Tag: sandwich
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Judah’s Delicatessen
Judah’s Deli is a food cart in the Rose City Food Park at 5235 NE Sandy in Portland, OR. They specialize in East Coast Jewish-style deli items like Pastrami and Corned Beef sandwiches. Owners Nick and Fiona are always running the cart, and they have started leaning into some specialties from Nick’s Hungarian heritage like…
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Reopenings
This post is all about places that have reopened, either after a long hiatus or in a new location. First off is one of my favorite food carts, Sorbu Paninoteca. They closed at the end of 2025 and planned to take the winter off, which stretched all the way until this weekend when they opened…
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Best Things I Ate Last Week
OK let’s get right into it, the title says it all. First up is the featured image above, a special burger from Lone Star Burger Bar. “Paris Texas Deluxe” and fries. Double patty with chanterelles, Gruyère, onion and an au poivre steak sauce. It’s chanterelle season, which is one of my faves. This is one…
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BLTs & Summer Salads
Summer to me is fresh produce, especially heirloom tomatoes and fruit. Living in the Willamette Valley, we are so lucky to grow so much excellent produce. This summer really hit home for me how much I love heirloom tomatoes and how, moving forward, non-seasonal tomatoes just won’t do for me anymore! This year’s crop seemed…
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Wonderboy’s Smokestack
Wonderboy’s Smokestack is a food cart specializing in Midwestern BBQ. Located in the Alberta Carts at 1027 NE Alberta. Meat options include Brisket Burnt Ends, Pork Ribs, Pulled Pork, Smoked Chicken Thighs & Sausage Links. Sides include Potato Salad, Mac n Cheese, Coleslaw, Cornbread Muffin, Chips and Queso & Smoked Beans. The quality is high,…
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Favorite Eats of This Week
So many great eats this week! Let’s start it out with the plate lunch pictured above. Huli Huli chicken & Mahi Mahi, mac salad, coleslaw and rice from Mahi Taco. Mahi Taco is a food cart located in the Piedmont Station at 625 NE Killingsworth. They just celebrated their 10 year anniversary. Jeff makes what…
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Recent Faves
Here are the best things I ate in the last two weeks. Pictured above is a plate from Botto’s BBQ. Pork Belly Burnt Ends is their Saturday special, Spicy Mac & Coleslaw. Botto’s offers up some of the best BBQ in Portland. They have a really deep menu, all the meats and sides are stellar,…
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The Noshpit Sandwich Bar
A new addition to the Portland sandwich scene as of late 2025, the Noshpit is serving chopped sandwiches. Their motto is “Chopped, Toasted, Loud” and that comes through in their sandwiches. Located in the old Backyard Social space at 1914 N Killingsworth St, they are open Tuesday-Sunday. Chopped sandwiches were new to me until a…
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Desperados Sandwiches
Last month I stumbled across a food cart slinging classy and highly delicious sandwiches made on house made focaccia bread. Located at 7339 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd (just south of Lombard) at the “Park the Carts” food cart pod. I was visiting to check out Savage Soulfuleatz, a soul food cart which is…
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Basilisk
Basilisk is a “micro-restaurant” or “food stall” located in the Zipper on NE Sandy & 28th that serves the best fried chicken sandwich in town. Nobody ever came up with a good name for what to call this restaurant concept. “Micro-restaurant” was the original term back when they opened in 2016 and it was a…
