Spencer's Food Adventures

Tag: sandwich

  • BLTs & Summer Salads

    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…

  • Wonderboy’s Smokestack

    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,…

  • Favorite Eats of This Week

    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…

  • Recent Faves

    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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • New Restaurant Roundup

    In the last month I visited a number of new restaurants and food carts in Portland that are of note. They are either brand new or new within the last year or so. Two sandwich shops, soul food, burgers, and a Greek spot. Let’s get into it. Gabagool from Desperados Sandwiches. This is a cart…

  • New Sandwich Roundup

    This post is about my favorite new sandwiches in town, whether a new addition to the menu or a new sandwich shop. Four ones to talk about, let’s get into it. Smoked Chicken Salad Sando from HarBq. For those that don’t know, HarBq is a food cart posted up at Von Ebert Brewing in inner…

  • Picone’s Quality Deli

    This is a long overdue post about Picone’s, one of my favorite sandwich spots in town. For the past few years Vin Picone has been slinging some of the best deli-style sandwiches out of his cart in North Portland on Lombard. He makes his own bread in house (cart?), uses quality ingredients and runs daily…