A little buzz with your arepas
Here's an interesting liquor license application that we stumbled upon last evening. It adds beer, wine, and "occasional" live acoustic music to a new "food court" on a parking lot on SE Division Street between 32nd and 33rd Avenues. The property is apparently owned by one of the ADG entities, associated with Stan Amy, and the proposed operator is something called Captured by Porches Brewing, a mom-and-pop outfit from St. Helens.
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Comments (11)
I was just thinking this city could use some food carts!
Posted by Snards | October 15, 2010 10:05 AM
Mmmmm.... Beer carts...
Posted by zonedar | October 15, 2010 10:23 AM
I've been waiting for this for months. CbP is amazing beer, as you say, from a mom-and-pop brewery in St. Helens.
The have a green biodiesel bus that has keggerators in it and they'll go to events and sell growlers from it.
Now they'll have a regular parking spot and attached beer garden for it!
Posted by Andrew | October 15, 2010 10:45 AM
More info: http://pdx.eater.com/archives/2010/10/11/the-beer-cart-cometh-captured-by-porches-beer-bus.php#more
Posted by benschon | October 15, 2010 10:54 AM
Wow more food carts, Portland is becoming little Delhi third world capitol of the west coast.
Posted by John Benton | October 15, 2010 11:16 AM
Actually, food trucks are sweeping the nation. In LA, they will soon have the letter grades that other food establishments display on their windows. Wish Portland could bring THAT regulation here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/us/12trucks.html
Posted by PJB | October 15, 2010 11:28 AM
John Benton has clearly never eaten at a food cart. And clearly has no understanding of recession-time entrepreneurship.
Posted by Andrew | October 15, 2010 11:35 AM
Their beer is exceptionally good. They have been taking a low profile so far - I've seen their brew at farmers' markets and the like. Well worth trying their IPA.
Posted by Jim | October 15, 2010 11:35 AM
Oh how wrong you are, Andrew, food cart breath. I used to have my business downtown and ate from food carts on occasion. The prices weren’t that good and I always had that nagging feeling about where do those folks wash their hands, and where do they go to the bathroom. My employees who raved about them seemed to have a lot of days off with stomach disorders. Give me a break, happy hour at Jakes Grill and Jakes has better prices, better food, a place to sit down, friendly bartenders and great conversation. It is a free country and yeah go ahead and eat at the carts. I think you are stupid though.
Posted by John Benton | October 15, 2010 1:33 PM
Well New Delhi does have some excellent street food, John Benton, I'll give you that much. But I really can't eat lunch at Jake's Gril for happy hour prices, so I guess I'll have to stick to our choice of delicious street carts downtown. Been eating at carts almost every day for 5 years--never got any mysterious stomach ailments yet.
Posted by Tomas | October 15, 2010 8:59 PM
I am SO old that I remember Stan Amy from the student debate team at LO high school 45+ years ago!
Posted by Portland Native...traveling the USA | October 16, 2010 5:09 AM