US News and World Report’s online travel magazine has just come out with their rankings of best food cart cities in world, and guess who came out on top?   The list reads like a dream round the world vacation including Vietnam, Turkey, Mexico, Germany, Morocco, Vietnam, and the good old USA.

Of course I wouldn’t be writing this if Portland hadn’t made the list, but the really cool thing is PORTLAND WON.  Naturally we who live here take our food carts for granted ( I just had spicy pork ramen from a Korean cart for $5.95), but this is a wake up call to get out and enjoy them even more!  (Maybe I’ll have a second lunch.)

Naturally our shop is within a block of several of them, with hundreds more within several more blocks.  And yes, several of our tours either go to carts or pass right by them, including Bites By Bike and  Historic Downtown.

Hats off to the city of Portland for lowering barriers to entry for the small business owners who start these carts, and of course the entrepreneurs themselves who bring us such a lively, delicious, varied and creative cart city!