Readers respond: Give vegan food carts their due

Getting reviewed your historic selections for “Portland’s ideal new food items carts of the previous decade — where are they now?” (April 28), I am dissatisfied by the lack of accolades paid to the astounding vegan food stuff vehicles scattered during the Portland place, this kind of as the earlier Dinger’s Deli on Belmont and the temporarily shut Supernova on Southeast 13th. Give some enjoy to these (virtually) considering outside the box in your future roundup.

Buddy’s Steaks in the Rose Town Food items Park is mobbed day by day with requests for plant-based mostly rooster cheesesteaks and undistinguishable-from-dairy homemade mozzarella sticks. The Mocking Bird in Beaverton serves up the most incredible cruelty-free of charge, plant-based mostly fried “chick’n” sandwiches (the Mac Daddy XL – an crazy double-fried chicken/mac and cheese/chipotle mayo monstrosity – need to be on everyone’s bucket record). Operator Kayla Jean not long ago transitioned from the Rose City Foodstuff Park truck website and purchased the previous brick-and-mortar cafe belonging to Household Grown Smoker, which is now open up with a fusion of the previous menu and her personal, this sort of as plant-primarily based hush puppies. Some of the newer trucks, including Chubby Bunny on Belmont and Charlie’s Breakfast Cart and The Groovy Floret in the Meals Park, provide up stellar breakfast sandwiches and taco salads. Not to mention Ditto on Alberta, Soiled Lettuce on Fremont, Planted PDX on Backyard garden Dwelling Road, and Prosper on Southeast Seventh. The 5-star assessments on Google and Yelp never lie. Unfold the love!

Alice D’Amore, Portland