Food Carts Portland

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 some BBQ [...]

Location: SE 13th and Lexington, Sellwood
The Story:
The small block of food carts in Sellwood have seen some turnover during the past couple of years, some carts have shuttered while others have moved to different locations, which is completely natural – we’re talking mobile eateries here. Recently moving next door to Garden State [who are opening [...]

Garden State has quickly become everyone’s favorite cart. Most recently showcased on Good Morning America as one of the nation’s best food carts, Garden State is now the feature of our friends VendrTV.

Watch for Garden State news over the next couple of months as they move their Sellwood cart to a new location and open [...]

Location: SE 12th and Hawthorne
Description:
On a sunny Sunday, post Thanksgiving, no one wants leftovers. This is the time to go out and get something far different than what you have been consuming over the previous few days. Mexican food was the choice for me and we I decided on El Brasero, a Mexican taqueria in [...]

Location: 3131 SE 50th, 3 blocks north of Powell
Description:
Over the past few years, Portland has seen a wonderful growth in artisan style pizza. One doesn’t have to go far to pick up a pie that has been carefully prepared with local ingredients and baked to perfection. Now, enterprising entrepreneurs have taken their pizza craft [...]

Location: SE 21st and Division in front of the Mirador Community Store
Description:
Falafel. It sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? A popular Middle-Eastern specialty of chickpeas and/or fava beans and spices fried or baked up into balls or patties, most often served with yogurt or a tahini-based sauce.  However, its nuanced flavors and the variety of shapes, [...]

Location: SE 12th and Hawthorne at Cartopia
Description:
Friday night on the town. Happy hour at a fancy restaurant in the Pearl with cocktails made from fancy gin and vodka. Where does one go for dinner after such an event? Cartopia! Yes, indeed. We cruised down to SE 12th and Hawthorne to get some food and specifically, [...]

Location: SE 48th and Woodstock (parking lot of The Joinery)
Description:
El Gallo Taqueria is the latest taco and burrito cart to come to the sprawling neighborhood of SE Portland. Located down off SE 48th and Woodstock in the Woodstock neighborhood, Jake Brown, the owner, is offering up rustic Mexican cuisine while sourcing his ingredients locally.

I am [...]

Location: 8438 SE Woodstock
Description:
Located just east of busy 82nd Avenue in the Lents neighborhood, El Nutri is a perennial SE neighborhood favorite for both authentic and more American-Mexican fusion taco truck fare; the convenient hours for lunch, dinner until 10PM and Saturdays; and very decent prices. The recent addition of a large, comfortable deck and [...]

Location: SE 82nd at Holgate and SE Division around 123rd
Description:
I grew up in rural SE Portland out by Powell Butte, so venture in that direction every so often to visit family. When I do, I try to take a circuitous route traveling down those streets I haven’t been down since I was a child. Earlier [...]