the cuisine – Northern Thai. SE Portland now gets to enjoy what downtown has [...]

Location: SW 3rd and Washington The Story: You may think Portland is over saturated with Thai carts, yet over the past few months, I have discovered that each cart has their special and unique item that sets them apart from the other. Now we have a Thai cart focusing on Northern Thai cuisine. Gin Northern [...]

Location: SW 9th and Alder The Story: There has been a bit of shuffling around at the cart pod on SW 9th and Alder. Last fall, DNA Thai closed, but the cart was quickly repainted and reopened as a Thai Wings cart. I didn’t get a chance to visit before they moved and renamed, yet [...]

Location: SW Alder, between 10th and 11th The Story: Just when you thought another cart couldn’t fit on the expanding corner of SW 10th and Alder, you get an email about a new cart. The owners of SomTum Gai Yang contacted us a couple of weeks ago, announcing their opening. I mentioned it to a [...]

Location: SE 13th and Lexington, Sellwood The Story: The small block of food carts in Sellwood have seen some turnover during the past couple of years, some carts have shuttered while others have moved to different locations, which is completely natural – we’re talking mobile eateries here. Recently moving next door to Garden State [who [...]

Location: SW 3rd, between Washington and Stark Description: When I was looking for some good spicy Thai noodles last winter, a few friends recommended a place named I Love Thai Food. They thought it was down off 3rd avenue, but when I went down there, I couldn’t find said cart. I opted for a different [...]

Location: SW Alder in between SW 10th and 11th Description: Khao means rice in Thai. Gai means chicken. Khao Man Gai is one of my favorite Thai street food classics. See, Thailand is a country obsessed with food. They are also a country obsessed with street food. It’s not unusual to see Armani clad businessmen [...]

*Photos provided by Tim Roth. You should hire him because he’s really good. Location: SW 4th and Hall [Updated 3/2010] Description: Eating good Thai food can be a revelation. Julia Child once said she never really knew good French food until she went to France. Thailand is my France. My initial visit to the “Land [...]

Location: SW 4th Ave. between College and Hall Streets (near Portland State Campus) *photos provided by Tim Roth (Thanks Tim!) Description: A Thai cart serving up all the Thai cart standards such as curries, noodle dishes, stir fries and fried rice  as well as  things like salad rolls and Thai Coffee or Tea.  Food here [...]

Location: SW 4th Ave. in between College and Hall streets (near PSU) Description: I have no idea about the name Inter Selects and what it has to do with Thai food. However, I do know that this cart is pumping out one of the largest Thai cart menus with far from the standard Portland Thai [...]