PDX Food Cart Tour

There are certain idiosyncrasies people associate with particular cities. Here in Portland it's biking, the great outdoors, craft beer, beards, flannel, music, rain, hipsters, kale, unfloridated water, bridges, the serious alternative underground scene that isn't so underground here, but there is also the great food options available here in PDX. More specifically, the plethora of food cart options all over the city; about 500 food carts to choose from and satisfy every palate.

http://www.foodcartsportland.com/ 

Saturday I was joined by three friends, who I convinced to tag along for my food cart tour.  We had such a great time, albeit cloudy, cool and sometimes raining. The first stop on the tour was Wolf & Bears in SE. It sounds like a gay nightclub, but its actually a Middle Eastern inspired food cart with a nice varied menu. Josh went with the traditional Falafel and Ron, Rory and myself had the Sabich, which is an Iraqi-Jewish traditional breakfast pita wrap of hummus, mango pickle puree, sliced hard boiled egg, diced onion, cucumber and pickles, cracked pepper, parsley and salad greens topped with tahini sauce and olive oil. It was creamy, full of flavor and just delicious, the perfect way to use an egg and the perfect start to the tour.

The second stop on the PDX FCT was the winner of Best Food Cart in Portland, the Peruvian food of La Sangucheria! Hands down my favorite cart yet in Portland. Josh and I both got the Chicharron, an enormously huge and tasty sandwich of deep fried pork, sweet potato fries, honey and onion sarza. If you're in Portland, you owe it to yourself to try this one on, plus the people watching is over-the-top entertaining around this part of downtown.

Dessert seemed appropriate to end the tour, as if there is ever an inappropriate time for sweets! The Pie Spot was a cart but has gone to a brick and mortar set-up, it was pouring out pretty good by this time so we spent almost an hour and a half here enjoying the sugar coma and the company under dry cover. I had a mini pie of chocolate and peanut butter and a lemon cranberry scone. Everyone seemed to enjoy what they got here, another tremendous food stop in PDX!

Thanks again to Josh, Ron (Train) & Rory for joining me, it was a real fun day and it was better because of you guys!