Food Carts Archives - Bridgetown Bites

July 20, 2026July 23, 2026

2026 Portland Salad Week Restaurant Specials Are Here

Welcome to 2026 Portland Salad Week, one of our favorite annual traditions at Bridgetown Bites! It’s a chance to celebrate the incredible restaurants and small businesses that showcase the abundance of fresh, local produce our lovely state has to offer. And we’re excited to spotlight the 2026 Portland Salad Week restaurant specials for you to enjoy over the next five days.

At these restaurants you’ll find familiar favorites that have been with us from the beginning alongside some wonderful newcomers, each serving up a salad worth checking out. We hope you’ll discover a few new favorites and get out to experience them for yourself.

Many of these featured salads will be available during Salad Week: Monday, July 20 to Friday, July 24, while others will remain on menus longer, giving you more time to enjoy the season’s fresh flavors. A map of the participants can be found here.

July 10, 2026July 12, 2026

Small Bites: Ancestro Brunch Returns, Feast Utopia, Camp, and More

Ancestro brunch returns with delicious dishes like this with eggs, tortillas, filling, and mole. — You could eat brunch there this morning. Photo credit: Ancestro.

Ancestro brunch returns. As they said, “dinner is taking a little nap for now” (it may return periodically) and they are focusing on brunch at the moment. Head there—they are inside Commensal Fermentation—Thursday through Sunday from 9am to 1pm for their delicious brunch offerings. 3901 N Williams Avenue, Suite A, Portland

July 3, 2026July 2, 2026

Small Bites: Bridgetown Bites Is Nine, Cholados, and More

Bridgetown Bites is Nine. Happy birthday to Bridgetown Bites! Today is this blog’s 9th birthday. We’ve been reporting on the Portland food and drink scene since 2017—with an increased effort starting about two and a half years ago. But this whole time we’ve worked hard to showcase the range of eating and drinking options in Portland and the metro area, with an emphasis on independently owned businesses—restaurants, bakeries, convenience stores, CSAs and farmers markets, cafes, bars, food carts, and more.

June 30, 2026June 28, 2026

Woodstock Food Carts: Coming To Woodstock Blvd in Portland

Site of the Woodstock Food Carts on Woodstock Blvd. An empty lot, for now. — Location of a future food cart pod, the Woodstock Food Carts.

A new food cart pod is currently in the works for the Lents neighborhood. Called Woodstock Food Carts (AKA The Woodstock Switch), the pod would be on a property that until recently has a warehouse on it since 1904. Here is what we know.

June 26, 2026June 26, 2026

Small Bites: Grits N’ Gravy, Farag’s, Sure Shot, and More

Breakfast at Grits and Gravy. — Breakfast at Grits N’ Gravy is no more. Photo credit: Grits N’ Gravy.

Grits N’ Gravy has closed. (Not to be confused with Gravy on N Mississippi.) This was a breakfast spot downtown next door to Souvlaki Queen. At first they thought they could do one more breakfast but they “have been given no leeway.” In their words, “Times have gotten hard and business has been declining since last August. We held on for as long as we could but we can’t keep going.”