Feed Me Portland!

If the list of restaurants you'd like to try is as long as your arm but your wallet is looking

Picture courtesy FoodCartsPortland.com I’ve been waiting for push-back against food carts, and it sounds like a groundswell is building. From th

Posted under total speculation: KGW News reports a 26-year-old man was arrested for torching a bento food cart as SW 5th and Stark St. “Investigators arrested Kevin Daniel Mackin for burglary and arson near th

Deschutes Brewery Street Fare 08/12/10 Deschutes Brewery Portland Pub 210 NW 11th Ave Portland 503-296-4906 5-9pm $5 More tix are $4 Benefits Morrison Child & Family Services Featuring Portland’s Finest Food Carts, Deschutes will close down the stree

From NPR’s KPLU Radio, It might be easier to grab a bite on t

For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the Krakow Cafe was in the new(ish) Overlook condominium building along the section of Interstate in what used to be called the Polish neighborhood. The reason for closing is “the economy”. I liked the Krakow for it’s eccentricities, but as a fr

The Third Annual Try Vegan Week PDX is coming up in two weeks! What better way to observe it than engaging with the varied, vegan-friendly and much-lauded Portland food cart scene? Consider it a challenge--can you not only try vegan for a week, but try a week's worth of novel food

With all the hoopla over locavores, 100-mile diets and plowing up lawns to make gardens, you'd th

Beer Northwest's third annual summer issue features picks for the Northwest's best patios.

Hopefully this fair-weather, intermittent blogging will become more regular again, now that my spring classes have come to an end. Plus, after one of the rainiest June’s yet, it’s finally sunny in Oregon, so I have no excuse not to write about the bounty finally revealing itself in our gardens and farms. Now we

More news from the Vancouver Sun.  In addition to the previously mentioned food cart article, they also ran an online story called “Recipes from Portland’s top chefs”. There must have been some arm-twisting behind the scenes, as the included recipes are for dishes that have received high praise

More and more cities are looking to emulate Portland’s bustling food cart economy. Vancouver BC city officials are launching a pilot project next month, with many saying Portland is the “model to emulate”. In a June 12th article titled “A taste for global cuisine”, many carts were hig

On Sunday, June 6 Try Vegan is hosting an event in Portland called Vegan Iron Chef. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. Tickets are all sold out, but there will be live-streaming!The chefs:Aaron Adams from Portobello Tra

I’ve gotten more emails about a recent

Over the past five months we have consumed approximately eighteen burgers. Between the two of us, that

For one, I am back in Portland, albeit only for a few weeks. In the process of re-immersing myself in the vegan food culture (that is, acquainting myself with all these new food cart options), I have good news in that I have discovered a new vegan reuben to review, one which sounds quite unique and exciting. Just when I th

I've been ignoring this blog a bit, somewhat due to that I now have another blog. I had been discussing with a friend that I frequent coffee shops with about how I was thinking of starting a fashion blog. So many times I'm looking online at online shopping

Mobile Eats Minimalism: Girl, Box, Cookies While it is rapidly becoming fashionable to question whether food carts (

Broccolini with Crispy Poached Egg from Metrovino

[Note: This is a mix of April Fools stories and real news. The real stories are at the top of the page, phony stories have their titles crossed out] IS YOUR SUSHI SUSTAINABLE?

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Pizza in the oven at Depokos Food carts

Part 2. N through Z. Part 1 is here. New Cascadia Traditional

Monday I will post the “Best Restaurant in Portland”, along with the winner of the drawing. But first…

Whiffie’s cart Brief Review Overall Service Food Quality Atmosphere Vegan Options 9.25 10 9 9 9 Location: SE 12th and Hawthorne Hours: Tues-Thurs 6pm-12am, Weekends 8pm-3am or until the pies run out Times Visited: Countless ~ The story. There was a time before the Whiffies fried pie cart opened, and the

