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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Food & Drink
Over 3,000 hungry Portlanders flocked to OMSI's north parking lot Saturday to sample the wares of 51 Portland food carts—some ten percent of all the carts in the city—at WW's fifth Eat Mobile festival. Of course, Eat Mobile isn't just about eating—it's also about awarding awesome handmade trophies to the best carts. Here's who won this year:The people's choice was perennial favorite Koi Fusi...
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Food Cart Reviews
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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Food Cart Reviews
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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Food Cart Reviews
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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Food & Drink
WW's Eat Mobile festival is going down at OMSI on April 28. Fifty carts, beer, wine, music, science demos—it will be amazing. We're giving away free tickets this week. Alls you have to do is send us a photo of your Friday (or Saturday, or Sunday) food cart lunch (or dinner, or breakfast). Make it funny, make it gross, make it dirty—just make it interesting. Our two favorite snaps wi...
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Food Cart Reviews
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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Eat Mobile
With more than 400 food carts selling their tasty goods within our city limits, Portland has become an international destination for mobile eats. U.S. News Travel recently declared Portland to have the "world's best street food."On
April 28, Eat Mobile, the part food festival, part cart competition,
will allow attendees to sample from nearly 50 of Willamette Week's
favorite food carts as vendors compete for the coveted Carty Award.
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What Austin food trucks have that Portland food carts don’t.
Food Cart Reviews
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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