Food Carts of Portland Bike Tour: local flavors and stories

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Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
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3 hours 30 minutes
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Number of Guests
1 - 12 guests
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English
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Experience the vibrant tastes and stories of Portland's renowned food carts on a bike tour. Explore local favorites on a small group journey, savoring unique culinary creations. Bikes and helmets included.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Portland’s famous food carts are scattered all over the city's five (now six) quadrants, over 600 in total, in over 60 pods — collections of food carts! Starting at our shop, 833 SE Main Street #124, we'll put you on one of our lightweight bicycles and guide you on a 8-12 mile (11-17 km) culinary experience through some of our best-loved chefs and makers, sampling everything from Oregon farm-to-table delights to snacks appropriate to late-night cravings.


Our focus is on locally-owned businesses with a great story; we’ll take you to a few of our favorites, many of which were important in creating the food cart scene as it exists today. Without these unique and passionate people, we may not have even half of what Portland offers to residents and guests alike. Expect flavors and fusions that tell not only a culinary, but also a cultural, tale. Bikes, helmets and plentiful food samples provided.


We keep groups small, so you'll have an intimate experience with your passionate guides!

What You Get

Use of helmet
Bottled water
Bicycle use
Use of bicycle
Tips (always appreciated)

Good To Know

  • Allergies and dietary requirements must be communicated at booking. We can accommodate the needs of vegetarians and pescatarians, but changes may be made to the itinerary for gluten-free, dairy-free, or vegan needs. We are sorry that peanut and other nut allergies cannot be safely accommodated.
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Public transportation options are available nearby

What You’ll Experience

1

Around Portland Tours

We'll start by fitting you for bikes at our shop at 833 SE Main Street #121, before we head out on the day's excursion.
10 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
2

Ladd's Addition

In the Ladd's Addition neighborhood is the heart of the original food cart scene and we'll set the scene by trying some of our favorite coffee and discussing our route for the day.
30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
3

Matt's BBQ Tacos

One of the most iconic sorts of food carts in Portland is a fusion between traditional cuisines. Matt's is one of the ultimate: take Southern US-style barbecue and place it in the best tacos anywhere. (For vegan and vegetarian guests, we'll choose a different but equally awesome first stop!)
30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
4

Mt. Tabor Park

In the neighborhood anyway! We'll ride up in the direction of Mt. Tabor (one of four extinct volcanoes within the city's core!) toward another food cart pod, this one the descendant of our dearest departed collections of food cart -- RIP Tidbit. Luckily the carts themselves live on, especially some fun and beautifully executed versions of favorite snacks from our childhood. These are made with sustainable ingredients, interesting and delicious flavor combinations, so we'll sample these and maybe we'll teach you a few new words, too!
30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
5

Hawthorne

Hawthorne Boulevard is part of our hometown story: the heart of all that's delicious, funky, and hippie, a thoroughfare with a street food soul! We'll ride into our personal and the city's foodie history (this goes back over a century!) and stop at a special coffee food cart made in a unique vehicle. Here we'll get some caffeinated beverage (if that's what you like) to begin our day!
30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
6

CARTOPIA FOOD CARTS

Well visit Cartopia or another nearby pod! Cartopia was the first-ever permanent food cart pod in the city. This one is the epicenter of the food cart craze. We'll talk about how the food cart explosion began (a story told uniquely by us) and visit either Cartopia or its next door neighbor, the Hawthorne Asylum.
10 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

833 SE Main St, Southeast Main Street, Multnomah County Oregon, United States, US, 97214

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Our shop is #124, in a silver and red building. If you're having trouble finding us, walk north on SE 9th Avenue from Main Street and look to your left! If you're looking for parking, you can find limited street parking and paid lots at 7th and Madison and 10th and Madison Streets
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

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Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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