Food Carts Portland

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 3rd and Ankeny The Story: 11pm on a Friday night and I needed to nosh. I knew there was a new cart downtown at SW 3rd so decided to pay Mason Goche (Go-Shay) and his Killa Dilla cart a visit. As I walked up, I asked what the specials were. Mason’s answer? “Fresh [...]

Location: SE 43rd and Belmont The Story: Take a bright fire engine red vintage travel trailer, create a menu of tasty panini style sandwiches and have owners who have been serving Portlanders for years and you get Rockabillies. And, just in time for summer night noshing downtown. [updated July 2010 - Rockabillies moved to SE [...]

Now that spring is here and we have more light and sunny weather approaching, Portanders are getting out and wanting to visit the food carts outside the traditional lunchtime hours. There are options for you later in the week and on the weekends. Sometimes they are carts that have later hours and other times it [...]

Location: SW 3rd and Ash The Story: If you were walking down the street and saw a guy in a hot dog suit dancing in the sidewalk, what would you do? What would you do? Well, we stopped for a tasty dog. Newcomers to the Ash St Pod are David and Jason who opened Big [...]

Location: N Lombard at N Richmond at Crystal Temple [updated August 2010] The Story: Catfish po’boy. Need I say more? North Portland for me has always been a place to find good southern style food. Now, with the opening of North Station, we have Saucy’s doing up some amazing BBQ ribs and now Savvy J’s [...]

Location: SW 3rd and Stark The Story: The food cart scene is starting to get crazy with spring in the air. When one cart closes, someone else is there to snatch it up and make it their own. Last year, we welcomed Stella’s on Stark only to see them close before the holidays. Just after [...]

Location: NE 23rd and Alberta The Story: A beautiful cart! That is really all that needs to be said about Inspire, a new food cart up at Area23 on NE Alberta that is fashioned out of a vintage Portland street car. A beautiful cart. I had heard that the cart was coming yet couldn’t imagine [...]

Location: SW 3rd and Stark The Story: Portland is blessed with an abundance of inexpensive Mexican taqueria carts and taco trucks. A few years ago, I even did a non-scientific survey to see which taqueria had the best carnitas tacos. In the end, no one won because they were all so good. Francisco Taqueria is [...]

Location: SE 12th and Hawthorne, Cartopia The Story: On Friday or Saturday night, I am a sucker for fries or a pizza or a pie – all the wonderful things available at Cartopia down on SE 12th and Hawthorne. Yet, sometimes, you have a craving for something a little different – maybe a po’boy or [...]