Willamette Week

Miss Your Chance to Try KFC’s Cheeto Sandwich? Here Are Five Other Ways to Get Your Flamin’ Hot Fix in Portland

Here are five Cheetos-infused items we found around town, ranked from disappointing to straight flames.

Rose City Food Park

Rose City is one of the few destination pods left from Portland’s food cart glory days.

Killingsworth Station Food Cart Pod

As this newer pod finds its groove, things are only getting better.

From vegetarian-friendly whole grain meals at Veggie Bowl (formerly Richi’s) to Alecocina’s fried empanadas ($3), this cart-filled corner of the inner westside is worth navigating throngs of students and city of Portland staff from across the street.

BG Food Cartel

An easy walk from City Hall and the Beaverton Central MAX Stop, BG Food Cartel sprang up in the Round after restrictive limits on suburban food carts were lifted—finally—four years ago.

Know Thy Food

A food-buying club turned cafe and market, Know Thy Food is organic, sustainable and affordable.

Triple Crown Food Market

An oasis in a former food desert, Triple Crown Food Market is an unassuming, family-owned corner grocery that, like neighboring Po’Shines, thrives while tracing back to Kenton’s pre-gentrified history among Portland’s historic black neighborhoods.

Ticket to the World

Housing costs, multiple Intel campuses and Nike HQ have resulted in the most ethnically diverse neighborhood west of 82nd Avenue.

People’s Food Co-Op

Any child of hippies will feel right at home and downright nostalgic in this earthy, worker-owned co-op.

Portland-Based “Simpsons” Writer and Fast Food Critic Bill Oakley Finally Has a Sandwich Named After Him—and Yes, It Involves Steamed Hams

Decades after “steamed hams” entered the lexicon, Oakley moved from Los Angeles to Portland and started reviewing fast food on his Instagram page. And now, everything is finally coming full circle, as a local food truck is now serving a sandwich named after him

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