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Food Carts In Portland, Oregon
The city of Portland, Oregon, United States, has experienced a boom in the number of food carts due to relatively low regulation compared to other North American cities. History In 1965, the first food cart in Portland, which sold kosher hot dogs, was set up across from Portland City Hall. In 1976, Portland opened up all of its downtown parks to competitive bidding. A 2001 report in ''The Oregonian'' stated Portland was home to 175 carts, with fierce competition for the four cart spaces available since 1987 in the South Park Blocks. A bidding war in February 2001 led to a combined price of $192,000 for the spaces. There was also a large cluster, often referred to as a food cart pod, at Fifth and Stark street, and one food cart had been operating since 1980. In 2010 it was estimated that there are between 450 and 671 carts citywide. Regulation Most North American cities sought to make the street for cars in the mid twentieth century, and thus imposed strict regulations on food c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Prost Marketplace
Prost Marketplace is a food cart pod in Portland, Oregon. Description and history Prost Marketplace is a food cart pod in the north Portland part of the Boise neighborhood. Businesses have included Bloodbuzz, Breadbox, Burger Stevens, Caspian Kabob, Desi PDX, Fried Egg I'm in Love, Little Conejo, Matt's BBQ, Nico's Ice Cream, and Pastrami Zombie. The pod's patio was expanded and all-weather covering was added in 2019. Outdoor seating was covered and heated, as of 2021. Reception Michael Russell of ''The Oregonian'' has called Prost Marketplace the city's best food cart pod. In 2021, Matthew Singer of ''Willamette Week'' called Prost Marketplace "the superteam of Portland food cart pods". The pod was included in ''Eater Portland'''s 2022 "Handy Dining Guide to North Mississippi Avenue". References External links * Prost! Marketplaceat ''Condé Nast Traveler ''Condé Nast Traveler'' is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published by Condé Nast. The magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica's Soul Food
Erica's Soul Food is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon. Description Erica's Soul Food is a Black-owned restaurant serving Southern cuisine and soul food. The menu includes catfish, Atlanta-style chicken wings, meatloaf, and salmon croquettes with sweet onion. Wings have various sauces such as jerk, maple barbecue, and peach sriracha, and are served with blue cheese or ranch dressing. Sides include black-eyed peas, cabbage, collard greens, cornbread, French fries, macaroni and cheese, boiled peanuts, sautéed squash, and tater tots. The restaurant also serves pound cake with White Lily flour. Erica's served pumpkin spice wings in 2021. History Erica's Soul Food was founded by chef Erica Montgomery, who began operating the business from a food cart in southeast Portland in January 2020. In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she made vaccine appointments for patrons who were interested in receiving one. The cart closed for the August 2021 heat wave. Reception In 2021, Jord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Gallo Taqueria
El Gallo Taqueria was a Mexican restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. Owner and chef Jake Brown established the business as a food cart in 2009, in southeast Portland's Woodstock neighborhood. In 2015, El Gallo relocated and began operating as a brick and mortar restaurant in 2015. The business closed in 2022. Description El Gallo Taqueria was a Mexican restaurant in southeast Portland's Woodstock neighborhood. ''The Oregonian'' Ben Waterhouse described the restaurant as "tiny but charming, finished in weathered boards with tabletops milled from wind-fallen maple trees salvaged from the canyon" at nearby Reed College. He wrote, "You won't get a very good view of the woodwork, though, because all the space not devoted to the kitchen, where three men in black t-shirts, aprons and baseball caps busily crank out tacos and burritos, is packed elbow-to-elbow with people eating or waiting to eat. If you linger, you can bet another customer is wishing death and dismemberment upo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-san Thai Cuisine
E-san Thai Cuisine is a Thai restaurant with multiple locations in the Portland metropolitan area, in the United States. History and locations There was a stationary food cart in Vancouver, Washington, as of 2015. The Vancouver had 36 food options with beef, chicken, pork, or tofu. The menu included Pad See Ew, Gang Garee, and Pad Kee Mao. The food pod in Happy Valley, Oregon was slated to have an E-san cart, as of 2015. There was also a food cart at the Tidbit Food Farm and Garden food pod at the intersection of Southeast 28th Avenue and Division Street. The pod opened in 2014 closed in 2017. BG's Food Cartel at The Round, a food pod in Beaverton, Oregon, had two E-San carts, as of 2018. The restaurant in downtown Portland's Haseltine Building closed in January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The restaurant's January 9 announcement read, "We want to thank our past crew members and especially our loyal customers for supporting E-San in our 22 years of being open. We are dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty Lettuce
Dirty Lettuce is a Black-owned vegan restaurant serving Southern, Cajun, and Creole cuisine in Portland, Oregon. Alkebulan Moroski began operating as a food cart in 2020 and opened a brick and mortar restaurant in 2021. Description Dirty Lettuce serves vegan Southern, Cajun, and Creole cuisine, including plant-based "meats" such as seitan barbecue ribs and Ota tofu fried "chicken". Sides include fried okra, jambalaya, macaroni and cheese, sour cream and onion mashed potatoes, Southern-style leaf vegetables, a Nachitoches meat pie, bowls similar to KFC's Famous Bowl, shrimp-and-grit fritters, candied yams, and corn muffins. History With assistance from his mother Kim, Alkebulan Moroski began operating Dirty Lettuce as a food cart in northeast Portland's Shady Pines pod (5240 Northeast 42nd Avenue) in early 2020. He opened a brick and mortar restaurant on Northeast Fremont in the Cully neighborhood (at the Rose City Park border) in May 2021, and planned to continue operating the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desi PDX
