Food Carts Portland

Location: SW 2nd and Oak Hours: M-F, 8am-4pm The Story: Do you sometimes have a craving for a good wholesome breakfast or a traditional BLT lunch with fries? Well, now you can get that at your local food cart. The Lovin’ Spoonfull opened earlier this summer and will serve up traditional American fare with a [...]

Lisa and Brian Wood own and operate Big-Ass Sandwiches off SW 3rd and Ash. Lisa graciously wrote the following as a guide to aspiring food cart owners. Thank you Lisa. So you want to open a food cart. In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a food cart bonanza happening.  High unemployment rates, difficulty finding work [...]

Location: SW 3rd and Ash The Story: If you were walking down the street and saw a guy in a hot dog suit dancing in the sidewalk, what would you do? What would you do? Well, we stopped for a tasty dog. Newcomers to the Ash St Pod are David and Jason who opened Big [...]

I’m doing an interview with Multnomah County later this week and would love to know what questions you all might have for them. I’ll then post the answers to your questions later next week. Just leave your questions in the comments below… Multnomah County is one of the lead agencies in charge of approving, permitting [...]

Some items from the foodcart-o-sphere: Food Carts Portland would like to wish BrunchBox a Happy 1st Birthday. Yes indeed. One year ago today, BrunchBox landed giving Portland a new option for lunchtime burger madness. Head on down to BrunchBox today or this week and congratulate them on their success. BrunchBox is at SW 5th and [...]

If you are a street cart vendor, interested in becoming one, or even a person that advocates or works on food cart related issues, there’s a nifty national conference coming up in Los Angeles, May 14-15, 2010 at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). According to the Conference Materials, In recent years, street vendors [...]

Here is a new food cart spin-off industry and business in Portland. It is pretty cool that Portland’s food carts have grown to a point to warrant a whole new business model – custom built food carts.  Have you ever dreamed of opening your own food cart? Are you in the market for a new [...]

In most cases it’s against the law to bring your own reusable food containers to food carts. Read on… Many of you have asked why Food Carts Portland doesn’t encourage people to bring their own reusable containers to food carts, and why we never mention the idea of cart discounts for customers who bring their [...]

***Recommended*** Location: SW 3rd and Ash St. The Story: I think the name tells the story. Big-Ass Sandwiches is now open and they sell giant sandwiches and a bit more. A cart that has been a few months in the making, Big-Ass Sandwiches is the brainchild of Lisa and Brian Wood who have brought us [...]

It’s simple: You connect with me and I connect with you and I share my friends and you share your friends and we go back and forth connecting forever and ever. Yes, I’ve finally taken the Food Carts Portland Twitter plunge. You can follow me: @pdxfoodcarts I’ll be adding a sidebar Twitter widget soon on [...]