Food Carts Portland

Location: SE 43rd and Belmont Hours: Daily, 11:30-7pm The Story: Portland loves Thai food. That is apparent with Thai restaurants and food carts available in most every neighborhood in the city. Lately though, we’ve been introduced to a new approach to the cuisine – Northern Thai. SE Portland now gets to enjoy what downtown has [...]

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 43rd and Belmont Hours: Wed-Sat, 11am-7pm The Story: Tucked in the back of Good Food Here, I spied an old 1960s school bus with a cool paint job and a great awning to protect us from the sun. Here housed Crème de la Crème, a cart which believes in “food for the people. [...]

Location: SE 43rd and Belmont Hours: Mon-Sat, 11am-7pm The Story: Good Food Here. That is the name of the newest pod in SE Portland hosting food carts. I believe every pod could take on this title in this fine city with all the wonderful carts we have. One addition to the new pod is Dog [...]

Slow & Low, a wonderful sandwich cart moved from N Albina to a new pod on E Burnside at 7th. They are set to open today, Friday, with their signature pork confit and pork butt sandwiches. I believe they will keep their lunch hours and be open into the evening. We’ll visit to get the [...]

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: SE 33rd and Hawthorne The Story: One may think we have too many taco trucks. By last count, 15% of carts are Mexican Taquerias. But is that bad? I don’t think so because each one provides something different whether it is better service, better chorizo, handmade tortillas or an item not on everyone else’s [...]

Location: SE 33rd and Hawthorne The Story: Hawthorne, always a destination spot for many Portlanders, is now a destination for food cart lovers. With Cartopia at SE 12th and Hawthorne redefining late night nosh, and the venerable Whole Bowl up around 40th, Hawthorne knows food. Now, a new pod has spring up in front of [...]