Desi PDX, or DesiPDX, is an Indian restaurant in Portland, Oregon. Description Desi PDX serves Indian cuisine from a food cart in a pod called Prost Marketplace, in the north Portland part of the Eliot neighborhood. Fodor's and Michael Russell of ''The Oregonian'' have described the menu as "Indian fusion". The ''Portland Mercury'' Ned Lannamann called Desi PDX an "Indian-themed food cart" with "Indian dishes done Northwest style—or Northwest dishes done Indian style, depending on your viewpoint". He also wrote, "Virtually everything is gluten-free (and dairy-free, except for the creamy, cooling raita that comes on the side), and there are vegan options aplenty on their terrific menu of complex, intricately spiced fare." The cart has dark wood siding and strokes of green and orange paint. According to Waz Wu of ''Eater Portland'', the business offers "Indian flair with local produce to create a lively gluten-free menu of small bites, salads, and curries. The vegetables change, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadstock Coffee
Deadstock Coffee is a Black-owned coffee company based in Portland, Oregon. The business operates a coffee shop in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood and sells beans online. Description Deadstock bills itself as "snob-free" and uses the slogan "Coffee should be dope". Drinks include the Steph Curry (white chocolate mocha), the Lebronald Palmer (mixture of coffee, sweet tea, and lemonade), and the Luther Vandross (lavender mocha). Drinks can be topped with stenciled sneakers (Adidas, Jordans, Nikes, or Reebok). The chai lattes are made with One Stripe Chai. History The business began as a cart and has operated a sneaker-themed coffee shop in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood since August 2015. In 2020, the business saw a spike in business, and owner Ian Williams confirmed plans to open a location at Alberta Alley, a new development in northeast Portland. Reception In 2020, Williams was included in ''Portland Business Journal'' top 40 under 40 list. Nick Townsend included Dead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Cubo De Cuba
El Cubo de Cuba, or simply Cubo, is a Cuban restaurant in Portland, Oregon. Description Starting as a food cart and later becoming a brick and mortar operation in southeast Portland's Richmond neighborhood, the restaurant serves Cuban street food, including Cuban sandwiches, guava chicken, maduros, and mojo pork. The drink menu includes daiquiris, mojitos, and sangria. History The brick and mortar restaurant opened in 2013. See also * Hispanics and Latinos in Portland, Oregon References External links * * El Cubo de Cubaat Zomato Zomato () is an Indian multinational restaurant aggregator and food delivery company founded by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah in 2008. Zomato provides information, menus and user-reviews of restaurants as well as food delivery options fro ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Cubo de Cuba, El Cuban restaurants in the United States Cuban-American culture in Portland, Oregon Food carts in Portland, Oregon Latin American restaurants in Portland, Ore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicken And Guns
Chicken and Guns is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon. Description Chicken and Guns is a food cart at Cartopia, located in southeast Portland's Buckman neighborhood. The business specializes in grilled chicken with Latin spices. The "guns" are baked then fried potatoes, rubbed with lemon and oil and drizzled with aji sauce. History The restaurant group Title Bout partnered with Chicken and Guns in 2017, and planned to open five locations over five years. The restaurant used approximately 750 whole chickens per week, as of 2017. In 2017, Chicken and Guns was featured on the fifth season of the food reality television series ''Man v. Food''. In 2018, co-owner Dustin Knox was placed on leave after asking an African-American patron to leave for "loitering", leading to the restaurant being accused of racism and receiving numerous negative reviews. Reception Chicken and Guns was named a food cart of the year by ''Willamette Week'' in 2016. The business also ranked among Portland's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birrieria PDX
Birrieria PDX is a Mexican restaurant in Portland, Oregon. Description and history The original Birrieria PDX operates from a red food cart on Division Street in southeast Portland's Centennial neighborhood, serving Mexican cuisine such as birria (including birria tacos and "birriamen", or ramen with birria), quesabirria, rice, beans, shredded meat, horchata, and agua frescas. The Plaza Plate includes a quesadilla, taco, mulita, tostada, and cup of consommé. The family-owned restaurant opened in August 2020. Spouses Daniel Miranda and Lorena Brambila are co-owners with his sister Grecya Miranda her husband Ivan Uc. Since then, the business has expanded; there are four food carts in Portland, as of 2022. Reception In 2021, Zoe Baillargeon included the Birria Crunch Wrap in ''Eater Portland'' overview of "Where to Find the Cheesiest Dishes in Portland and Beyond", writing: Additionally, the website's Alex Frane described the crunch wrap as "sheer indulgence". He and Ron S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birrieria La Plaza
Birrieria La Plaza is a Mexican restaurant in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Initially operating from a food cart in southeast Portland, the business has announced plans to add a brick and mortar and a stall at Block 216. Description and history The Mexican restaurant Birrieria La Plaza (BLP) operates from a red food cart on Stark Street in southeast Portland, in the parking lot of a discount store. The menu focuses on birria and also includes braised beef and vampiros. The Plaza Plate includes a quesadilla, taco, mulita, tostada, and a cup of consommé. BLP is owned by Oracio Hernandez. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the restaurant experienced setbacks from beef supply chain issues. In May 2020, Rachel Pinsky of ''Eater Portland'' wrote, "At the height of its success a couple months ago, Hernandez’s food cart was going through a thousand pounds of chuck roast a week to make this popular stew. On May 4, the prices offered by his meat supplier for chuck increased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
