News Why hasn't anybody done this before? Local electro-schlock duo the Punk Group has recorded a short jingle in honor of downtown food cart gut buster Big-Ass Sandwiches. We've got an email out to cart co-owner Lisa Wood to figure out whether they paid the musicians in roast beef. The ditty is appropriately short and to the point, with one major lyric: "Dude, I am totally wasted! (ME TOO!) Let's ...   More

News Just when we were getting used to our new cart pod crush on Refuel Station North, word comes that another big food cart pod is about to open. This time it's Dreamer's Marketplace in an old bank parking lot on the west side of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard between Northeast Knott and Graham Streets. The outdoor marketplace, which will also host arts and craft vendors and live music, holds its grand ...   More

News There's another player Portland's increasingly crowded field of purpose-built food cart parking lots. First there was Mississippi Marketplace, then Refuel Station North, then Dreamer's Marketplace and now Crystal Food Garden, a new venture on North Lombard Street in St. Johns. Where's that? Right between the Crystal Temple and Big Kahuna's BBQ. Crystal Food Garden began recruiting in April and, ...   More

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News You see that? That's corporate America taking a thing you love, shoving it into the ravenous jaws of the marketing beast and spitting out something you feel dirty for being associated with (we have strong feelings about food carts here at WW). The Taco Bell Truck, spotted Thursday on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, has been driving around since last summer, handing out free tacos to the desperate ...   More

News What did local restaurateur Nick Zukin do after eating 72 burgers in three months? Dessert, of course. The food blogger and co-owner of downtown deli Kenny and Zuke's downed 10 deep-fried hand pies in 30 minutes on Sunday to be crowned the new "Pie Champ" of the Whiffie's Fried Pies cart in Hawthorne. "I'd been calling the previous record of nine bullshit for ages," Zukin shrugs. So when his two ...   More

News The Food Network is starting a new reality show on August 15 called The Great Food Truck Race, in which food carts battle it out for America's hearts, minds and stomachs and the chance to win $50,000. Not a single Portland vendor is included in the line-up of competing trucks (Outrageous! Six out of the seven are from California!) But the network is also running an online competition to find ...   More

News WW Presents another installment of our Australian music intern's diary of moving to Portland. Compiling this year's Best of Portland poll was a fascinating task for me. Newspapers and magazine articles about Portland always seem to focus on things like beer and bikes, but most locals seemed to have very different opinions about what makes their city great, and coming from such a very different perspective, ...   More

News The final event of PDX Bridge Fest, Brunch on the Bridge, transformed the Hawthorne Bridge into a picnic area-slash-food cart pod for one morning on Saturday, Aug. 7. The event, which featured a strip of grass that covered the middle lanes of the bridge, was meant to raise awareness of hunger. While there were donation bins placed at the entrance to the bridge, the $40 ticket price only covered ...   More