Food Cart Reviews
Which comes first, the pun or the menu?
“We knew we wanted to do breakfast,” says the guy inside the
bright-yellow Fried Egg I’m in Love cart on Hawthorne. “We thought about
something NP
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Believe it or not, some people still saunter up to food
carts with Spanish names expecting tacos. Take it from Angel Villalvir,
owner and chef of Angel’s Cabana. “Everyone expects to see tacos
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It took three attempts finally to sample the wares of this
anonymous white truck parked across the street from the entrance to the
Montgomery Park complex. Twice we trekked the mile from our offic
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Clam chowder generates strong opinions. Adding tomatoes to
clam chowder in place of cream (making it “Manhattan-style”) was at one
point so contentious that, in 1939, the Maine state Legislatu
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The best bird at Run Chicken Run is painted, not plated.
Does any Portland food cart have better art than the man-sized rooster
scurrying across this trailer’s wall? A vibration of bright colors
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Who has two thumbs, bad-ass heavy-metal
beards and huge piles of smoked meat? These Guys Brooklyn. The titular
guys are hirsute co-owners David Enfield and Ben Hildreth, who serve
smoked pork an
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What Austin food trucks have that Portland food carts don’t.
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The Austin food-cart scene is not all steak, tacos and
steak tacos. In fact, on my visit to what’s often considered the
nation’s No. 2 food-cart town (Portland is tops, natch), I even found a
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What do Poles eat during the summer? The
Polish fare familiar stateside is heavily skewed toward cured meats and
root vegetables—foods that are hard to imagine enjoying on Baltic
beaches. I ca
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There’s a great cup of coffee in Portland
that costs only 75 cents. It’s light, sweet and has an earthy flavor
that makes it the perfect accompaniment for an afternoon meal of meat
and peanu
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Is a coffee kiosk staffed entirely by hot chicks in
bikinis a tasteless and degrading enterprise or an empowering and
titillating local business befitting this sex-positive city? Is it a way
for
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