Ala Carts Food Pavillion

Location: SE 50th and Divison Number of carts: 14 Covered: Yes Pros: Lots of entertainment options, wet naps, free wifi, good food choices. Cons: Beer is only on weekends, really close to Los Gorditos. Types of food (check their site for current carts): Turkish, burgers, coffee, seafood, Pork, Venezuelan, chicken and waffles, Pizza, Southwestern, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai http://www.alacartspdx.com/ Ala Cart is much more than just a cart pod. It's like a cart experience filled with fun for the whole family. What does that even mean? Well, I'll tell you. In addition to some 14 food carts, there's also a little playground for kids, cornhole for big kids, sidewalk chalk for…
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Carts on Foster

Location: Corner of SE 52nd and Foster Number of carts: 11 Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 3 https://www.facebook.com/CartsOnFoster The parking lot that houses Carts on Foster has come along way since it was All Pets Playhouse - a decrepit-looking animal boarding house that I never saw open. Now it's a bustling cart pod, with a lot more carts than the one other time I awkwardly walked through and then decided to go somewhere else a few months ago. Pretty flowersss! I use the term bustling loosely, it's not that crowded which is a good thing if you hate waiting in line for food like I do. (That's one issue with food…
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Cartlandia

Location: 82nd Ave at Spring Water Corridor Number of Carts: A lot Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 1 http://www.cartlandia.com/ Despite it's adorable kitschy name, Cartlandia is about the least "Portlandlandia" place in Portland. Yes, it claims "bike-centric" and is on the Springwater Corridor -- a Portland-y bike path lined with wild blackberries-- but the PDX stereotypes end there. There are tons of carts, but this must be the cheapest place to rent space in Portland, because is seems it's mostly people who probably shouldn't own restaurants and are just "trying it out." Some I've tried are fine, but certainly not food you'd drool over and want to seek out again. My…
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The RE-BRANDING: This blog is about Food Carts Now!

So you may have guessed I got bored with trying to eat lunch on Hawthorne every day. It was expensive, we ran out of restaurants we weren't specifically avoiding, and oh yeah, I moved my office to felony flats. Well, technically we've rebranded it the "Flavel Arts District" hoping it'll catch on like Alberta did, but apparently white trash people are harder to gentrify. Anyway! I was just in a heated debate with Stan about our two nearest Food Cart pod locations (actually it wasn't heated at all, we agreed) and realized, I could start food blogging again, but about cart pods. I'm way better at keeping these things going…
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Ala Carts Food Pavillion

Location: SE 50th and Divison Number of carts: 14 Covered: Yes Pros: Lots of entertainment options, wet naps, free wifi, good food choices. Cons: Beer is only on weekends, really close to Los Gorditos. Types of food (check their site for current carts): Turkish, burgers, coffee, seafood, Pork, Venezuelan, chicken and waffles, Pizza, Southwestern, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai http://www.alacartspdx.com/ Ala Cart is much more than just a cart pod. It's like a cart experience filled with fun for the whole family. What does that even mean? Well, I'll tell you. In addition to some 14 food carts, there's also a little playground for kids, cornhole for big kids, sidewalk chalk for…
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Carts on Foster

Location: Corner of SE 52nd and Foster Number of carts: 11 Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 3 https://www.facebook.com/CartsOnFoster The parking lot that houses Carts on Foster has come along way since it was All Pets Playhouse - a decrepit-looking animal boarding house that I never saw open. Now it's a bustling cart pod, with a lot more carts than the one other time I awkwardly walked through and then decided to go somewhere else a few months ago. Pretty flowersss! I use the term bustling loosely, it's not that crowded which is a good thing if you hate waiting in line for food like I do. (That's one issue with food…
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Cartlandia

Location: 82nd Ave at Spring Water Corridor Number of Carts: A lot Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 1 http://www.cartlandia.com/ Despite it's adorable kitschy name, Cartlandia is about the least "Portlandlandia" place in Portland. Yes, it claims "bike-centric" and is on the Springwater Corridor -- a Portland-y bike path lined with wild blackberries-- but the PDX stereotypes end there. There are tons of carts, but this must be the cheapest place to rent space in Portland, because is seems it's mostly people who probably shouldn't own restaurants and are just "trying it out." Some I've tried are fine, but certainly not food you'd drool over and want to seek out again. My…
Read More

The RE-BRANDING: This blog is about Food Carts Now!

