Get to Know Oregon’s Foodie Places: Places To Eat

The newly opened Tasty n Alder has their brunch menu up (not open yet for dinner). I’ll be starting with the Bim Bap: Smaller Plates Chocolate Potato Doughnut with crème anglaise 1.5ea Baked Prunes with Taleggio?? 6 Toast & Jam??? with teleme cheese 5 Kyle’s Housemade Granola?? with cinnamon apples & sweet lebneh 6 ?Orange Marmalade Sweet Muffin? 4 Roasted Apple? with bacon lardons & cheddar 5 House Cottage Cheese & Jam? 6 Potatoes Bravas* ??with over easy eggs & aio

Quick & Dirty Location: SW Montgomery and Park Hours: daily, 8am-2pm The Story: Portland State has the luxury of the Portland Park Blocks that cut through the campus. Entrepreneurial food cart vendors know college students are hungry. Quick & Dirty knows they want bagels and coffee. Quick & Dirty is the work of Roy Parr who built a cool little cart with a Colman stove and serves up a quick morning snack. With bagels from Bowery Bagel and french press or pour-over coffee from 5 Points

Location: SW 9th and Washington Hours: Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm The Story: Soups and sandwiches are the mainstay of an American lunch. Think grilled cheese with tomato soup. We have some soup vendors and others with sandwiches and now Bread and Broth bring them together. Kenny worked in a cafe in San Diego for a few years and then at a cart here in town until venturing out on his own. Those experiences taught him the keys to simple, yet tasty dishes. Take the roast beef sandwich with horseradish mayo, g

Some tidbits of news from Portland’s street food scene: Trey Corkern of The Swamp Shack on SW 5th and Stark announced this week that he will be closing the cart and going fully mobile with a food truck. The Swamp Shack has been a mainstay on SW Stark for four years. Many loved the bayou feeling of the worn wood and moss. You have one last month to visit the cart and then you’ll need to find the truck (or book it for your next event.) __________ New Carts: Quick and Dirty – bag

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