Food Carts Portland

Location: SW 10th and Alder Hours: Daily, 12-11pm The Story: A venerable old cart, Snow White House has been serving Portland crepes and sandwiches for over 13 years. Even before the current owners took it over back in the 90′s, it was acting as a food cart downtown. Talk about the stories that cart may [...]

Location: SW Alder, between 10th and 11th Hours: Monday-Friday, 11am-4pm The Story: Over the past month or so we have been able to follow the opening story of The Dump Truck on Twitter, learning about building the cart, sourcing equipment and getting inspections. The challenge was, with the name dumptruckpdx on Twitter, we just couldn’t [...]

Location: SW 10th and Alder Hours: Monday-Saturday, 11am-5pm The Story: Many Portland cart fans mourned the closing of Asian Station in 2009. The cute little cart with the cedar mansard roof sat empty and for sale for more than a few months. Then, in February, a new roof and bright blue paint showed up along [...]

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: 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: 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]