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: SW 3rd and Stark Hours: M-F 7am-5pm The Story: If visiting a cart where the individual serving you was wearing a kilt and had a strong brogue accent, wouldn’t you think it is pretty darn authentic? That was how we discovered a brand new cart – Celtic Foods. Donavon and Mike are the two [...]

Location: SW 9th and Alder Hours: M-F 11am-2pm The Story: In Portland’s ever changing cart scene, we have yet a new member – Chili Inside/Chili Outside, a cart specializing in Texas brand homemade chili. Chili is like BBQ, there are as many ways to prep it as there are colors of a Benetton ad. I [...]

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: 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: SW Stark, between 2nd and 3rd Ave Hours: Mon-Fri, 7am-2:30pm The Story: I chuckled the first time I heard this cart’s name. Happy Grillmore. What a great play on words. When I visited, I learned that Grilly Madison had been an early front runner. Granted, a cart isn’t just the name, but have a [...]

Location: SW 4th and Hall Hours: Weekdays, 11am-2:30pm The Story: Simplicity may be the root of success. Pick an item you like to cook, source the right ingredients and prepare it well and you too can make it in the food cart world. Pastrami on Rye does that with their namesake sandwich. The cart is [...]

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: 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 [...]