Portland
Food carts, Pacific Northwest produce and seafood, and a long-running independent restaurant culture.
Portland made its name on food carts, and the pods scattered across the city remain the best value eating in the Pacific Northwest — low overheads let cooks specialise in one thing and do it properly.
The surrounding region supplies the rest. The Willamette Valley grows some of the best Pinot Noir outside Burgundy, the coast provides Dungeness crab, oysters and salmon, and the berry and hazelnut crops are genuinely exceptional in season.
The city’s independent restaurant culture runs deep, and the coffee and craft beer scenes were both early and remain strong. Portland State’s Saturday farmers’ market is the best single view of what the valley is producing that week.
Erik Wolf is the Executive Director of the World Food Travel Association. We spoke to him about the 2015 Foodworx Conference in Portland, Oregon.
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