Food Carts Portland

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 couple [...]

Location: SW 10th and Alder (on Alder)
Description:
Up of SW 10th avenue, years before the most recent food carts arrived, Ugarit has been serving up gyro and falafel to Portland’s lunch crowd. Specializing in Mediterranean food, Mohammad, the owner, greets you with a smile and sometimes a sample of his daily soup. That is what occurred [...]

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 had to [...]

Location: SW 10th and Alder (west of 10th)
Description:
Even with fall in the air and winter on the way, there isn’t a reason to leave the taste of BBQ to summer’s past. There are plenty of places in Portland to get your BBQ fix during the colder months.  BBQ Fusion has joined them.
BBQ Fusion offers up [...]

Location: SW 10th and Alder (facing 10th)
Description:
Sandwiches. Is there anything more satisfying than a good sandwich for lunch. I have fond memories of making basic cheese and ham sandwiches when I was a kid. My parents always opted to add butter which I thought was gross. I used mustard to mix it up. These days, [...]

Location: SW 10th and Alder
Description:
EuroDish calls their food “Traditional Polish Home Style Cuisine.” When I see the words traditional and home style together, I get a little excited. To me, it means someone is trying to harken back to days of yore and replicate what they know to be the food of their homeland. At [...]

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 sitting next to their [...]

Location: SW 10th and Alder Parking Lot
Description:
Bratwurst.  Brat.  The best known and most basic of German Sausages.  Everyone knows it and everyone has had one – even veggies brats.  Jameson Wittkopp, the owner of Altengartz has built a business behind the Brat.  Not the bier sausage, not the weisswurst, not the kielbasa – just the [...]

Location: SW Alder and 10th (between 10th and 11th)
Description: Soup for the masses! Soup for the Soul! There is something so primitively comforting to me about a hot steaming bowl of soup served alongside a grilled cheese sandwich. It’s what I want to eat when I feel  blue. It’s what inspires me and refuels me [...]

UPDATED December 05, 2008
Recommended!
Location: SW 10th, between Alder and Washington

Description: A Vietnamese cart serving rice noodle bowls, grilled dishes, a Bahn Mi sandwich variety or two, a couple of lesser known Vietnamese options and the great soup export known as Pho. Huong’s has also recently expanded their vegetarian menu. There are now an equal number [...]