Rose City Food Park

Decent Food Park. A little too quiet on Mondays.

Several great food carts and a nice seating area. The bagel place is particularly good. My main complaint is that this place never seems to be open. I’ve gone here numerous times to get dinner, but nearly everything was closed. Since I can’t count on it to be open during normal dinner hours, I just stopped going.

Great food and atmosphere, I definitely recommend. They also have a very nice beer garden, excellent beer as u wait for your food or dine in.

Really cool place to come to eat. There’s food carts with every choice of food you could want. Great prices and good parking and seating. Good place to bring the kids too! There are even public restrooms which is nice as well.

The bagel place. Get the bagels. Oh. And the gluten free Crepes. This place is legendary

Ok Guy Ferrrirer… I came for the Guam balls you so highly rated. Our palletes differ greatly on this one. No more Guam balls for me in my future, ever.
Thai trailer crab puffs 4.50 for three.
Thai Blossom blows these puffs away price, taste, quantity.
Not all that thrilled with this pod but I did agree with something on the wall…
I’ll swallow… if I love it.

Double corn tortilla tacos without a lot of fancy frippery. Not exactly Campeche street food quality, but just dang fine.
$ 3.25 for one breakfast chorizo (with egg, s/​cream, pico de gallo) and one carnitas (w/​pico de gallo) tacos. The hot sauce on the side was medium really, but roasty and delicious.
If the corn torts had been anywhere near homemade, I might have gone another star, but I also like my meat a bit greasier and this was a bit more like foodie special.
I believe my cart was El Guero. The service was fast and friendly!
There is a huge parking lot just a bit west of the park. You turn off Sandy Blvd on to a narrow side street/​alley to access.

We came here on Sunday at 10 AM for second breakfast:) my husband and I split a biscuit breakfast sandwich from GF chef. we should not have shared it — we both wanted our own by the end. There were only about four carts open at the time so not a lot of choice but it was slow and all seating was open.

Love love love this food cart pod! They just started serving beer and wine too. Great bagels, Thai, and others I need to try. Very kid friendly too.

This food park has a good variety of food carts to choose from. Whether you want a taco, banh mi, or lumpia, they got you covered. They boast that they are home to 13 of the best food carts in Portland. I’m not sure that’s true but I’ll review carts separately. This review is for the park.
This space is clean and well-​cared for. I saw folks actively cleaning up during the time I was there. There are plenty of disposal stations around the park. They had plenty of picnic tables to eat at (both covered and uncovered). Bathrooms? They have real bathrooms here that are very large and moderately clean.
This is a family friendly place. I visited on a Saturday afternoon and there were children all over the place, knocking things over, running around, and enjoying the food. A number of pre-​teens were simply standing around blocking walkways for no apparent reason. I tripped over a few smaller children. Overall, they like kids here.
You can park on the street or in a parking lot. Parking options is always nice when you are hungry and on the hunt for food.
A nice perk is the produce from Kruger’s Farm City Farm Market (I know, it’s one too many «farms» but that’s what they call it). I enjoyed grabbing a piece of fruit since I didn’t find a dessert I liked at any of the carts.
This is a nice food park. I’d visit again, provided the carts serve up good food.

Ive tried a few of the carts each time I went to ramys lamb shack they never had rice or they never had another item. The cooks prepared the food differently and each time the food got worse. The thai cuisine Cart is my favorite. The pdx cart has some yummy entrees. Tonight we went to the carts here and the entire food park was closed… according to the hours listed here on Unilocal it says they’re supposed to close at 10 pm and we arrived at 9pm

Heard about this park on diners drivein a and dives tv show. It’s a small lot with a dozen food trucks. Not much to look at, there’s only a small area to eat but it’s an experience. I’ll go back and eat many times. The food carts were multi-​cultural. We ate at the Guam Truck. Had the shrimp fritters! Fantastic. I want to try the Baken Bacon truck next.

Had the Gyros twice. Just moved here… awesome food. My kids said the Vietnamese food they ate was very yummy also. Still want to try the Bacon Truck! So… we WILL be back soon!

I love the crab puffs! And the lamb gyro was SO juicy…
The taco salad was pretty good too.

Good location, decent selection of food carts.
This is a neighborhood in which you can find lots of Vietnamese restaurants and chains. This pod of food carts is a nice little oasis of variety in an area that otherwise offers little in the way of culinary options.
Stopping short of reviewing each and every cart, I’ll just say that there are good options here and it’s worth stopping by.

