Portland’s food cart pods: Explore the city’s best street eats in every neighborhood
Published 2:50 pm Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Corban Attaway eats his last bite of asada tacos he purchased from Tierra de Sol food cart at Portland Mercado. It had been a while since he last ate at the food cart and didn’t realize Portland Mercado had been closed since the fire on Jan. 3.
The Portland area has hundreds of food carts, and “Portland is known for our unique system of organizing food carts into ‘pods’ — permanent collections of carts, often with seating and other amenities, allowing diners to explore a variety of offerings in a single location,” Travel Oregon states. To explore every food cart pod in Portland, see the Travel Oregon website (travelportland.com/food-cart-finder/food-cart-pods) and Travel Oregon’s Food Cart Finder (travelportland.com/food-cart-finder).
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Borrowing from Travel Oregon’s list, here are some food cart pods around Portland:
Downtown — Pioneer Courthouse Square; Portland State University; The Cart Blocks (former Alder Street pod); Third Avenue Food Cart Pod; Midtown Beer Garden.
Southwest — Multnomah French Quarter, 3518 S.W. Multnomah Blvd.
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Southeast — Cartopia, 1207 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.; Springwater Cart Park, 8225 S.E. 82nd Ave.; Lil’ America, 1015 S.E. Stark St.; Flipside, 9320 S.E. Woodstock Blvd.; Hawthorne Asylum, S.E. 10th Ave./1080 S.E. Madison St.; Piknik Park, 1122 S.E. Tacoma St.; The Original at John’s Marketplace, 3560 S.E. Powell Blvd.; Hinterland Bar and Food Carts, 2216 S.E. 50th Ave.
North/Northeast — Cartside, 1825 N. Williams Ave.; Prost Marketplace, 4233 N. Mississippi Ave.; St. Johns Food and Beer Porch, 7316 N. Lombard St.; Rose City, 5235 N.E. Sandy Blvd.; Barley, 6035 N.E. Halsey St.; Piedmont Station, 625 N.E. Killingsworth St.; Park the Cats, 7339 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.; The Yard at Montavilla, 8220 N.E. Davis St.
Northwest — Slabtown, 2299 N.W. 23rd Ave.; Nob Hill, 1845 N.W. 23rd Place.