Food Carts Portland

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: SE 32nd and Hawthorne Hours: Tues-Sun, 11am-7pm The Story: Put a cowboy hat on a gun toting Frito chip and you have one heck of a logo. Add to that vintage wallpaper inside the already vintage cart and Rawhide playing on the back patio and I’m sold. Chili Pie Palace, a new cart on [...]

Location: SE 13th and Lexington Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12:30-8 or 9pm The Story: Summer is here and it brings the heat. While Portland doesn’t experience the heat like the south or the muggy conditions like the east cost, when the mercury crosses 80, we start to sweat and seek out the nearest water. Portlander’s also look [...]

Location: SW 4th and College Description: All Vegan Barbecue. Got that? All Vegan. I know that immediately throws a curve ball, but once you’ve tried it, you will say to yourself – “where has this been all my life?”  Homegrown Smoker is taking barbecue in a different direction, yet with reverence to barbecue’s history and [...]

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: SE 21st and Tibbetts The Story: SIP is one of those carts we have heard about for years, but have never had the pleasure of visiting. Now I kick myself for not going sooner. SIP is that shiny silver vintage trailer in the courtyard of People’s Co-Op in southeast Portland that serves up some [...]

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: N Killingsworth and Greeley in North Station The Story: Eat a lot! That is the saying in every Korean home when you sit down to a meal. I love it! I think it should be my mom’s dinner statement since she always tries to get one of us to finish off everything left on [...]

Location: Ala Cart cart pod. SE 102nd Ave and Stark The Story: The Shalimar Cafe cart  in Portland’s gritty outer SE 102nd Ave and Stark Street is worlds away from the ancient and majestic Shalimar Gardens in Pakistan. Yet, Portland’s Shalimar Cafe is 100% authentic Indian/Pakistan in both food and spirit. North India and Pakistan [...]