Opening Soon: Yellow Line Food Cart Pod, Navigator Coffee, and Alma in Portland

A collage of Yellow Line Food Pod, Navigator Coffee Co. and Alma.

A few things have crossed my desk in the past few days that I wanted to tell you about. First, the grand opening of the Yellow Line Food Cart Pod in North Portland—a pod we haven’t covered here before—is this Friday.

Then to catch up with a couple of things we have covered: the opening of Navigator Coffee on Hayden Island on Saturday, and Alma PDX on NE MLK opens on Friday.

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Alma PDX, a New Balkan and Turkish Restaurant, Is Coming to NE Portland

Photo credit: Alma PDX

I recently became aware of a new restaurant called Alma PDX (not to be confused with Alma Chocolates), which will move into the old Masala Lab space when it vacates at the end of January. It looks to be a Balkan and Turkish restaurant, a cuisine that is less common in Portland than a lot of other places.

I’ve updated this article since it was initially published, but I’m still here to share with you the fruits of my additional research on Alma.

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