I wrote a review of the Hillsdale Food Cart Pod as a model of spreading the food cart movement to more suburban environments and a wider population of eaters. Rose City joins that philosophy in providing a spacious and welcoming pod that can appeal to a broad audience.
This is a review of the pod and not the individual carts. You can read those as you like.
Portland has pods niched to lunchtime office workers, grab after work-​take home dinners, late night clubbers, weekend strollers, the brunch wait challenged, students and more. Some have beer and wine too. Some have impossible parking, challenging parking, bike parking and no parking. There are variations on waste handling from overflowing trash containers to well considered thinking about waste. Occasionally you will find music, and often you will find the neighbors have declared war on the music and won.
Rose City has a nicely «L» shaped layout. They have a leg fronting on busy Sandy, but almost all of the pod is behind the Sandy businesses and next to a nicely muralled retaining wall. For vehicles, the pod and some parking is accessible by a narrow street off Sandy.
Some of the carts have their own seating and there is common seating at picnic tables under canopies. The time I visited, there was a singer songwriter doing low volume covers under one canopy with seating.
Rose City has done one thing unique. Every vendor has committed to compostable or washable packing-​plating for eat-​there or take-​home. That means all the disposal is in one compost bin.
There is a cart with a barn structure licensed for beer and wine which can be consumed seated under any of the covered areas. There were about half a dozen micros available. That beer was served in washable plastic glasses.
I was struck on a Friday dinner time by the family-​friendly atmosphere, perhaps due to the proximity of the Laurelwood day care center nearby. Parentals and kidentals come from near and maybe far. And for those kidlets, it’s a great introduction to the possibilities for cart food.
Of the two carts I sampled, and perhaps a review awaits, I would not say the spices were strong. But maybe that’s what this pod wants to be.
I did visit the Kruger’s produce market and I have to laud it. I am a student of produce and I enjoy produce shopping. In Portland early August season, Krugers has a range of prices, but always excellent quality. Some prices are super bargains. Some are a little higher than cheaper competitors with huge market power. So I would recommend shopping at Krugers, who can never, and shouldn’t ever, try to beat loss leader produce sellers, but sometimes does!
Rose City is a well curated food cart pod that is family friendly and welcoming to everyone of any age who wants to experience Portland’s food cart culture.

The Sky can’t always be blue, but the blue wall keeps this food park bright in any given weather. But lets be honest, you aren’t going for the artwork.
This is a good pod that gets a lot of business from me based on the location, if it wasn’t so close I wouldn’t find myself here so often.
Here is the lowdown. They have about 10 carts ranging from «Meh» to «pretty damn good». So here they are:
Thai food — great price for some tasty thai
Burgers — I haven’t tried, but they look good
Soup & Grilled Cheese — I don’t know why I haven’t tried this cart, it seems awesome. I feel the grilled cheese cart trend is overblown, but every time I try one I eat my words.
Lamb Shack — All local farm raised lamb makes for a good Gyro. Not the best in town but worth trying. Fresh food and friendly people, a good combo.
Smoothies — Good variety of smoothies made by bike power. You can mix your own smoothie on the extra stationary bike if you want.
Bagels — They do some good bagel sandwiches, the eggs and meat are grilled to order, not made in a microwave, thats a win!
Chinese — Meh, maybe this category is just difficult to wow me. Super friendly owner though and good prices.
Italian — A lot of $ for not much
Mexican — Great breakfast burritos for $ 5! Do it!
Guam Food — Get a Fiesta plate, its awesome. They are only open from noon — 2pm and run out of items sometimes.

Good selection of food in one spot of #nepdx. You got Chinese, Italian, Thai, Mexican, Arabic, and in the back, a cart to get your sweet on.
I’ve been stuck on the Sausage and Peppers wedge from Dagostino’s; also the baked goods from Sugar Shop. Appreciate the tables, cause you’ll have to sit down a minute when the foodgasm hits, YEA I SAID IT! just enjoy that Sugar Shop Brownie, yea you baby, with the caramel sauce :)
It’s not up under the Hollywood MAX station, but you can’t say there weren’t enough options to choose from when you get there. It’s a good spot, coming across Sandy Blvd. (in the 50s) and wanting something to eat. Bike friendly, seen people with their dogs too, no issue.

I can’t remember all the names of the carts, but here is a quick review. Pad sa ew from the Thai place was good! Their crab puffs are stuffed full and tasty, but kind of greasy. Their Hurry My Curry sandwich is good, too. Thai cart prices are very reasonable.
The grilled cheese/​soup cart was good. Great sandwiches, but the soups are a tad on the bland side. A good compliment to the flavorful sandwiches though.
Now onto the Italian-​American spot. W… T…F? We got the antipasti for $ 8 and a soda for $ 1.50. Not an unreasonable price for this. Until we got home and opened the box. There was almost nothing in it! Freakin’ $ 8 for like 6 pieces of meat, ½ pieces of cheese and a sprinkling of generic jarred pickled veggies. Oh, and I think a couple of olives. Never again. We will not be back to this cart.
Overall, I’m excited for this spot. I’m sure the more I go back, the higher my ratings will go. Thanks for bringing this to my area!!! We were well overdue!

This food park is the first one in Portland to be 100% compostable– all of their vendors use containers that will actually break down in your compost bucket.
The vendors I have tried are great, but the park could have some more variety, nothing is way out of the ordinary.
Moberi has great smoothies made by bike-​power.
The Sugar Shop has some seriously delicious sweets at a fair price. Their pumpkin desserts are well balanced and not too sweet.
The location leaves something to be desired, but I am happy they transformed this ugly lot into a vibrant place.