I have a ton of stuff that I’ve Twittered/Facebooked about over the past month, but haven’t felt well enough to sit down and write a post. There is so much news here you may need to take a nap to get through it. Let’s see how far I can get. I promise to quit

It's fun to learn about a new vegan-friendly joint and be able to hop to reviewing it in a timely m

I’ve read interweb notices over the past few years that have sung the praises of the Schnitzelwich. Posts by Portland’s own recipe blogger extraordinaire

We feed my British grandmother every Sunday. She eats a lot for a 91 year old and if there's one thing I like about her it's that she can appreciate the taste of well-made food. She said a couple of weeks ago that she'd been craving fish and chips like she had when she was a child. I sort of took it as a challenge. Neve

mmmmmm......No, shit, this thing is delicious. This "thing" is the Vegan Steak & Cheese fr

When I was in New York City a few years ago I stumbled across this tiny Italian joint in Soho called

Brett over at FoodCartsPortland.com was featured in an interview about Portland food carts on MSNBC.com. An accompanying video features Karen Brooks, Oregonian food editor. Nice job! Here is the first

It’s true, as often happens, I get deluged with new tips every time I post a roundup. Here we go: YamYam’s restaurant in N Portland was being used as a front to launder money from a Crips gang cocaine deals. As someone said on Twitter, no wonder there

Chef Naoko Brief Review Overall Service Food Quality Atmosphere Vegan Options 7.25 9 8 6 6 Location: 1237 SW Jefferson St Portland, OR 97201 Hours: Tues-Sat 11:30am-3pm Times Visited: 4 ~ Trying to break my wonderful food cart habit, I headed to Taste of Jakarta for a second visit one day. They were temporar

The newest vegan cart in town.Time to dust off the ole Vegan Friendly Food Carts in Portland list! Oh wait, it doesn't collect

GARDEN STATE CARTThis food cart insanity we live in here in Portland has got to stop. People doing

Yup, another favorites...You like these, right? I thought so!  1. Sweetpea Baking Co- Their doughnuts on Saturdays, danishes on Wednesdays, and Kettleman's bagels with their Tofutti schmears (Bacun Scallion! Chipotle! Veggie! Strawberry! Black Olive!)! It's not always the most

Yo! I've moved to a new domain:getsconedpdx.comIt has pages of information, in addition to normal posts! Oh my gosh!Please update your bookmarks.jess scon

I’ve meant to blog about Gourmet magazine’s fate but can’t seem to manage posting more than once a week these days. Folks have a special fondness for it here in this food-loving state. And Gourmet loved Oregon back: see this recent feature on Portland Food Carts. But I came late to the Gourmet table. I di

As I mentioned in my previous post, October is Vegan Month of Food. For this first post I'm going to do what a lot of people (including Miss Whoa Wren where I saw it) are doing: questionnaire!! I love filling these suckers out and I may have filled this out for last year's MoFo, b

Some quick thoughts/observations from eating around town.....After a recent lunch at

THE DECKHow did I not know about The Deck? Not that thing out

sigh… already updated – several times – below From Leslie Cole’s twitter @lesliecole1 via @grantbutler, Season 4 of Chefs A’ Field (PBS) to feature Vitaly Paley of Paley’s Place, Phillipe Boulot of The Heathman & Mac Club, and two Oregon farms. More info on the show

[Note: this was originally titled "coffeehouse roundup". It should have been "best of the best Portland coffee". My mistake. FD] By Sonia of Portland Coffeehouse Journal Portland has so much going for it food wise, that it becomes hard t

Last week, I promised my friend Lucas, the highly regarded Food Cart photographer, that I'd pick up some sacre

UPDATE: CLOSED. Portland’s Inaugural Vegan Iron Chef Winner, and her family, have left Portland. The cart has been sold. Hopefully, they shall return in the near future and open up another cart or restaurant! We wish them the best. Asaase …

Who knew when my brother opened his wine shop in S

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The Po' HouseI wasn't quite sure what to make of The Po' House (@thepohouse on