Food Carts Portland

Location: NE MLK and Graham at Dreamer’s Marketplace Hours: W-F, 8am-2pm; Sat/Sun, 9am-2pm The Story: There are so many types of breakfast foods available for someone in this city. Whether it be waffles or the greasy spoon or bagels or fast food, Portlanders have an abundance of choices. With the opening of Pepper Box, we [...]

Location: Roaming The Story: One trend that really took the food cart world by storm was to use social media as a tool to build buzz and a loyal audience. One tactic is to announce your location via Twitter. In other cities where the carts can’t necessarily park in the same spot every day, it [...]

Location: Dreamer’s Marketplace, NE MLK and Graham Hours: Tues-Sun, 11am-7pm The Story: When I first heard of Wet Hot Beef, I thought it was a sandwich name and not the actual name of the cart. I chuckled and then full belly laughed to learn that it was the cart name. Ingenious! Catchy! Memorable. One of [...]

Location: NE MLK at Lombard The Story: When I heard of this new truck’s name, I asked my friend to repeat it so I could hear the emphasis on the Yeah! Say it loud – Truck YEAH. Love the ingenious naming. Truck Yeah, a fully mobile truck for you looking for one to come to [...]

Location: E Burnside at 7th [updated August 2010] The Story: Another brilliantly reclaimed and well appointed travel trailer turned food cart has opened. As you roll up N Albina either driving or on your bike, you can’t help but snap your head at the bright green cart gleaming in the lot. Porridge is the work [...]

Location: E Burnside at 7th [Location updated July 2010] The Story: My neighborhood is getting more carts. How am I so lucky? And..I don’t live downtown. A new pod has sprouted up in a parking lot on N Albina at Blandena just south of Albina Press. The pod is only a few blocks north of [...]

Location: NE MLK and Graham at Dreamer’s Marketplace [updated August 2010] The Story: Do you ever wonder if an aspiring food cart owner would move to Portland just to open their cart and participate in this boom we are having? Wonder no more. Mark Simonds moved down from Tacoma to open his Olympic Hot Dogs [...]

Location: 6010 NE Killingsworth (next to the Best Fuel gas station/convenience store) The Story: Taqueria Mendoza is a little ocean blue trailer tucked into a scruffy strip on NE Killingsworth. It’s located in the Best Fuel gas station parking lot if that gives you any indication of the ambiance. Yet, Mendoza does this neighborhood a [...]

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: Area 23 Cart Pod 2314 N.E. Alberta St. The Story: This cart’s mission is an attempt to accomplish several things at once. It’s partially solar powered, sources most of its food from within a 200 mile radius, serves all manner of sweet and savory waffles to hungry Portlanders, and  is also a non-profit training [...]