So you may have guessed I got bored with trying to eat lunch on Hawthorne every day. It was expensive, we ran out of restaurants we weren't specifically avoiding, and oh yeah, I moved my office to felony flats. Well, technically we've rebranded it the "Flavel Arts District" hoping it'll catch on like Alberta did, but apparently white trash people are harder to gentrify. Anyway! I was just in a heated debate with Stan about our two nearest Food Cart pod locations (actually it wasn't heated at all, we agreed) and realized, I could start food blogging again, but about cart pods. I'm way better at keeping these things going…
Read More

Ala Carts Food Pavillion

Location: SE 50th and Divison Number of carts: 14 Covered: Yes Pros: Lots of entertainment options, wet naps, free wifi, good food choices. Cons: Beer is only on weekends, really close to Los Gorditos. Types of food (check their site for current carts): Turkish, burgers, coffee, seafood, Pork, Venezuelan, chicken and waffles, Pizza, Southwestern, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai http://www.alacartspdx.com/ Ala Cart is much more than just a cart pod. It's like a cart experience filled with fun for the whole family. What does that even mean? Well, I'll tell you. In addition to some 14 food carts, there's also a little playground for kids, cornhole for big kids, sidewalk chalk for…
Read More

Carts on Foster

Location: Corner of SE 52nd and Foster Number of carts: 11 Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 3 https://www.facebook.com/CartsOnFoster The parking lot that houses Carts on Foster has come along way since it was All Pets Playhouse - a decrepit-looking animal boarding house that I never saw open. Now it's a bustling cart pod, with a lot more carts than the one other time I awkwardly walked through and then decided to go somewhere else a few months ago. Pretty flowersss! I use the term bustling loosely, it's not that crowded which is a good thing if you hate waiting in line for food like I do. (That's one issue with food…
Read More

Cartlandia

Location: 82nd Ave at Spring Water Corridor Number of Carts: A lot Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 1 http://www.cartlandia.com/ Despite it's adorable kitschy name, Cartlandia is about the least "Portlandlandia" place in Portland. Yes, it claims "bike-centric" and is on the Springwater Corridor -- a Portland-y bike path lined with wild blackberries-- but the PDX stereotypes end there. There are tons of carts, but this must be the cheapest place to rent space in Portland, because is seems it's mostly people who probably shouldn't own restaurants and are just "trying it out." Some I've tried are fine, but certainly not food you'd drool over and want to seek out again. My…
Read More

The RE-BRANDING: This blog is about Food Carts Now!

So you may have guessed I got bored with trying to eat lunch on Hawthorne every day. It was expensive, we ran out of restaurants we weren't specifically avoiding, and oh yeah, I moved my office to felony flats. Well, technically we've rebranded it the "Flavel Arts District" hoping it'll catch on like Alberta did, but apparently white trash people are harder to gentrify. Anyway! I was just in a heated debate with Stan about our two nearest Food Cart pod locations (actually it wasn't heated at all, we agreed) and realized, I could start food blogging again, but about cart pods. I'm way better at keeping these things going…
Read More

Ala Carts Food Pavillion

Location: SE 50th and Divison Number of carts: 14 Covered: Yes Pros: Lots of entertainment options, wet naps, free wifi, good food choices. Cons: Beer is only on weekends, really close to Los Gorditos. Types of food (check their site for current carts): Turkish, burgers, coffee, seafood, Pork, Venezuelan, chicken and waffles, Pizza, Southwestern, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai http://www.alacartspdx.com/ Ala Cart is much more than just a cart pod. It's like a cart experience filled with fun for the whole family. What does that even mean? Well, I'll tell you. In addition to some 14 food carts, there's also a little playground for kids, cornhole for big kids, sidewalk chalk for…
Read More

Carts on Foster

Location: Corner of SE 52nd and Foster Number of carts: 11 Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 3 https://www.facebook.com/CartsOnFoster The parking lot that houses Carts on Foster has come along way since it was All Pets Playhouse - a decrepit-looking animal boarding house that I never saw open. Now it's a bustling cart pod, with a lot more carts than the one other time I awkwardly walked through and then decided to go somewhere else a few months ago. Pretty flowersss! I use the term bustling loosely, it's not that crowded which is a good thing if you hate waiting in line for food like I do. (That's one issue with food…
Read More

Cartlandia

Location: 82nd Ave at Spring Water Corridor Number of Carts: A lot Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 1 http://www.cartlandia.com/ Despite it's adorable kitschy name, Cartlandia is about the least "Portlandlandia" place in Portland. Yes, it claims "bike-centric" and is on the Springwater Corridor -- a Portland-y bike path lined with wild blackberries-- but the PDX stereotypes end there. There are tons of carts, but this must be the cheapest place to rent space in Portland, because is seems it's mostly people who probably shouldn't own restaurants and are just "trying it out." Some I've tried are fine, but certainly not food you'd drool over and want to seek out again. My…
Read More

The RE-BRANDING: This blog is about Food Carts Now!

So you may have guessed I got bored with trying to eat lunch on Hawthorne every day. It was expensive, we ran out of restaurants we weren't specifically avoiding, and oh yeah, I moved my office to felony flats. Well, technically we've rebranded it the "Flavel Arts District" hoping it'll catch on like Alberta did, but apparently white trash people are harder to gentrify. Anyway! I was just in a heated debate with Stan about our two nearest Food Cart pod locations (actually it wasn't heated at all, we agreed) and realized, I could start food blogging again, but about cart pods. I'm way better at keeping these things going…
Read More